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Drop Your Baggage
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TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
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“...let us strip off
every weight that slows us down...”
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(Hebrews 12:1, NLT)
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TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria
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What’s happened in your past
is not nearly as important as what is in your future. Where you’re going is
much more significant than where you’ve been. But if you stay focused on the
past, you’ll get stuck where you are. This is the reason a lot of people don’t
have joy or enthusiasm for life. They’re dragging around all of this negative
baggage from the past. Somebody offended them last week, and they’ve got that
stuffed in their resentment bag. Last month, they lost their temper and said
some things they shouldn’t have. They’ve got that in their guilt and
condemnation bag. Ten years ago, they lost a loved one. They still don’t
understand it. They’ve got that hurt and pain in their disappointment bag.
They carry around their bag of regrets, all the things they wished they would
have done differently.
Life is too short to live
that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive
the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive your spouse for what
they said. At the start of the day, let go of the disappointments, the
setbacks from yesterday. Start every morning fresh and new. God did not
create you to carry around all that baggage. Let it go and move forward in
the life of blessing He has in store for you!
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A PRAYER FOR TODAY
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Father, today I
choose to travel light. I choose to shake off the past, shake off
disappointment and forgive those who have hurt me. Heal my heart as I release
everything that would try to hold me back in Jesus’ name! Amen.
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— Joel &
Victoria Osteen
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Today's word
Trusting God – Do you have faith –? What is faith – faith gives substance to the things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. So how is ones faith tested –? When the going gets tough do we abandon our God – do we jump ship because we are “going through” The answer is NO , as Christians we must keep the faith – even when it does not look good or feel good – you have to know its working for the good – you must learn the lesson – the season of testing – your harvest season is over – it’s time for reaping your reward – you stood the good fight - they lied on you, they cheated on you, they ignored you, your finances fell so below it’s a wonder you are still standing- and yet through it all you kept harvesting and trusting – storing up on his word and planting good seeds. The bible says : Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 - For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to pl...
