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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING

THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE:  FORGETTING THOSE THINGS

I am sure if people were honest, they would agree that we all have something in our past that we wish wasn’t there. As children of God, however our past is under the blood and not remembered against us. Even so, some have a hard time letting go. They allow the enemy to put guilt on them. Guilt is not ours to carry.

Marcus Aurelis said, “You don’t suffer from the past, you suffer from dragging it forward.”  I found this to be profound. Today is a new day, the past is in our yesterdays. There is not one thing we can do about the past. Allowing the enemy to pull us back to a place of shame, only harms us. 

God’s mercy is new each day. We are new creations in him; how can we be stuck in the past if we are new? We are not supposed to be stuck in the past. It is easy to be paralyzed by so many emotional things. God wants us to move forward.

It is easy to stay stuck in emotional turmoil or self-doubt. God will tell us to move on and step out of our comfort zone and we freeze. We become like Gideon, we start asking for signs and putting fleeces before the Lord. We question if we really hear his voice. Until he has to give us a little nudge to get us to move forward.

Some hold on to the things others do to cause them hurt. They say they forgive, but every time you talk to them, they bring up the things of the past. Today is the day to let go of the hurt. Determine in your heart that you are not giving them space in your mind any longer. Every time the enemy tries to remind you of the painful things. Tell him you forgive and it is forgotten. God is the healer of our pain. The more you resist the thoughts and do not give them room the easier it becomes. But you have to fight against it.

Phil 3:13-14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before, we need to press on. God has amazing things in store for his children. We are going to see many amazing things as be begin the final harvest gathering. I am excited to be a part of the soul winning harvest. But we cannot be effective witnesses if we are bound up in the past.

Others need to see that we have a light in us. Others need to experience the warmth of God’s love when they are around us. They will see that we are different, because the world is a cold and cruel place.

We need to be excited about where we are going and not be stuck looking back. We have nothing to look back to except pain and sin.

I PETER 3:15-16 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: 16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

The world may never understand us. They are blinded by satan and don’t understand how we can choose to live the life we have chosen. We must be ready always to give our testimony to others about how Jesus has set us free from the pain of the past.

In order to be ready to give that testimony, we must first not allow the past to interfere with our present. Each day is a gift, I don’t want to waste one more second remembering or caring about the things that are behind me. I want to be found looking forward and pressing on.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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