WORD OF THE WEEK...

WORD OF THE WEEK:

Many Will DIE in the WILDERNESS!!! 7:49am
Dying in the Wilderness

Phil. 3:13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not all I should
be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting
the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, New Literal Translation

There is something very important that we must remember
in our walk with Christ. God is always ahead of us and the
enemy is always behind us! This is good to know because
God always shows you the future and the enemy always
reminds you of the past. You cannot go forward while looking
backwards. This is what happened to the children of Israel
and why they wandered around for so many years not
making any progress. Why? Because they didn’t want to let
go of their past and move forward. God allowed them to
walk in literal circles until they died and he took their children
into the promised land because they kept making references
to Egypt and how, even though they were slaves, tortured,
and killed by Egyptians, they at least had food and water!!!

That sounds like many of us today, holding on to things that
are literally killing us, but we can’t seem to let go. People
in our lives that are sent by the devil and we know they are
sent by the devil, we yet keep them around and can’t let go.
Even things or people that God has warned us about, we
can’t seem to shake. Or, positions, jobs, etc. that we constantly
hold on to because it’s “better than nothing”. Well, how long
will you wander around in the wilderness before you let go of
your past and move on? Many of us can’t move on because
our past is in our future’s place!! And many will die without
ever seeing the promise of God for their life. Are you making
big plans to die in the wilderness? I don’t think the Israelites
planned their demise either, but looking back stopped their
forward progress. I encourage you to stop focusing on where
you have been and what you have done in the past. God is a
future God! He deals with now and forever, not back then.
Don’t let the devil make you feel that your past is significant
anymore because God is in front of you coaching your forward
progress while the enemy is behind you, begging you to turn
around.

Suggested Reading: Ex. 14:15, Deut. 9:12, Josh. 5:4, Phil. 3:14