WEBVTT - Moving Beyond Failure -- Part 1 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:04.400 Discover how to move beyond failure on today's bold steps 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:05.320 with Mark Jo. 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.440 You're meant to live here, but you're living down here 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.799 and you don't want to ignore it. You want to say, 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:14.200 God can't use me. I'm I failed, I've blown it. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:16.840 I don't want to fail anymore. And so you revert 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.160 back to the basic things that you know, and even there, 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:24.799 you're unhappy and unsatisfied because you have a higher calling. 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.040 Welcome to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe. Mark is founding 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.599 pastor of New Life Community Church in Chicago. Well, we 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:46.800 know we can be the change in the world, and 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:48.800 we should be living on mission with a purpose and 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.960 on assignment. But Mark, you've never failed. I'm sure you've 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.160 never had a failure in your life. But most of us, 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.360 you know, we're kind of trapped by our past, aren't we? 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.760 Yeah. I mean, all of us, all of us know 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:04.240 the sting of failure. It's part of life. But, you know, 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:09.360 failure is a big issue when we allow our failure 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:14.200 to take us away from our calling. And in this account, 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.520 this message, you're going to see how Peter, when he 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.960 failed and we all know about Peter's failure, but he 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:21.880 went back to fishing. He had a higher calling than that, 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.920 but he went back to fishing. Nothing wrong with fishing, 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.839 but when you're called to be an apostle and lead 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.240 the early church, he went back to what was safe 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.360 because he had failed. And this is a powerful, powerful 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:39.600 account of how God and Jesus, in such a gentle 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.959 yet gracious way, leads Peter back to his calling. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.120 Actually, you're going to admit to a failure in your 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.120 life as you begin this message, aren't you? Yes, absolutely. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.720 I'm not going to let that go. All right. Here's 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:53.240 Mark Jobe with bold steps. 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:55.800 I remember when I was. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:02:00.600 In high school, my. Some of you know that my 0:02:00.690 --> 0:02:05.130 parents lived in Spain and in Spain. You can't really 0:02:05.130 --> 0:02:09.130 get your driver's license until you're 18 years old. And 0:02:09.130 --> 0:02:11.730 it's a pretty long process where you have to pay 0:02:11.730 --> 0:02:14.169 a lot of money and go through this long school 0:02:14.169 --> 0:02:18.250 driving process. Well, I was in the US visiting and 0:02:18.250 --> 0:02:21.970 I thought, hey, I don't want to wait till I'm 18. 0:02:21.970 --> 0:02:24.250 I was 16, I said, I want to get my 0:02:24.250 --> 0:02:27.609 driver's license here in the US because you can do 0:02:27.610 --> 0:02:31.290 it when you're younger. But I really hadn't practiced. And 0:02:31.290 --> 0:02:33.570 so I was trying to get my driver's license in 0:02:33.570 --> 0:02:38.690 a two week period. And so I went out with 0:02:38.690 --> 0:02:41.410 my mother. Wrong person to try to have you drive. 