Thankfulness

I have been posting my notes from chapel, church services, events, and seminars that are God-centered for a certain amount of time.
With the help of Google, people have stumbled upon my blog from life-experiences, to problems, and love.
My proposition is that if you are a visitor and the posts on my blog has helped you in some way or another please just give a simple "thanks" on the comments. Moreover, I've decided that "if" I ever earn money through the ads on this blog, it will go to those who need it most, or to an organization you recommend.
Above-all of this, its just notes I take throughout the week, but if it gives God the glory, then why not?

Monday, May 9, 2011

Getting Past Your Past, Week 1, Breaking the Labels that Bind

Usually we can't forgive ourselves for our past even though God has forgiven us.

In life people would label us, like Winnie the Pooh, Attilla the Hun, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, etc..

WHAT NEGATIVE LABEL FOLLOWS YOUR NAME?
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(Your Name) (Label)

God's power is greater than your past.
God's truth is greater than your label.

Today you will get,
A NEW GOD-CENTERED VIEW OF YOU
(2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT)
Become a new person, old gone, new begun...

3 thoughts on our new life :

1. God Will Give You A New (Name).
Isaiah 62:2
Called... a new name... the mouth of the Lord will bestow.

Abram & Sarai to Abraham & Sarah.
We all have new names that God has given or will give.
We might feel that we don't deserve the new name because we're the exact opposite of our new name,
But we will grow into our new names.
Though we won't feel it, we will grow into it.

2. God Will Give You A New (Purpose).
Like Peter who was a fisherman but became the fisher of men.
Matthew 16:17-18
Simon was renamed as Peter, the rock, on which Christ's church will be built and the gates of Hell cannot overcome it.

We all know that Peter messed up so many times, moreover, denying Jesus three times.
But Peter worked on it, and grew into his name.
On Pentacost because of him many were saved.
He didn't start of as a rock but he grew into it and died as one.

You will receive a new name, and from that new name you will be given a new purpose.

3. God Will Give You A New (Future).

Jeremiah 29:11

We feel like were failures, divorcees/ers, unable to engage with our family, in debt, loveless, wronged.
But God has a plan for us, He plans to prosper us, not harm us, plans to give us hope and a future.

Like in Joshua, Rehab, the prostitute who risked her life to protect the 2 spies and by doing that God changed her heart, and He used her to bring in a important people through, and those important people happened to be David, Solomon, and Jesus. If God can use some one so broken like Rehab, He definitely can use us.

Don't let any label hold us back.

Philippians 3:13-14
Forget your past that is straining our future..
Press on to your goal to win the price which God has for us.

Through Christ you are made new.

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