Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him. For the Lord is your life.- Deuteronomy 30:19-20
Why can it be so hard to walk in the restoration of the Lord? I think it's because our flesh fights to pull us back to where we once were. Not physically but mentally. When we surrender our lives to Christ and He restores everything that the enemy stole ,we step into freedom. So why do so many Christians constantly live in mental bondage of the past? I'm asking this because I've seen it in my own life. When God brings something really amazing into your life your mind can kick into that mental bondage gear and make you think that whatever good thing that has been brought into your life is to good to be true because of what happened last time. This is a lie that the enemy uses to prevent you from stepping into the fullness of what God has for you. So many times we get hung up on "what happened last time" that we forget it was the "last time!" When we step into the redeeming grace of Jesus everything that happened "last time" is finished! Those same things are not going to bring you to ruin like they once did because Jesus has stepped in, covered you in His blood and righteousness, and taken back everything the enemy took from you. Sometimes I can find myself living in the mindset of "what happened last time." Every time I go into that mindset though I find that it brings me to bondage and doesn't line up with what God has said about my life. God delights in me, He paid the price for my freedom, He has removed my shackles and said "It is finished." Your past does not define the blessings of your future because your history has been re written with the blood of Jesus. His life becomes ours and any thought that doesn't line up with that is a thought from Satan. We can get so hung up on the past, myself included. When things went wrong before, it's our human nature to think it will go wrong again. It's time for us to stop chasing shadows of the past and start chasing the glorious light and freedom of Jesus! God is a redeeming God! When we commit our hearts, minds, and lives to Him restoration becomes out portion. As children of God we have been given a powerful heritage "no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me, declares the Lord." (Isaiah 54:17). God has vindicated you and no force of hell or attack of the past can prevail against you! The blood of Jesus runs through your veins and this truth reigns in our souls. We have been vindicated and everything of the past is of the past! I encourage you guys today, along with myself, don't allow things of the past to manipulate what God is doing in your life right now. Embrace the restoration of The Lord, knowing that while it may be undeserved it is a powerful testimony to the goodness of God. Step into the freedom of Jesus and walk away from the "what happened last time" mentality. Jesus has things in store for you beyond comprehension. We go from glory to glory. - Sofia
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