0:02:41.410 --> 0:02:46.730 If your mother's a little bit nervous around you. I 0:02:46.730 --> 0:02:49.370 think she probably had cramps in her leg because although 0:02:49.370 --> 0:02:53.010 she wasn't in the driver's seat, she kept going like this. Like. 0:02:56.730 --> 0:02:59.650 She was like hanging onto the steering wheel, going like 0:02:59.650 --> 0:03:02.050 this with her leg, Her hand on the dashboard. The 0:03:02.050 --> 0:03:05.329 whole time I was driving. I was like she was 0:03:05.330 --> 0:03:10.329 getting me nervous. You ever driven with someone that's really nervous? 0:03:10.330 --> 0:03:11.850 And it just kind of makes you a little bit 0:03:11.850 --> 0:03:16.130 more nervous and you drive worse because they're like, oh, stop. What? Who? Watch. 0:03:19.650 --> 0:03:22.010 Watch it. And they're like, jolted I stop what? Well, 0:03:22.010 --> 0:03:26.169 there's a car 50ft away. I know, mom, it's 50ft away. 0:03:28.970 --> 0:03:31.730 Needless to say, it wasn't a great experience. And her 0:03:31.730 --> 0:03:35.250 training me. So when I went to get my driver's license, 0:03:35.250 --> 0:03:39.610 the instructor got in the car and, um, he knew 0:03:39.650 --> 0:03:41.610 that I was trying to get my license and we 0:03:41.610 --> 0:03:44.530 lived overseas and so we went out to drive. I 0:03:44.530 --> 0:03:46.970 just didn't have enough experience. And so we got to 0:03:47.010 --> 0:03:52.850 a four way, a four way intersection. And I just figured, hey, 0:03:53.170 --> 0:03:57.370 I'm faster, I can go through. And, uh, I didn't 0:03:57.370 --> 0:04:00.090 really kind of get the whole concept of whoever gets 0:04:00.090 --> 0:04:03.460 there first. you have to stop and. And I just 0:04:03.460 --> 0:04:10.420 figured it's clear. Gun it. And, um. Well, I almost 0:04:10.420 --> 0:04:13.900 had another car crash into me. The driver instructor cut 0:04:13.900 --> 0:04:16.300 it pretty short, and he said, young man, you're not ready. 0:04:17.740 --> 0:04:19.820 So I walked away with my head kind of down, man, 0:04:19.820 --> 0:04:25.620 I failed. I remember them asking me, so what happened? 0:04:26.020 --> 0:04:31.299 I failed, didn't pass. Now have you talked to my wife? 0:04:31.580 --> 0:04:34.700 She she kind of thinks they still shouldn't pass me because, 0:04:34.740 --> 0:04:37.540 you know, she still thinks I'm not the greatest driver 0:04:37.540 --> 0:04:41.500 in the world. But everybody knows the feeling of failure, 0:04:41.500 --> 0:04:45.180 the feeling of doing something that you expect to succeed at, 0:04:45.180 --> 0:04:48.900 but you fail at. We all know that feeling, but 0:04:48.900 --> 0:04:54.500 there's greater areas of failure that than passing a driver's test. 0:04:55.260 --> 0:04:58.099 Sometimes it's failure. In our spiritual walk, where you really 0:04:58.100 --> 0:05:00.460 wanted to live for God and really wanted to walk 0:05:00.580 --> 0:05:05.380 with God and you find yourself tubing out, falling back 0:05:05.380 --> 0:05:08.220 to the same things that. Well, you vowed you would 0:05:08.220 --> 0:05:13.580 not fall back to. Maybe you're here and you've been 0:05:13.580 --> 0:05:18.860 through a devastating divorce and, well, it shattered your life. 0:05:18.860 --> 0:05:26.099 And you still are healing from the pain of difficulty, 0:05:26.140 --> 0:05:29.219 of a marriage that fell apart when you thought you 0:05:29.220 --> 0:05:33.780 had hope. Children that are caught between two parents that 0:05:33.779 --> 0:05:40.219 are just battling through a nasty divorce. Maybe you started 0:05:40.220 --> 0:05:43.220 off in your spiritual life and there was some addiction 0:05:43.220 --> 0:05:46.219 that you had overcome, and you had a good track 0:05:46.220 --> 0:05:49.860 record for a while, but, well, something happened at work 0:05:49.860 --> 0:05:53.339 that got you really stressed out and the tension was 0:05:53.339 --> 0:05:57.300 building and your mind started reverting to that old addiction 0:05:57.300 --> 0:05:59.980 that you always used to go to. And before you 0:06:00.020 --> 0:06:03.029 know it, you fell back into the old pattern and 0:06:04.230 --> 0:06:06.750 you had done so well for a while, but you 0:06:06.750 --> 0:06:12.790 fell back and you feel like you failed. Maybe you 0:06:12.830 --> 0:06:15.590 made a commitment before God, or vows before God that 0:06:15.589 --> 0:06:21.990 you were trying to keep relating to your purity, and 0:06:21.990 --> 0:06:27.630 you broke those vows and fell. You see, we all 0:06:27.630 --> 0:06:31.430 understand what it means to fail at one point or 0:06:31.430 --> 0:06:34.190 another in our life. And this is really about how 0:06:34.190 --> 0:06:37.109 to overcome failure and move past failure, because I find 0:06:37.150 --> 0:06:42.750 people that, well, they've fallen and they failed, but they 0:06:42.790 --> 0:06:46.309 camp out in the valley of failure and never move 0:06:46.310 --> 0:06:51.110 on beyond it. I know people that allow their failure 0:06:52.029 --> 0:06:57.349 to dictate where they live in life. Their failure determines 0:06:58.830 --> 0:07:02.110 where they're camped out And rather than it being