TRUST THE PROCESS

some of you are in positions right now

where something didn't work out

maybe it was a relationship

maybe it was a dream

maybe it was a job maybe it was

something that happened two years ago

and you define your life by that moment

you've allowed that moment to become

your identity and you consider yourself

a failure

so many people in this world are afraid

to fail so many people in this world

experience failure and they give up on

life

let me tell you something

failure is only when you stop trying

I want to let you know no matter how

hard it may have been

no matter how hard it is no matter how

many setbacks you endure no matter how

many challenges and obstacles that if

you're still breathing if you're still

going if you're still trying you are not

a failure

I don't care what the world says I don't

care what opinions say I don't care what

the mirror even says

you say to yourself

you are not a failure

failure only exists to the person that

no longer tries failure only existed a

person that gives up

quits

I want you to understand that

you cannot be great without failure you

cannot succeed without failure

you cannot get to your next level

without failure

if success was a road it would be paved

with failure if success was a road

gravel would be failure if success was a

road back in the days the brick style

laid on that road would be failure

in order to get to a place in your life

in order to learn and in order to grow

you have to endure attempts of not

getting it right you have to endure

attempts of not being perfect

you have to endure attempts of setbacks

so understand that just because it ain't

working out like you want it to work out

now it's okay

probably gonna work out better than you

intended to in the first place

the dream is probably gonna be more

powerful than you ever dreamed of the

purpose that God has for you is going to

be more purposeful than you could have

ever thought sometimes we have to go

through the process

sometimes when you try and you don't

succeed

that is not failure my friend that is

called process I want you to listen to

me because too many of us we start

thinking less about ourselves

we start getting depressed that is not

failure that is called the process

the process sucks the process doesn't

work out the way it's supposed to work

out all of the time

you're going to go through things that

don't work out just so you can learn

better things so something better can

work out for your life

fail forward and fail often because

failure doesn't Define you that is

called the process

that is called feedback

some of you are experiencing things in

your life that is not for you

but it's for people coming behind you

it's for you to help other people

if you didn't go through it how can you

tell other people to get through it

how can you tell your kids that this is

how you get through this if you never

went through it how could you tell your

kids this is the season trust me I've

been here this is just a season where

you're losing friends this is the season

where it doesn't make sense I've been

through it but everything's gonna work

out

so understand when you're going through

your journey that doesn't make sense

it's always a bigger picture

never let small moments distract you

from the bigger picture never let the

small setbacks distract you from the

bigger picture

never let the small bumps in the road

kill your destination and kill your

journey

it's a part of the process and you've

got to trust the process

and that's a part of your life

you're gonna have pieces of your life

that look terrible

you're gonna have seasons in your life

that you are not proud of that you're

gonna look back and you'll be disgusted

at

that people will be disgusted if they

knew certain things about you

but you know what those things when they

came together those things that allowed

you to become smarter to become wiser to

become stronger

those things that were meant to hold you

back but really built you up those

things when they come together and they

constructed something more powerful than

the things that try to make you

powerless

those people look at you and say I'm

proud of you

a lot of you are going to have some

unproud moments in your life but that

doesn't Define your life that doesn't

make Who You Are

what makes who you are is not what

happens to you but how you respond to

what happens to you

what makes you who you are is not what

happens to you but how you use what

happens to you

I want you to understand that and keep

going

I don't care how it may look but keep

going

I don't know how it may seem but keep

going your journey is yours my friend

and just because you've had some

setbacks and failure it doesn't make you

a failure it makes you stronger

failure is only when you quit

failure only exists in the soul that

doesn't try

so if you're trying you're successful

and I'll leave you with this failure is

not based upon what you have in your

life and how people celebrate you and

how people look at you or what you

accomplish and things like that failure

is simply defined by if you're trying or

if you're quitting

and if you're trying

that's the greatest success you could

ever have.