Psalm 37:23-24 “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the LORD upholds him with His hand”

DAILY READING – • Luke 8:1-25; Genesis 12; Psalm 6

In 1996, Kerri Strug was a tiny teenager with a shy personality. She was part of the US Women’s Olympic Gymnastics Team, made up of seven women, who came to be known as ‘the magnificent 7’.
In their final competition against the Russian team, for Kerri and her teammates, things were a bit shaky. They were performing well overall, but they had a few costly mistakes and injuries.
Then finally, came time for the last performance from the US team. This last performance was to be taken by Kerri Strug and it would decide the fate of her team. For her team to win the gold medal, she needed to get a near-perfect score.
Spectators held their breath as she began sprinting down the runway; She hit the vault, flipped in the air, but only to come crashing down in a fall. It was a disappointing performance. Her score was not enough to tip the scale in her team’s favor. But worse yet, she had injured her left ankle when she landed. Now unable to walk properly she was hobbling. Yet, she still had one more performance before the final score by the judges. Many people wondered if she would be able to perform that last vault.
As she sat on the edge of the mat with an ice pack on her ankle, it looked impossible that she could make another try. But to everyone’s surprise, she got up and hobbled to the judges, acknowledging that she was ready to take her last vault.
Her ankle and her head were throbbing, but she took a deep breath and said a prayer, “Please God help me make this vault.” Temporarily pushing her pain aside, Kerri once again began her sprint down the runway; she hit the vault, twisted in the air and made her landing without falling. She stood just long enough for it to be scored.
As the score flashed on the large board, the Americans went wild with jubilation. Kerry had hit a high score and the score had given the American team the desired victory. Despite her initial failure, Kerri had endured the excruciating pain of an injured ankle, to achieve an amazing performance. Though she had torn two ligaments in her left ankle and had to be carried and supported, yet her heroic effort had ensured that the American Woman’s Gymnastic Team won their first team gold medal ever! It would become one of the greatest Olympic moments of all time!

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. The worst failure of life is failure to try. Those who try again will often triumph at last.
Failure at some points is inevitable in life, what matters most is how you react to it. We can either choose to bounce back up and fight through the pain like Kerri or we can choose to lie on the floor and wallow in our pain.
We must understand that failure is not equals to defeat. Therefore don’t allow your failure to graduate to defeat. Arise and try to fight again. Never fold your hands if you don’t want life to fold up on you. No matter where you may have fallen, get up and keep moving forward.
We can take advantage of our failure by learning from what we have done wrong. If we have failed God, we need to seek for His forgiveness. We can always swim back to shore, helped by the incoming tide of God’s grace. We serve the God of a second chance, He is the God who prefers to mend rather than discard. God loves to restore the broken and brittle and then parade them before the world as trophies of His grace.
God’s commitment in Christ is to mend, heal and help us along the way, as we travel on this journey of life.

Psalm 37:23-24 says “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the LORD upholds him with His hand”

God upholds us by His mercy. He is able to keep us strong and standing tall, despite the temptations, trials, troubles and tribulations of life.
The righteous may fall, but he gets back up again, he doesn’t stay down, he rises up stronger.[Proverbs 24:16].
To succeed in life, you must be resilient.
The dictionary describes resilience as the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched.
When David said in Psalm 92 that the righteous will flourish like the Palm Tree, it means that despite the storms of life, they will survive, rise again, and keep prospering. That will surely be our story in this season.
Despite the storms, by God’s grace, we will keep rising better and stronger!

PRAYER: Father please help me to keep moving forward no matter what trials and temptations may come my way. May Your grace always be sufficient for me in Jesus Name.
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God is preparing you for the season He prepared for your breakthrough WORDBITE 222.