a 0:07:02.150 --> 0:07:10.830 season of failure, it becomes a lifestyle of failure. Peter 0:07:10.830 --> 0:07:20.030 the apostle Peter, he was an impulsive, gregarious. All the 0:07:20.030 --> 0:07:23.630 way in guy. He would speak sometimes before he would 0:07:23.630 --> 0:07:27.190 think about what he was saying. Uh, Peter was the 0:07:27.190 --> 0:07:33.190 one that. Said to Jesus, you. You are the Son 0:07:33.190 --> 0:07:39.870 of God. Jesus said, blessed are you, Peter, for flesh 0:07:39.870 --> 0:07:41.990 and blood has not revealed that to you, but the 0:07:41.990 --> 0:07:45.430 Spirit of God. And then a few minutes later, Jesus 0:07:45.470 --> 0:07:50.190 is saying to Peter, get thee behind me, Satan. Peter 0:07:50.190 --> 0:07:53.230 is one of these guys. That's all in, all out. Excited. 0:07:53.350 --> 0:07:55.630 He's the one that jumped out of the boat and 0:07:55.870 --> 0:07:58.750 and tried to walk on the water and said, yes, 0:07:58.750 --> 0:08:00.720 I want to do it. And got out there. And 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.560 then when he's halfway out there, he says, what am 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.640 I doing? And starts to drown. He's the one that says, Jesus, 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.840 even though everybody else will forsake you, I'm not going 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:17.320 to forsake you. And then denied Jesus three times. Peter 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.800 had been through one of the biggest failures of his life. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.400 He was one of Jesus inner core leaders, one of 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.280 the three people of the inner core, Peter, James and John. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.800 He had been to the mountain of Transfiguration. He had 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.640 been in that room when Jesus only brought a couple 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.680 of his disciples and seen Jesus raise the little girl 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.920 from the dead. He had been close to. Jesus walked. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:45.359 He was considered one of those strong, faithful followers of Jesus. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.599 Yet when the time came for him to be tested, 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.360 when Jesus was arrested in the garden, do you remember 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.520 what Peter did? He took out the sword and tried 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.960 to defend Jesus, cut off the ear of one of 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.880 the soldiers. Jesus healed that soldier right there. And then 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:05.040 Peter went from this super big defender of Jesus to 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:10.920 hiding in the corner. And when time came, he did 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:16.280 what Jesus had predicted he would do. He denied his Savior, 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:21.960 his Lord, three times. The final time he cursed and said, 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:26.440 I don't know that man. And the Bible says that 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:34.000 he heard the rooster crow. And then he wept bitterly 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:39.440 because he realized I failed. Who? I thought I was 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:44.680 that strong spiritual leader. I'm not that person that would 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:49.000 give his life for Jesus and be martyred. But when 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.280 it came down to the moment, I was full of 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:59.360 fear and selfishness and I looked at myself. Even though 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.850 Jesus had risen from the grave, even though he had 0:10:03.490 --> 0:10:07.650 already appeared to his disciples, Peter felt like a failure. 0:10:09.929 --> 0:10:18.650 In John chapter 21, we see the story. Of Peter 0:10:19.370 --> 0:10:26.130 after his failure. And I'm going to begin reading in 0:10:26.410 --> 0:10:29.530 verse one of John 21. It says, After Jesus appeared 0:10:29.530 --> 0:10:34.170 again to his disciples by the Sea of Galilee. I 0:10:34.170 --> 0:10:36.290 want you to notice that Peter had gone back to 0:10:36.330 --> 0:10:40.410 what he knew for three years. He had followed Jesus. 0:10:41.490 --> 0:10:46.050 He had healed. He had preached. He had seen miracles 0:10:46.050 --> 0:10:51.010 happen through his hand. But now he felt like a failure. 