Receiving God’s Best---Even When You Fail

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose…

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It isChrist who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Are there Biblical examples of God using our failures and turning them into His greatest blessings?

Does He even make our mistakes prosper?

We killed Perfect Love, and He responded with forgiveness and used it to reconcile creation to Himself. 2 Cor 5:19

Romans 5:20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

How About the 5 women listed in Jesus lineage in Matthew 1. The Law would have disqualified them…But God made all things work together for good in His master plan. For their shame, they received double honor.

Tamar – disguised as prostitute and had a child with her father-in-law JudahRahab the harlotRuth – a gentile and disqualified as a MoabiteBathsheba – David committed adultery with her Mary

Acts 22:19 So I said, ‘Lord, they know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and beat those who believe on You. 20 And when the blood of Your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by consenting to his death, and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.’

Acts22:12 “Then a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good testimony with all the Jews who dwelt there, 13 came to me; and he stood and said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight.’ And at that same hour I looked up at him. 14 Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice of His mouth. 15 For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Get your hopes up…He makes all things work together for our good---even our mistakes.

He is for you, no matter how bad things might seem, no matter how impossible and hopeless the situation looks…

God will manifest Himself in ways you never thought possible. He is for you…so nothing can be against you.