Freedom From The Past
This is the Truth that sets me free from the past.
I take my eyes off of the past sins and fix them on Jesus, who willingly laid down His life for my sins! Then I can willingly lay down my life for others who have hurt and sinned against me. I refuse to focus on the sins of others and myself! Since my eyes are the lamp of my body, I will keep them healthy and my whole body full of light by choosing to walk in the light, as He is in the light, having fellowship with Jesus through His Word and Spirit. Heb. 12:2; 1John 3:16; Matt. 6:22; 1John 1:7
Jesus said, “No one looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.” Therefore I will forget the past by focusing on the future and hope that God has for me in Christ. I know the plans He has for me are plans to prosper me and not to harm me. Therefore I must always refuse to fellowship with impure and discouraging thoughts of any kind because they are not prospering me but harming me. I will eat from the tree of life from God’s Word and let there be light in me! Phil. 4:8; 2Cor. 4:6; Prov. 3:1; Luke 9:62; Jeremiah. 29:11
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, a picture of Jesus on the cross, all who looked to His sacrifice for payment for their sins received healing. I’m looking at Jesus, not my past. Holding onto the past is holding onto sickness. I remember Lot’s wife. If I seek to save my life by looking back I end up losing it. I am laying aside the sins of the past by instead looking unto Jesus, who paid for them all in full, and I receive healing as well! Num. 21:9; John 3:14; Heb 12:1-2; John 19:30; Isa. 53:4-6; Luke 17:32-33
I take my thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ because as I think in my heart, I will be. I will keep telling myself the good news that God is for me and not against me, sparing not his own Son, but giving him up for me and now freely giving me all things! Over all the things that happened to me in my past I am more than a conqueror through Him who loved me. 2Cor. 10:5; Prov. 23:7; Rom. 8:31-32, 37
I feed my soul only on the riches of abundance through continually thinking and speaking about the good news of Jesus, who destroyed the works of the devil and freed me from all condemnation. Jesus gave me the way of escape from the past by becoming sin for me, that I might become the righteousness of Christ! Isa. 55:2-3; 1John 3:8; Rom. 8:1; 1Cor. 10:13; 2Pet. 1:3-4; 2Cor. 5:21
I will fill myself with good by the fruit of my mouth; therefore I forget the former things by not bringing them up or dwelling on them in my thoughts, because now I’m a new creation. I choose to do what Jesus did and cover over all offense, seek love and speak evil of no one. I remember the sins and lawless deeds of others and myself no more. Instead, I think on what is pure, good, and excellent; then I will be choosing life over death and blessings, not curses to my soul. I see God doing a new thing through this way of speaking and thinking. Prov. 12:14; Isa. 43:18-19; Heb. 8:12; Prov. 17:9; Titus 3:2; Phil. 4:8; Deut. 30:19
I do not repeat matters of the past because those things were never against others, but were the schemes of the devil to destroy us. The real battle has always been against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places, not against people. I thank the Lord for using what the devil meant for evil against me for good, and for restoring all the years of the locusts. Prov. 17:9; Eph. 6:11-12; Gen. 50:20; Joel 2:25
Now I can rejoice and celebrate the victory and freedom I have over my past because of the gift of God in Jesus Christ! This one thing I must do: forget what lies behind, because the past has been paid for in full by the blood of Jesus. I no longer have a a past! God remember my sins no more because He made me a new creation in Christ. The devil brings up the past to destroy me but Jesus, wants me continually reminding myself of the cross, and my new identity in Christ, so I can enjoy living my life in Him. Rom. 6:23; 1John 5:4-5; Phil. 3:13-14; Rev. 12:10; James 1:23-26; 1Cor. 2:2; Phil 3:7-8; Gal. 2:20; 2 Cor. 5:17; Heb. 8:12
I will be wise and set my mind and heart on the things above where Christ is seated and the devil is defeated. I will choose Jesus, the way of life, by being peaceable, gentle, and showing all people humility, for I realize that I was also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, being hateful and hating others when the kindness and love of God saved me! Col. 3:1-3; Titus 3:2-7; Heb 10:17
I have learned in whatever situation I am in to be content, knowing that I can do all things, including forgetting the past and forgiving others, through Christ who strengthens me. I will gladly put away from me all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and slander, along with all malice, and be kind, tenderhearted, forgiving others and myself as God in Christ forgave me. I am in Christ, and a new creation, walking in love and keeping no record of wrongs. The old me has passed away; behold, the new me in Christ has come. Phil. 4:11-13; Eph. 4:31-32; 2Cor 5:17; 1Cor. 13:1-8
Because of the encouragement in Christ and comfort from His love, fellowship of His Spirit, and the affection and sympathy I have received, I will fulfill His joy by being of the same mind as Christ. I will have His love, being of one mind and accord, and will do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility of mind I will esteem others better than myself. I will look not only to my own interests, but also to the interests of others. I will let this mind be in me, which was also in Christ Jesus! Phil 2:1-5
