Proverbs 24:16 ‘for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.’

DAILY READING; 2 Corinthians 4, 2 Kings 17; Micah 6

It is amazing how Katherine Kuhlman was able to rise from the ashes of her failures to become one of the greatest evangelists of her generation.
She began preaching when she was 17 years and her ministry grew steadily until 1935, when at 28 years, she established the Denver Revival Tabernacle.
But Kathryn, compromised her convictions, when she began a relationship with an evangelist named Burroughs A. Waltrip and he eventually divorced his wife to marry her on October 18, 1938.
Soon after, Kathryn.realized the marriage was a mistake and would later say it was the single greatest regret of her life.
In the ensuing controversy, her congregation at the Denver Revival Tabernacle rejected her and within a short period of time, ministry invitations stopped as nobody wanted to do anything with her anymore.
In one occasion, Kathryn Kuhlman was preaching in a church in another town, when someone informed the pastor concerning her, and she was embarrassingly asked to leave.
Failure after failure followed her descent into obscurity during the six years that followed her marriage.
Finally one Saturday afternoon, while taking a walk, Katherine came to a dead-end street. Realizing that it was symbolic because her life had come to a dead end, there she surrendered all to God including her marriage.
After that, she walked away and never looked back. She bought a one-way ticket to Franklin, Pennsylvania and tried to start all over again.
Her life became like a grain of wheat that fell into the earth and died. But God resurrected her ministry, giving her a new beginning.
Even though Kathryn Kuhlman had been out of public ministry for almost 8 years, when she began again, the glory of the latter house surpassed the former.
Suddenly all the churches that rejected her, began to open their arms wide.
God restored her better and greater. The heavy presence of the Holy Spirit she carried led to amazing healings and strange miracles that accompanied her ministry till her death in 1976.

Truly, God is in the business of second chances. He can resurrect anyone who has come to a dead end in life, once they surrender to Him.
Many of us have disappointed God at some point, by abandoning His will only to end up in failure.
But every time you get to the darkest hour of your night God is able to give you another day!
It doesn’t matter how far you may have fallen or what you may have lost, through God’s help you can always bounce back, better and stronger.
Men may write you off, because of past mistakes; you could even have written yourself off because of past failures. But God’s grace is greater than our sins, faults and failures.
Therefore rather than sit in the ashes of past mistakes, we learn from it and make a fresh start. Life is too precious to waste any of it regretting the past.
At a time of doubt, fear and insecurity, when we feel alone and helpless, God’s grace is able to show up to offer us another chance.
As long as we confess our sins and failures, God is able to forgive us and make miracles out of our mistakes.

Today, perhaps, due to stepping out of God’s will, you have been beset with setbacks, if only you can retrace your steps and surrender all to God’s will, you are going to have an amazing comeback.
A knock down, only becomes a knock out, if you stay down and refuse to get up.
Proverbs 24:16 says that though the righteous may fall seven times, yet they will rise again.
Today, it doesn’t matter where you may have fallen, by God’s grace, you are getting right back up again!
God will not only give you the strength to bounce back, you are coming out better off than you were before!
In this resurrection season, there is healing, deliverance and restoration available through the Blood of Jesus.
Therefore, let us connect to the power of the Cross, to rise above past failures and begin to live the life of glory and power God has ordained for us.

PRAYER: Lord, I know you have so much in store for me, please enable me to put the past behind me and forge ahead into the glorious future of blessings You have planned for me in Jesus Name. .
QUOTE:
True success is not verifiable in the fact that a man has never fallen before but in the fact that he did not only fall but also got up. WORDBITE 222.