Let Go of the Past!
Let Go of the Past! Put aside such thoughts and ALLOW God to do a NEW thing in your life.
The atmosphere you create determines the product you produce.
Our past should only be viewed for what we can Learn from it. Don’t let it be your Identity! Don’t let it be a stronghold that holds you back from All that God wants YOU to BE!
Each new day provides a brand New opportunity to do something Great in life. Let GO and Let God!
*”When your memories are bigger than your dreams, you’re headed for the grave!!!!!”
*The key to being great is your ability to forget about the PAST success and failures. Let go of what use to be in expectation of what will be.
“Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13b-14
Our past can be a hindrance or a help in moving toward God’s purposes for each of us.
For some, the past has meant pain and heartache, and Grace is required so that we do not let our PAST DICTATE our responses to the future.
*If we allow our past to make us a VICTIM, then we have NOT entered into the grace that God has for us.
*If we live on memories of past successes and fail to raise our Vision for New Things, we again are VICTMINS of our past.
It is the way a believer should operate. We should forget the way we used to be, forget the habits and the paths we used to take and keep on running toward the Lord’s paths (3:14).
* He would not have us bound up in addiction, gluttony or affliction, but He gives us the Freedom to follow HIM and continue on doing His will.
Whether you are battling drugs, alcohol, rage, food, stealing, pornography or any other type of addiction/old nature, remember that God IS with YOU.
* God IS there with you helping you through this…whatever it is.
God has created YOU new if you are a believer and if you are not a believer…He CAN create you into a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17).
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland” (Is. 43:19).
***Our past should only be viewed for what we can learn from it.
**We must “Move Forward” and avoid viewing the negative or the positive for more than what we can learn.
*Many of us have allowed our PAST to dictate our future.
God is always about doing NEW things in our lives. He gives fresh revelation of His purposes in our lives.
* Do not live in the past.
* Do not hold onto bitterness and unforgiveness that may hinder God from doing new and exciting things in your life.
God turns our wastelands into streams of water to give life, not death.
*How have you viewed your past?
*Has it hindered you in some areas of your life?
*Are You still holding on to things you have repented for and trusted that God has forgiven it?
*Are still holding on to the Guilt and Shame?
*Have you relied on past successes to dictate what you will do in the future? ***Put aside such thoughts and ALLOW God to do a New thing in your life.
*Ask Him to help you see the new things He wants to do in and through you today once you trust God to handle the past mistakes and sins.
“When your memories are bigger than your dreams, you’re headed for the grave!!!!!”
Look forward to where you want to be on the road of Life. When you see a pothole coming, looking forward, you can veer around it still pressing forward and thus get to your destination.
WANT A NEW LIFE?
Jn 12:24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
*You need to let OLD things(past) die to break into your new life.
*New life takes boldness and faith.
Romans 12:1-2 changing the way you think allows us to live a new life.
**2 Timothy 2:15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
**Proverbs 3:6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
* We must not be wise in our own eyes but we be willing to listen to and be corrected by God’s Word and wise counselors. Bring your decisions to God in prayer; use the Bible as your guide; and then follow God’s leading. He will direct your paths by both guiding and protecting you.
Matthew 9:12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Are we being broken by the cornerstone that is Christ Jesus?
God knows who we are, he sees our faults he sees our failures. He knows us for who we are BUT desires us to come before him broken, humble before HIS throne so that we may be made new. Christ doesn’t come for those that think they are well, but for those that know they are unwell.
He wants us to come before him broken desiring him and knowing that we are in need of his salvation because we know there is no way that we can be put back together if we haven’t been broken yet.
The tools necessary to defeat every work of darkness and to overcome the works of the flesh and your past have been made available to you.
*Don’t forget that you can access by Faith the Grace to overcome and gain the victory.
*Refuse to become a victim of your circumstances or Past or succumb to the fear that has been sent to paralyze you and to undermine your faith in the Lord. Be strong and maintain spiritual integrity and courage. Victory is assured! You have JESUS!
Romans 5:2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in HOPE of the glory of God.
Pray with Me:
Come Lord Jesus- COME! Set me FREE from my past. Allow me to see Your Grace each New Day. Renew my heart, mind, soul for your Glory and my joy, Trusting You remember my repented sins no more, they are as far away as the East is of the West. Thank you Jesus for the Cross, may I give You All the Glory and Praise for this New Person You are Making Me. I Surrender ALL! Amen