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 (Philippians 3:13)
Letting go of the past can be a hard thing. Why? because some of us are still living in it. We have made the past our home and no matter how torn down that house is we refuse to move. In our house called the past we have made bitterness, hurt, heartache and pain, our bedfellows. We stay hidden behind our stone walls which are so high that nobody, not even God ,can get through to us. In order to get free you have be willing to move out of the house that you reside in on 2300 Bitterness Lane and move into the house that God has built for you called Freedom.
Being free means to be released from something that controls, restrains, burdens, and holds you in bondage.
What is holding you in Bondage? What is keeping you from being free? Whatever it is let it go. Give it to God Unfortunately there are many, many people who have nothing except the past to hold on to. They live in the past it seems, because that's all they have. They talk about how someone hurt them at sometime in their childhood or how someone gave them a dirty look at the supermarket today and countless other things. I have known people to hold a grudge against someone that has been dead for years even. Why do we hold on to our past so much? It is time for you to get on with your life. Again I say let it go.
In order to be free you have got to be willing to give God everything in your life that is keeping you bound.
And after you have let go of the past , you cannot keep visiting and dwelling in it. You have got to be willing to leave your former neighbors called bitterness , hurt and pain right where they belong; in the past.
Sometimes even after moving out of 2300 bitterness lane into Freedom Lane we try to take a part of the past into our new beginning . Bringing the past into your New beginning is dangerous because that means you are not really free but still in bondage. In order to hold on to freedom, the word tells me that you have to stand fast in it, you have to hold on to it and keep holding on to it no matter what is going on around you. To stand means to endure or undergo without harm or damage or without giving way.( Galatians 5:1) You can do it just stay in the fight.
The way to recognize whether or not you are is free is the ability to think about what held you in bondage and not have it effect you. You no longer cry about it, you no longer cringe when you think about. It no longer haunts your dreams and when you are faced with it , you can laugh to yourself and say Did I really let this get me down? Did I really let this control me? Is this what I was so afraid of? When you have allowed God to set you free, you will really be free (He whom the Son sets free is free indeed!" John 8:36)
One of the major things that God is teaching through this fast is about how to obtain freedom through him. When you are free you can praise God with your whole heart because there isn't anything holding you down. When you are free you can return to God and make him the love of your life, not people, places and things. Be encouraged, seek after obtain and dwell in a place of freedom.
Prayer
Father God in the name of Jesus,
Letting go of the past can be a hard thing. Why? because some of us are still living in it. We have made the past our home and no matter how torn down that house is we refuse to move. In our house called the past we have made bitterness, hurt, heartache and pain, our bedfellows. We stay hidden behind our stone walls which are so high that nobody, not even God ,can get through to us. In order to get free you have be willing to move out of the house that you reside in on 2300 Bitterness Lane and move into the house that God has built for you called Freedom.
Being free means to be released from something that controls, restrains, burdens, and holds you in bondage.
What is holding you in Bondage? What is keeping you from being free? Whatever it is let it go. Give it to God Unfortunately there are many, many people who have nothing except the past to hold on to. They live in the past it seems, because that's all they have. They talk about how someone hurt them at sometime in their childhood or how someone gave them a dirty look at the supermarket today and countless other things. I have known people to hold a grudge against someone that has been dead for years even. Why do we hold on to our past so much? It is time for you to get on with your life. Again I say let it go.
In order to be free you have got to be willing to give God everything in your life that is keeping you bound.
And after you have let go of the past , you cannot keep visiting and dwelling in it. You have got to be willing to leave your former neighbors called bitterness , hurt and pain right where they belong; in the past.
Sometimes even after moving out of 2300 bitterness lane into Freedom Lane we try to take a part of the past into our new beginning . Bringing the past into your New beginning is dangerous because that means you are not really free but still in bondage. In order to hold on to freedom, the word tells me that you have to stand fast in it, you have to hold on to it and keep holding on to it no matter what is going on around you. To stand means to endure or undergo without harm or damage or without giving way.( Galatians 5:1) You can do it just stay in the fight.
The way to recognize whether or not you are is free is the ability to think about what held you in bondage and not have it effect you. You no longer cry about it, you no longer cringe when you think about. It no longer haunts your dreams and when you are faced with it , you can laugh to yourself and say Did I really let this get me down? Did I really let this control me? Is this what I was so afraid of? When you have allowed God to set you free, you will really be free (He whom the Son sets free is free indeed!" John 8:36)
One of the major things that God is teaching through this fast is about how to obtain freedom through him. When you are free you can praise God with your whole heart because there isn't anything holding you down. When you are free you can return to God and make him the love of your life, not people, places and things. Be encouraged, seek after obtain and dwell in a place of freedom.
Prayer
Father God in the name of Jesus,
Thank you for providing freedom for me. I thank you for confirming through your word that I can be free. Today father I give you all of the bitterness and pain in my heart that is keeping me from seeing you and from knowing you. Please forgive me for not forgiving those who have hurt me , please forgive me for not loving my enemies like your word says. Lord I ask that you replace the bitterness in my heart with love and that you help me see when I find myself slipping back into the past. Father I give you my past ,my present and my future. Father I don't claim to understand everything that you have in store for me but I am glad to know that in you I will have an end and life orchestrated by you. all of these blessings in the precious name of Jesus we pray amen.
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