0:10:52.130 --> 0:10:55.610 He felt like someone who was on a course, but 0:10:55.610 --> 0:10:59.770 he had derailed. And like most failures, we start seeing 0:10:59.890 --> 0:11:02.650 ourselves different. You look at yourself in the mirror and 0:11:02.650 --> 0:11:05.209 you don't see that person anymore that you used to see. 0:11:05.250 --> 0:11:12.490 Now you see someone stained, someone broken, someone of less value. 0:11:14.050 --> 0:11:16.370 And you see the way you see yourself determines how 0:11:16.370 --> 0:11:20.490 you act. The way you view yourself determines the way 0:11:20.490 --> 0:11:23.210 you live, the way you talk, the decisions that you make. 0:11:24.250 --> 0:11:27.290 Peter no longer saw himself as this great follower of Jesus, 0:11:27.290 --> 0:11:31.490 this great evangelist. Now he saw himself well as someone 0:11:31.490 --> 0:11:36.370 that had a great chance but had failed God. Someone 0:11:36.370 --> 0:11:40.650 who had denied the Savior. Someone who was living with 0:11:40.650 --> 0:11:48.450 the guilt, the shame, the remorse of having failed. And 0:11:48.450 --> 0:11:51.130 so Peter goes back to, well, he goes back to 0:11:51.170 --> 0:11:55.530 what he knew in his former life before he met Jesus, 0:11:56.130 --> 0:11:59.490 before he met Jesus, he was a fisherman. You know, 0:11:59.530 --> 0:12:02.740 a lot of us go back to the places that 0:12:02.740 --> 0:12:05.260 we last known. Success when we failed. 0:12:12.580 --> 0:12:16.059 Today's message, moving beyond failure will continue here on Bold 0:12:16.059 --> 0:12:18.660 Steps with Mark Jobe in just a moment. Mark, we 0:12:18.660 --> 0:12:21.220 want to encourage our listeners to tell us their bold 0:12:21.220 --> 0:12:24.140 stories of faith. You can go to our website, Bold steps.org. 0:12:24.179 --> 0:12:26.460 And on the left side there you'll find a tab 0:12:26.460 --> 0:12:29.220 that says Be Bold Stories. We'd love to hear your story. 0:12:29.220 --> 0:12:31.820 Here's one from Jonathan. Mark I'd like to share with you. 0:12:31.820 --> 0:12:33.540 A few years ago, I was able to start my 0:12:33.540 --> 0:12:36.180 dream job of starting a lawn business here in Florida. 0:12:36.380 --> 0:12:38.380 So now I listen to Doctor Jobe and talked to 0:12:38.420 --> 0:12:41.179 and pray with customers and neighbors. 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All right, 0:14:25.910 --> 0:14:29.390 let's move beyond failure now as Mark continues today's message. 0:14:35.310 --> 0:14:38.390 I run into 40 year old men that, well, they 0:14:38.390 --> 0:14:40.310 just want to talk about their days in high school, 0:14:40.310 --> 0:14:45.030 where they were captain of the football team, because that's 0:14:45.030 --> 0:14:50.790 when they felt like they had succeeded. That's when life 0:14:50.790 --> 0:14:55.390 was good. That's when they were popular. That's when people 0:14:55.390 --> 0:14:58.470 looked at them and said, whoa, that's when the girls 0:14:58.470 --> 0:15:02.320 wanted to be with that person. That's when then they 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:06.720 walked into the high school campus. Uh, they felt like 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.960 I'm a somebody, but now they're 40 year old. They 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:14.560 got a little bit of a belly. Life hasn't turned out. 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.040 No one's looking at him like, yeah, you're a winner now. 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.440 Now they just feel a little bit like I failed. 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.360 I've messed up in my job and my family and 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.080 my kids, and maybe I haven't succeeded in the way 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.720 that I thought I was going to succeed in life 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.440 hasn't turned out the way I wanted to succeed. So 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.760 they revert back to the days of their high school 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.400 popular days. And so they want to hang out at 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.240 the class reunion. They want to talk about the good 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.680 old days. They spend time hanging out when life was 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:49.600 simple and easy and they they were winners. They revert 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:53.920 to the last place where they felt like a success. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:59.960 I've seen that happen all the time. Peter was doing that. