How many you got children when your children were babies they crawled around
and then one day miraculously for the first time ever they stood up on their own two feet
what was the exact next thing they did fell down but not one of you said oh stay there baby
did you what did you say get up come to mommy come to daddy and baby get up and fall down
he said do it again and take a few steps get up fall down and you say do it again
now sometimes the baby fell on their backsides but sometimes the baby fell on their face and
you not only allow them to fall on their face you encouraged them to do it again
because you knew if they never fell and got up they never learned how to walk
they never fell and got up they never learned how to run they never fell and got up they never
learned how to maximize their potential but some of us in this room today have fallen down
or we've been knocked down and life has not been fair and we've stayed in that down position and
I'm saying to you today it's time to get up and fly like you were born to fly a setback is nothing
but a set up for a comeback no doubt there are many people in this room and you need comeback
it could be in your family it could be physically it could involve the area of finances there are
some here today and you need a relational comeback some need an emotional comeback maybe it's a habit
or an addiction you need to break and you've tried and you don't have the power and you don't have
the ability and you need a comeback maybe there are some of you and you've been told you're not
going to make it you can't make it there's a God who can bring about a comeback God is planning
your comeback he's planning your comeback no matter how pessimistic no matter how negative it
looks today you're going to come back it's a time of the comeback it's time to get up off the mat
if you've been knocked down if you've been through something if you've been through
financial setback or some kind of terrible thing has hit you in your health and or or something's
happened to your family we need to believe that it's time for a comeback it's no time to quit
it's no time to give up it's no time to moan and groan I'll bring you out with great substance
they're not just going to come back but they're going to pick up stuff through the experience that
they go through that I'll turn around and use for my glory they're coming back with great substance
we may be down but we're not out because we serve a comeback God and I want you to know the
attitude of our God is I'm not going to give up on anybody the power of the Holy Spirit I I preached
it when I'm on top of the world and I preached it when I've hit rock bottom and I still believe
that I serve a God who can give every family a comeback every marriage a comeback every situation
every drug addict every alcoholic you can have a comeback you've been through hell
you messed up you did something you shouldn't have done it's time for a comeback at the scent
of water the bible said there is a river whose streams shall make glad again that's the river of
the Holy Spirit and if you can get a sin of that river while I'm preaching God can orchestrate your
comeback there's a river flowing that the dead can come to life again the out can get in again
well I had the chance and I blew it well this is your comeback and the out can get in again
the down can get up again the depressed can dance again it's time for a comeback with feeling sorry
for yourself with having a pity party you've heard me tell you when you have a pity party nobody
brings gifts and nobody shows up but the devil he's the only one who wants to come
so what do you do you grab hold of the promises of God and say you know what I wish I wouldn't have
gone through that but I'm coming out with great substance I'm coming out with something I didn't
have and I'm going to know how to be used even greater of God because everything I went through
God is a God that makes a way of return a comeback and it's time for you to experience the spirit
of a comeback Babe Ruth struck out 1330 times he also hit 714 home runs but he failed almost twice
as much as he succeeded and on and on we can go reminding ourselves of comeback stories I hope
that you have a comeback in Christ today as a pastor I deal with defeat in people's lives
constantly people who are walking through pain and struggle and defeat and discouragement and
yes failure we all experience failure in life now if you are in Christ you are not a failure
you may fail but we are more than conquerors through him who loved us amen we are victors not
victims and we have the opportunity always when we fail to come back when we lose to get up again
and get going that if you are not dead you're not done if you are still breathing there is a life to
be lived a purpose in your life to be fulfilled in Christ you can rebound you can recover you can be
restored because what I want you to hear today is that it's never too late for a new beginning
never too late for a new beginning so don't stare at the past don't live your life looking through
the rearview mirror that's dangerous it's okay to glance at your rear view mirror know what's
going on to your side or behind you but don't try to drive your car looking through your rear view
mirror look through the big screen the windshield it's a lot bigger and hopefully a lot better
going forward we glance at the past but we gaze at our future and our future is in Christ I love
this particular Proverb Proverbs 24:16 it says though the righteous fall seven times
they rise again but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes it's isn't this exciting
though the righteous fall seven times they rise again and we focus on they rise again but before
I focus on that I start focusing on the part right before that the righteous are going to fall
and not just once here he says seven times but it's worse than you think
because if you know anything about the bible and the way the bible uses numbers
the number seven is a number that's used not only when it's a number of completion it's a number of
infinite capacity so when it says the righteous fall seven times he's not saying the righteous
fall seven times he says the righteous fall and they fall and they fall and they fall and they
fall and they fall and they fall and they fall and they fall and they will fall so many times
you will not be able to count how many times the righteous fall God's expecting you to fall and to
fail and to lose and to mess up see if you entrust your life to God that if you choose to follow
Jesus here's a promise you're going to fall not just once not just twice not just six or seven
times it's just going to become a part of your life so get used to it but they rise again see
the difference between the resilient and those who lack resilience is not whether they fail or not
it's actually the differential of one it's not the differential of one thousand it's not the
differential of one hundred or ten it's just a differential of one it doesn't matter how many
times you fall you just gotta get up one more time than you fell or no matter how
many times you fall you get up no matter how many times you lose you get back in the game
see you're not defined by your failures you're not defined by your losses you're not defined by what
has caused you to fall unless you stay there when you get up you're now defined by what you overcame
not what overtook you the mercies of God are renewed every morning God gives you a blank sheet
every day for a new start no one in this room is perfect we can live our life without regret we can
live our life without limitation by the power of the Holy Spirit without the frustration of
what might have been if only you need to walk out of your emotional financial marital grave you need
to live love laugh and be happy it's time for your comeback your life can be an exciting victorious
triumphant life if you have failed and we all have failed but maybe you're sitting in the middle of a
failure right now maybe you're at a time in your life where you are down and nearly out you want
to quit you want to run away maybe even you're thinking about going back to your old life
go back to the old friends go back to the old clubs go back to the old junk
because you fail so much you think I just can't well guess what you can't do it but the power
of Christ will restore you and redeem you and renew you and it is because of his cross and
the resurrection the power of Jesus Christ that we can be forgiven and renewed and restored the
love of Christ that changes everything you can't come back without the father he loves you and all
he's waiting on is you in this service right now to turn to him and you can have a comeback