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    Failure Is Not Defeat
    Failure Is Not Defeat
    Failure Is Not Defeat
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    Failure Is Not Defeat

    By Richmond Donkor

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    This story is about a young girl who started life well but went on to fail miserably. She threw away her two sons after giving birth to them, and she involved herself in many evil practices. She became hopeless because failure was following her everywhere she went. Her own parents and best friends left her when she was desperately in need. This Lady's failure turned to success because of some things that she eventually realized about herself. Her life changed completely. Meanwhile, those children she had thrown away became successful people. How did she do it? Discover the full story from this book

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichmond Donkor
    Release dateNov 21, 2014
    ISBN9781310095566
    Failure Is Not Defeat
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    Richmond Donkor

    Richmond Donkor is Author, songwriter, singer, self-development coach, Evangelist, Pastor, teacher, motivational speaker and philanthropist. He is the author of 3 steps to Overcome Poverty, The Call With Promise; From wretch to Riches, How to Evangelize With Confidence, The Ultimate Wife, The Ultimate Husband, The Ultimate Dream Family and Created to Lead. Richmond has been preaching, teaching, training, and planting churches in South-East Asia and currently he is the associate pastor at the Restored House Chapel Ministries in Vancouver, Canada. He enjoys reading, writing, praying, and singing praises and worship songs. Learn more about him from his website: http://www.evangelistrichmond.com.

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      Failure Is Not Defeat - Richmond Donkor

      Failure is not Defeat

      How to turn your failure to Success

      By

      Richmond Donkor

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      Copyright © 2014

      Published at Smashwords by Richmond Donkor

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: The Reality of Failure

      Chapter 2:Failure is part of learning and Growing Process

      Chapter 3: The Learning Process of Peter

      Chapter 4: The Fruit of Failure

      Chapter 5: Hope Within Failure

      Chapter 6: Overcome Failure

      Chapter 7 Follow Christ

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      Introduction

      Failure has become a part of human lives since the fall of man. It is very difficult for us to accept failure because most people see failure as defeat. However, the truth is nobody plans to fail in life, but it is very common to see failure in every aspect of human.

      Failure is the only thing in life that no one includes in his or her planned to-do list. We plan to get married, we plan to have children. We plan to start business, and we plan to do almost everything in life. All these things that I have mentioned are things we fail often. Do we fail because of our carelessness or because of inadequate knowledge about things we fail?

      Does failure have a significant impact in our lives? Have you ever asked yourself where did failure come from? This book would answer most of your questions about failure. Are you tired of failing many times? Do you know that your failure could be turned to success? Failure is the best teacher in life anyone who wants to taste success must pass through its hands.

      Perhaps you have failed in your marriage, your job, your business and any other things that you have failed in life and because of that, you have given up. Remember failure become a defeat when you give up. It doesn’t matter how many times you have tried, but you keep failing. Your failure in life does not make you the worst person in this world, but it makes the most experience person in life. You will learn more about people who failed in life, but because they did not give up, they became greatest people. 

      This story is about a young girl who started very well but due to some reasons, she failed miserably. She threw her two sons away after given birth to them and got involved in many evil practices. She became hopeless because failure was following her everywhere she goes. Her own parents and best friends left her when she was desperately in need. Her failure turned to Success because of some things she realized about herself. Her life changed completely and those children she threw away became successful people. How did she do it? You will discover how she did it. Failure is inevitable in life, but if we know how to handle them, we can turn them easily to success. 

      Perhaps your parents, ex-wife, ex-husband, your formal boss, friends and your co-workers have told you that you cannot make it because of your situation. You should remember that your enemies are not God, so they cannot stop you from doing what you want to do.

      Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. Denis Waitle

      ~~~~~

      Chapter 1: The Reality of Failure

      Mr. and Mrs. Ako were very rich and well known throughout the city of Abeka because of their success in business. Successful people also have their own challenges. They have almost everything in life except children. After waiting for seven years, God answered their prayer, and they had a baby girl. Because of how they struggled before they got their first born, they named her Godiva, which means gift from God. 

      According to them, they believe that everything that comes from God is perfect, so they will do the best they can to take good care of Godiva for her to become a responsible person in the future. They started teaching her about God right from the beginning. So when she was in Junior high school, Godiva became a preacher. She tells her classmates and all her friends about God all the time. She was very intelligent and hard-working girl and because of that, everybody loves her.

      Mr. and Mrs. Ako were very happy to have Godiva, because it was something that they have been waited for long. Everybody in that city loves Godiva so much because of her parents, were kind and loving. They fully prepared very well before the arrival of Godiva. Mr. Ako told Godiva that everything they had belonged to her, so she should take good care of whatever they own in a family. Godiva parents told her that, she should take her studies and her spiritual life seriously because they believe; the best way to be successful in life is being diligent in whatever you do. Godiva grew and became very beautiful in that city so most of the men, there were dreaming to marry her someday.

      When Godiva finished her senior high school, her father wanted her to continue her college in Abeka so that they would be able to keep their eye on her. Mrs. Ako suggested that, the universities in Abeka were not quality so it would be great for Godiva to study in an excellent university in the big city. Mrs. Ako added that, it would be great for Godiva to learn to live an independent life. So they all agreed and she relocated to a big city, which was 500 miles away from them. 

      In school, Godiva met different people with distinctive characters. Her first semester she did wonderful in all her subjects. In second semester, Godiva started going out with some of her friends at night. When school vacated, she decided to stay in school to do some classes, so she did not go home. Her parents visited her, and they were happy about how she has become independent so fast.

      She got hooked by the nightlife and because of that, she started drinking and using other drugs without her parents notice. She stopped attending classes so one of the teachers was concerned, and he reported what Godiva was doing with her friends. One-night Godiva got drunk, and she was raped by someone. After one month, she realized that, there

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