That’s why certain
things that refuse to be healed must be forsaken and forgotten! There are people
praising God in Church every Sunday who lie awake in the privacy of their homes,
digging up bones, picking at scars and reliving and rehashing old memories. You
need to accept that some issues will never be resolved, and if you let them,
they’ll take up residence in your head and in your heart! [The what ifs? The
should haves? The maybes?] These will all drive you nuts…if you let them!
Adjust
Your Focus On Your Future! The Vision For Your Future Will Always Look Distorted
When You View It Through Eyes That Can Only See The Past! Warning: Paying
Attention to Your Past, Will Cost Your Present a Pretty Penny and Your Future a
Fortune! Don’t Bankrupt The Blessing Before You! What Is Currently Around Us Is
Not All There Is For Us! Past....Rest In Peace! Future....Get Ready For Revival!
God Has An Awesome Customized Plan For Each Of Us! We Simply Need To Seek It,
Find It, And Live It To The Fullest!
AS OVERCOMERS, YOU ARE TO WALK IN NEW
VICTORIES EVERYDAY! DAILY WAVING A FLAG OF VICTORY IN THE DEVIL’S FACE!
With
that said you must ask, if "NEWNESS" is supposed to be so EVIDENT in the life of
a believer, WHY ARE WE SO CRAZY-GLUED TO THE “OLD?" Far too many of us, are
stuck in the same old routines.
In case you didn’t know, THAT IS NOT THE
MENTALITY OF AN OVERCOMER! OVERCOMERS ARE DAILY IN HIGH PURSUIT OF SOME NEW
CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME! LISTEN, GOD DID NOT CREATE US, AND HE MOST CERTAINLY
DIDN’T REDEEM US, TO LIVE A PURPOSELESS EXISTENCE! OVERCOMERS DON’T EXIST—THEY
LIVE AND THEY LIVE NOT JUST ABUNDANTLY—BUT MORE ABUNDANTLY! For the Bible
declares, "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
I have come that they may have life, AND THAT THEY MAY HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY"
(John 10:10). What Is Currently Around Us Is Not All There Is For Us! God Has An
Awesome Customized Plan For Each Of Us! We Simply Need To Seek It, Find It, And
Live It To The Fullest!
The Scripture says, "No one puts a piece of unshrunk
cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear
is made worse. Nor do they put NEW wine into old wineskins, or else the
wineskins are ruined. But they put NEW wine into NEW wineskins, and both are
preserved." When something is PRESERVED it means it's, "KEPT, MAINTAINED, AND
PROTECTED". And what’s being "KEPT, MAINTAINED, AND PROTECTED?" YOUR NEWNESS!
UNDERSTAND THAT THE OLD CAUSES DAMAGE, IT TEARS, IT DESTROYS, IT PULLS AWAY, IT
SEVERS, BUT THE NEW IS PRESERVED! IN A NUTSHELL: IT’S TIME TO BREAK-OUT OF THE
OLD AND BREAK IN TO THE NEW! Overcomers, Crush That Devil Under Your Foot On
This Current Level, Then Lift It And Put It On The Next Level And The Next Devil
And Attain Your Next New Victory!
Revelation 21:7, “He Who Overcomes Will
Inherit These Things, and I Will Be His God and He Will Be My Son.” (NASB).
Grab
a hold of these promises and you will never again settle to live the same ole
same ole life again!
We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into
death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power]
of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in NEWNESS of life.” (Romans 6:4 AMP)
IT’S NOT ENOUGH THAT IT’S DEAD—YOU HAVE TO BURY IT!
I do thank
God for the Apostle Paul though. Because he was honest enough to admit that he
still struggled in certain areas. Unlike those with a Pharisee spirit who
condemn others for doing the very things they do themselves, Paul confessed,
“But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can’t keep it, and
if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously
need help! I realize that I don’t have what it takes. I decide to do good, but I
don’t really do it; I decide not to do badly, but then I do it anyway. My
decisions, such as they are, don’t result in actions. Something has gone wrong
deep within me and gets the better of me every time.” (Romans 7:17-20 MSG).
Thanks Paul, from the rest of us who mistakenly thought that once we became
Christians, there would be no more struggles! Thanks for helping some of us who
thought that once we became Pastor, Elder, Teacher, Prophet, that the struggles
would be over. That once we reached our 20 years saved, 15 years in ministry, 10
years healed and 5 years delivered, that the struggles would be over. Well, I’m
here to serve notice on you: The Struggles Are Not Over! They continue! That’s
why we were told to “Fight the good Fight of faith…” (1 Timothy 6:12). Not that
we fought (past tense) the good fight. But this is a Current and Continual
battle! YET, it’s one that doesn’t have to defeat us.
Think about it: If you
keep looking in the rear-view mirror, you’re going to eventually crash into
something ahead of you! And I would hate for that to be your blessing, your
miracle, your breakthrough, your season or your way out! You don’t want to
damage what’s before you, by daydreaming about what’s behind you! Sure, you must
utilize all the mirrors on your vehicle to some degree. But keep in mind, the
main one is looking straight ahead out the windshield! Looking, anticipating,
ready, expecting, and seeking for what yet lies ahead! SO…“Forget about what’s
happened; don’t keep going over old history. Be alert, be present. I’m about to
do something brand-new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it?” (Isaiah 43:18-19
MSG).
Tell yourself, all my past issues I’m taking to the tomb TODAY and I’m
burying it! Yes it hurts, it’s disappointing, it’s caused me severe suffering
and pain, but TODAY I’m burying it! The actions were painful, the words were
hurtful, the thoughts were discouraging, but I’m burying it TODAY! I refuse to
let it hang around in the funeral home. TODAY, I’m packing it up and finding an
available plot, and if not, I’m fed up enough to dig one myself! One way or
another this thing is being buried TODAY!
Whatever You Do, Know That You Don’t
Have To Stay This Way! You Don’t Have to Settle For This! You Don’t Have To
Accept This! NO! Change Begins With You, And Your Change Begins Today! The New
Month or the New Day! Enough Is Enough!
Albert Einstein said it best: “Nothing
Happens Until Something Moves” And That Something Is YOU! Get To Moving Out of
the Old and Into the New…TODAY! We are in the month of October. There are only
have two months left in 2024. Soon we will wave goodbye to 2024 and high-five
2025! Look in the mirror right now and tell yourself: THE OLD ME IS FINALLY
READY FOR NEW! Past....Rest In Peace! Future....Get Ready For Revival
Blessings
J. P. Olson
www.journeyintotheword.com
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