adversity, challenges, and heart aches, well they're difficult for all of us, but I think

you'd agree that the hardest situation to overcome is personal failure, when you fail as a spouse or a coworker,

when you fail friends or parents,

when you do something that in your heart of heart,

you know, I didn't want to do that,

I didn't mean to do that I didn't mean to do that and you just flat fail. What then? What do you do?

Well if that's you stick around. God has encouragement for you today.

Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are a discipleship driven ministry on a mission to encourage Christians everywhere to live

like Christians. Thanks for joining us as we near the end of our series keep pressing

ahead. Over the past several programs we've talked about how to face and overcome discouragement,

opposition, and tough times. But as Chip just said, few hurts in life are as devastating as

personal failure. So today we'll learn how to pursue restoration and

why with God failure is never final. So if you're ready go in your Bibles to

Nehemiah Chapter 8 as we join Chip for his message facing personal failure.

I want to talk to you about the adversity that comes through personal failure.

The emotional pain, the spiritual pain, the relational pain, the distance from God, the guilt,

the shame. When you know what's right to do and you don't do it, when God speaks

very clearly and says, this is something you shouldn't do and you do it anyway.

When you're in that journey and we're all, you know,

some of the greatest people in scripture

have made devastating steps of personal failure.

And no one's immune.

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