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.440 You see, before he met Jesus, he was a fisherman 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.880 and he was fairly successful at fishing. That's what he knew. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.640 That's his trade. Now, post Jesus after failure, he goes 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.680 back to the thing that he knows where he felt like. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.600 At least I was successful at this. At least I 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.920 felt like I was a winner when I used to 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:28.520 do this. And so Jesus Re-encounters Peter fishing. I want 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:35.600 you to remember, first of all, that my life defining 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.000 moments of failure and sin can be reset to life 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:44.880 defining moments of restoration and grace that redirect the course 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:51.000 of my life. Jot this down. I move beyond failure 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.760 when I stop running from my mistakes and instead I 0:16:53.760 --> 0:17:01.720 move towards Jesus. Peter's out fishing. Seven of the disciples 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:06.639 have actually gone with Peter. It tells us in verse one. Afterwards, 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.120 Jesus appeared again to his disciples by the Sea of Galilee. 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:16.840 It happened this way. Simon Peter Thomas, also known as Didymus, 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.480 Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:24.680 two other disciples were together, seven disciples all together. I'm 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.680 going out to fish, Simon Peter told them, and they said, 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.440 we'll go with you. So they went out and got 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:35.080 into a boat. But that night they caught nothing. Early 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.760 in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore. But the 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.600 disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. He called 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:46.960 out to them, friends, haven't you any fish? No, they answered. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.720 He said, throw your net on the right side of 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:53.399 the boat, and you will find some. When they did 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.479 they were unable to haul the net in because of 0:17:56.480 --> 0:18:01.970 the large number of fish. Then the disciple whom Jesus 0:18:01.970 --> 0:18:07.369 loved said to Peter, it's the Lord. And as soon 0:18:07.369 --> 0:18:09.450 as Simon Peter heard him say, it's the Lord, he 0:18:09.450 --> 0:18:12.410 wrapped his outer garment around him, for he had taken 0:18:12.410 --> 0:18:14.730 it off and jumped into the water. And the other 0:18:14.730 --> 0:18:18.010 disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish, 0:18:18.010 --> 0:18:22.930 for they were far from shore about a hundred yards. 0:18:23.930 --> 0:18:27.890 When they landed they saw a fire burning coals there 0:18:28.290 --> 0:18:32.530 with fish on it and some bread. Peter has gone 0:18:32.530 --> 0:18:35.530 out to the last place that he's known success at, 0:18:35.930 --> 0:18:40.810 and he goes back to fishing. In Matthew chapter 26, 0:18:40.850 --> 0:18:45.890 33 through 44 and 69 through 75, you see Peter's denial. 0:18:46.130 --> 0:18:48.650 He's feeling like a failure. So he goes back to 0:18:48.690 --> 0:18:51.490 fishing that he knows well. He finds some comfort in 0:18:51.490 --> 0:18:54.609 doing something that he's successful at. But I want you 0:18:54.609 --> 0:18:58.410 to notice that Peters. Peters calling is bigger than fishing, 0:18:59.420 --> 0:19:02.379 But he goes back to, well, he goes back to 0:19:02.420 --> 0:19:08.419 normal living because he feels I'm no longer qualified, capable 0:19:09.260 --> 0:19:13.540 or worthy to be used of God. Oh, did you 0:19:13.540 --> 0:19:19.220 just hear me? He goes back to normal living because 0:19:19.220 --> 0:19:22.940 he feels like he's disqualified himself from being used of 0:19:22.940 --> 0:19:28.820 God because he feels like a failure. This is the 0:19:28.820 --> 0:19:32.780 Peter that has actually prayed for people and their eyes 0:19:32.780 --> 0:19:37.140 have opened. He's prayed for people and the lame have walked. 