Freedom From Your Past ~ Week Two
Simple Truth
Freedom is equally given and received.
The moment you called upon Jesus Christ to be your Savior you were given freedom from your past. It is now in our hands to choose to open this gift.
I wonder if fear of opening up our Pandora’s Box of the past will be void of the presence of God.
Sweet Friend, whether or not you were a child of God during your moments of the past, God is your Creator and Father today. Trust Him to be present in your future, in your today, and in your yesterday. He will heal. He will renew. He will make all things new. The good and the bad are washed in a Newness that will outshine anything the past has to offer.
Consider: Do you have a success statement you tend to share when you need to build yourself up? Do you have a fail statement you cling to when Jesus desires to draw you forward? Are you willing to share one with a friend today? Are you ready to replace these (and the other statements on your personal list) with what Jesus has for your future?
Challenge: Consider giving your past to Christ Jesus. Write them down in order to see what you truly cling to from “what lies behind”. Ask a Sister to help you replace each statement listed with “what lies ahead”.
*Cheat sheet: What Lies Ahead is LIFE. Life Everlasting! See that.
Video Lesson
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Scripture
~ Philippians 3:13
“Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead.”
Not all past is bad. Some is good. But all past has a voice that is either silenced, comparable to loud noise, or held by the voice of God. My prayer is that we will study Scripture to find freedom from our past and choose which voice we desire our past to have.
Jaclyn