Men Of Torah Day--How to “Fall Up”!!!

Proverbs 24:16


We are walking in today:  Men Of Torah Day--How to “Fall Up”!!!
 Witness fall throughout the Bible:  H5307 naphal--to fall, be cast down, fail

Numbers 14:3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall H5307

by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

The Torah testifies...............
 Numbers  14:29 Your carcases shall fall H5307 in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

The prophets proclaim..................    
 Isaiah 10:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall H5307 under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

The writings bear witness...........................
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Chronicles 21:13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall H5307 now

into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall H5307 into the hand of man.

Jeremiah  8:4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, H5307 and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

Proverbs 24:16 For though he falls seven times, he will get up again; it’s the wicked who fail under stress.

How to “Fall Up”: Restoration After Character Failure:

The streets of history are littered with the remains of wasted lives— the lives of powerful, talented, skillful, and educated leaders who collapsed under the weight of their achievements, success, notoriety, influence, and power because they lacked an ethical foundation that could have carried them to their destiny.

Many of these onetime great leaders undervalued the priority and power of character in their lives. They traded faith for fame, principles for power, and moral respect for reputation.

It is tragic to observe the dishonorable descent of such leaders who, by their own indiscretion, irresponsibility, lack of discipline, and abuse of privilege sell their integrity for temporary pleasures and destroy their character.

Leaders are normally trained in how to succeed, but they are rarely taught how to fail effectively— by learning from their mistakes and making changes to avoid repeating them in the future. They fall down, but they don’t know how to “fall up” after failing.

Remember that a leader’s ability to function successfully in his role of influencing others for a great cause in the interest of humanity is what I call the “trust factor.” Trust is the currency of true leadership and is the power that is deposited into the leader’s influence account. The only way to protect this deposit of trust is to establish strong character.

It can take years for a leader to build this account— but only minutes of irresponsibility to deplete it and even cancel it.

The following are the steps to restoration, reconciliation, and reclamation after you have experienced a moral failure or otherwise “fallen” in your leadership role:

1. Admit your need for help.
2. Confess your violation of trust.
3. Identify a true and reliable authority in your life to be accountable to.
4. Practice complete submission to that authority without condition.
5. Obey the advice, counsel, and instruction of that authority without condition.
6. Accept full responsibility for your fall.
7. Agree never to attempt to defend yourself or your act of indiscretion.
8. Agree to allow the authority to represent and speak on your behalf to your constituency and the greater community.
9. Practice total submission to the discretion of the authority with regard to your readiness to return to public service.
10. Establish a permanent relationship with the authority for the purpose of ongoing accountability.

If a leader follows these steps, he can find healing and restoration. The safest course to take when you fall is to submit yourself to a qualified human authority. Again, failure is not the termination of a leader’s call, assignment, gifts, or talents.

Make sure you take time out from your other responsibilities to evaluate what went wrong. Some leaders who fail keep on going as if nothing had happened. You will need to seek forgiveness from those you have let down, but then you must develop self-control, steadiness, maturity, and all the other values of principled leadership.

Trust the Creator to restore you to leadership when you are ready for it. There is life after “the fall,” but you must follow the process of restoration in order to receive its benefits.

70 Character Traits Of Principled Leaders:

1. Character protects power and vision.
2. Leadership is only as safe as your character.
3. Your gift can never protect your character but your character will protect your gift.
4. You were born to lead but you must become a leader.
5. True leaders never seek followers.
6. You cannot teach leadership; you give information that causes the leaders to develop.
7. Your skill is what you do, your gift is who you are.
8. Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration geared by a passion.
9. Never trust an untested person.
10. True leadership is finding something to die for.
11. All great leaders are angry; the problem today is we don’t have enough angry leaders.
12. True leaders do not seek followers; true leaders attract followers.
13. You are a tree, and you must know people come for the fruit not the tree.
14. True leadership is not measured by how many people that serve you but how many people you serve.
15. Don’t depend on people to get your value.
16. That’s why many famous singers and entertainers do drugs and overdose- because they depend on people for their value.
17. True leadership is determined by character.
18. Character is not a gift you are not born with.
19. Character is developed; you can’t pray for it or fast for it. Character is the ability to go through test and still remain.
20. The foundation of leadership is character.
21. Without character you will crumble like sand.
22. Character is a word that means statue; it means to be set like dried cement.
23. Character is image; you are stable, predictable, and dependable.
24. Character- no matter what happens around you, you never change.
25. Character is when people around you can predict what you are doing when no one is watching.
26. Character is when I can trust you even when I cant see you.
27. Character means you don’t have another life; you are the same in the day and the same in the night.
28. What do you do when the pressure comes? Do you collapse like Samson or do you stand like Joseph? Both of them lost their clothing yet one of them stood past the test of the trials.
29. “Hypocrite” simply means a person with many masks.
30. The greatest compliment someone can tell you is that “I met you so many years ago and you are still the same today.”
31. Numbers and letters are characters because they don’t change.
32. In business your character will protect your business.
33. Trust is a product of passing tests over time.
34. Character is a self-imposed discipline.
35. Character is a commitment to set of values without compromise.
36. Character is a dedication to a set of standards without wavering.
37. Character is a constant effort to integrate one’s words, deeds, and actions.
38. Pertaining to character- what I say, do and am should be the same.
39. The same word for character is the same as Holy, that’s why God is Holy.
40. Our goal in life should be to grow, but never change just like an apple tree that doesn’t turn into an orange tree.
41. You shouldn’t marry someone you didn’t test.
42. Character is sacrificing to protect your convictions.
43. It’s better to be respected than liked.
44. Philosophy- means love to think, so be careful what you hear and think.
45. Your character becomes your lifestyle.
46. You shouldn’t want people around you who haven’t made any mistakes; you should want to be around people who survived mistakes.
47. You never trust people who didn’t survive anything.
48. Character is created out of tests.
49. You are as safe as your character.
50. You are not qualified to help someone if you have not been tested.
51. Every true business must go through a period of bankruptcy.
52. Every success story has a story; never trust anyone who doesn’t have a story.
53. Character controls your lifestyle.
54. If you are not afraid to be discovered; you have character.
55. Values are more important than vision.
56. A lack of values will destroy your vision.
57. A person of character has an alarm built in and it sounds off when it’s about to be violated.
58. Your conscience is a divine alarm system.
59. A person of character follows their conscience.
60. Vision without values is destiny without discipline.
61. Vision is protected by values.
62. The first thing God gave us is image; image is more important than power.
63. Reputation is what others think about you; character is what you know about yourself.
64. Character means you are the same all the time.
65. What you are in private should be who you are in public.
66. You are no better than your private life.
67. Would you marry you with all that you know about you?
68. Instant success is dangerous, God will not take you through a shortcut; he’s not fixing things, he is fixing you.
69. You can’t enjoy the struggle if you don’t know what it’s doing for you. Any test you don’t pass you will have to do again. Let God chisel character in your life.
70. Integrity is when your public life and private life become one. 

Shema Selah let us hear, listen and obey the instructions that build our character and walk out the recover for when we fall! https://www.facebook.com/fiveam.prayer/videos/1598249943586449/?l=7545144460501259430