0:19:37.300 --> 0:19:42.020 He's cast out demons. He's preached to crowds. He's been 0:19:42.020 --> 0:19:45.580 used mightily of God, and now he's not doing any 0:19:45.580 --> 0:19:50.660 of that anymore. He's not preaching. He's not speaking. He's 0:19:50.660 --> 0:19:55.060 not praying. He's not leading. He hasn't really no big 0:19:55.060 --> 0:19:57.700 vision for himself. All he wants to do is fish. 0:19:58.500 --> 0:20:01.980 That's what he's doing now. He's become a fisherman because 0:20:01.980 --> 0:20:04.700 he feels like I'm no longer qualified for this. And 0:20:04.700 --> 0:20:07.340 he he's living life with his head down. Oh, he 0:20:07.340 --> 0:20:10.139 hasn't rejected Jesus. He's not saying, I'm not going to 0:20:10.140 --> 0:20:13.380 follow him, but he no longer has a vision mission 0:20:13.380 --> 0:20:17.740 for his life, because what lingers over his head is 0:20:17.740 --> 0:20:23.820 a sense of failure. He's out there fishing with the 0:20:23.820 --> 0:20:27.820 other disciples. John is one of them who's writing the 0:20:27.820 --> 0:20:32.980 story and the very thing. Wow. The very thing that 0:20:32.980 --> 0:20:36.460 he goes back to be a success at. Now he 0:20:36.460 --> 0:20:41.180 can't even do that. Well, he can't even fish. Well, 0:20:41.980 --> 0:20:45.700 they spent all night fishing and they haven't even caught 0:20:45.700 --> 0:20:51.340 one fish. So now he's feeling even worse. More lousy. 0:20:52.700 --> 0:20:54.420 How many of you know that when you're called on 0:20:54.420 --> 0:20:58.139 mission with God, sometimes you you revert to plan B 0:20:58.300 --> 0:21:01.460 or plan C, but if you revert to what is 0:21:01.460 --> 0:21:05.860 not your call and mission, not even that will satisfy you. 0:21:07.900 --> 0:21:11.340 Some of you have tried to give up on following 0:21:11.340 --> 0:21:13.660 God and being used of God, because you feel like 0:21:13.660 --> 0:21:16.420 a failure and you revert to plan B and you say, well, 0:21:16.420 --> 0:21:17.780 all I'm going to do is I'm just going to 0:21:17.780 --> 0:21:20.699 do this and you do it, but you're unhappy doing 0:21:20.700 --> 0:21:25.340 it because you know you have a bigger call. There's 0:21:25.340 --> 0:21:29.380 a bigger purpose for your life. You're meant to live here, 0:21:29.380 --> 0:21:32.660 but you're living down here and you want to ignore it. 0:21:32.660 --> 0:21:35.540 You want to say, God can't use me. I'm I failed, 0:21:35.540 --> 0:21:38.380 I've blown it. I might as well just. I'm just 0:21:38.380 --> 0:21:41.580 going to live. Just try to make a living. Just 0:21:41.780 --> 0:21:45.220 not try to do anything for God. I don't want 0:21:45.260 --> 0:21:48.180 to fail anymore. And so you revert back to the 0:21:48.180 --> 0:21:51.300 basic things that you know, and even there, you're unhappy 0:21:51.300 --> 0:21:59.300 and unsatisfied because you have a higher calling. Peter's fishing 0:21:59.390 --> 0:22:02.510 all night. He's tired. And then on the shore there's 0:22:02.550 --> 0:22:04.710 a figure out there. They can't really see who it is, 0:22:04.710 --> 0:22:10.230 but it calls out and says, hey, how's the fishing going? Lousy. 0:22:12.550 --> 0:22:15.270 And then the figure on the shore says, cast your 0:22:15.270 --> 0:22:19.270 nets to the right side. I'm sure they're like, yeah, right. 0:22:20.590 --> 0:22:29.590 Who's this dude? Always armchair captains, but but but they're 0:22:29.590 --> 0:22:31.910 so desperate. They do it anyways. Hey, what's it going 0:22:31.910 --> 0:22:33.750 to hurt? So they cast their nets on the other 0:22:33.750 --> 0:22:36.950 side and something amazing starts to happen. They cast their 0:22:36.950 --> 0:22:40.109 nets on the other side and the net starts to 0:22:40.150 --> 0:22:42.030 get weighed down. One of them says, hey, I think 0:22:42.070 --> 0:22:44.550 our net net is stuck on something. No, no, let's 0:22:44.550 --> 0:22:46.389 pull it up. And as they try to pull it up, 0:22:46.630 --> 0:22:50.030 they are almost unable to pull it up because there's 0:22:50.030 --> 0:22:52.470 so many fish they're. 0:22:58.310 --> 0:23:03.310 Moving forward beyond failure by moving towards Jesus. You're listening 0:23:03.310 --> 0:23:05.150 to the Bible teaching of Mark Jobe, and this is 0:23:05.150 --> 0:23:07.790 bold steps. If you've missed any of the messages in 0:23:07.790 --> 0:23:10.150 this series on Breaking Free What It Means to Walk 0:23:10.190 --> 0:23:12.629 Tall Again, you can listen online when you go to 0:23:12.670 --> 0:23:15.669 bold steps.org. You can also share it with someone who 0:23:15.670 --> 0:23:18.670 may need to hear this timely and encouraging word. And 0:23:18.670 --> 0:23:20.950 then don't forget, you can always catch Mark's teaching no 0:23:20.950 --> 0:23:23.470 matter where you are, by downloading the Bold Steps app 0:23:23.470 --> 0:23:26.270 to your favorite smart device. 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