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Try Again
by Steve May
Text: Proverbs 24:16
Topic: Why try again after failure
Big Idea: The key to success is your willingness to try again.
Keywords: Success; Perseverance; Failure
Introduction:
- Big Idea: The key to success is your willingness to try again.
- Illustration: May lists the extensive record of failures accumulated by Abraham Lincoln before being elected President.
- Proverbs 24:16
- Illustration: May lists three pieces of evidence to support that great success most often comes to those that have first failed: a study of historical heroes, the testimony of doctors regarding those who try to quit smoking, and May's personal testimony of his experiences with failure.
Try again, because God believes in you.
- Philippians 1:6
- God is determined to finish what he started in you.
- Illustration: May tells the history of McDonalds to demonstrate how a vision for potential can bring success.
- God sees potential in you.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17
- 2 Corinthians 5:21
Try again, because God expects you to.
- Luke 5:5
- Trying again after failure is an act of faith and obedience.
Try again, because the world needs you to.
- If you keep trying, your success will give hope to others.
-Illustration: May recalls struggling with health problems and the difference between discouraging stories and encouraging stories, like baseball player Dave Draveky.
-1 Thessalonians 1:6-7
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