Embrace Failure: Turning Setbacks into Growth

23 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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The speaker uses David and Goliath to argue that believing in a promise isn't enough: you have to gather stones, load the sling, and actually confront the giant. He spent years retreating from failure, calling setbacks "not my time," until he realized failure refines character and reveals God's nature.

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But there has to be a point where you receive a word and you partner with it. Just because something was spoken over you doesn't mean that it's gonna automatically happen or fall in your lap. I think of, you know, David. David is assured that he's gonna kill Goliath, but he still has to get the stones. He still has to put 'em in his slingshot. He still has to show up and throw it at the giant. So there is some activity that you can partake in now. And don't be afraid to fail. This is a touchy subject for me. So when I would go through failure, I would just hide away. It was easy for me to hermit away and to be by myself and just say, "You know what? It's not my time yet. There's more things I need to learn." And I completely wrote off the experience of failure. In my mind, it's, "I should have never even tried that." What I'm learning now is there's so much about His nature and about my character that evolves through those failures. So don't be afraid to walk through a couple of them.