Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Break with the past. Do not allow the past to hold
you back. Do not expend your energy trying to fix what does not work. The past
cannot be changed. Stop holding on to the past; do not allow your past bleed
into your present to change your future. Do not allow the past to misdirect
your life. The potential, the success inside you is greater than the previous
and present successes you have experienced – Isaiah Chapter 43 verses 18 to
19.Therefore, do not let either past successes or adversity stop you from being
the best you can be. Don’t let life make you change your name. Simply learn the
lessons required from the past.
Be optimistic. Trust God when it looks like things
are going backwards. Get to the point where you can trust God to let things go.
It takes great peace to accept the times you are in. You may be aborting your
own prophecies because you are trying to save what God has already cut off.
Some blessings are seasonal blessings and once such seasons are over, you let
go. God brings people into your life to do certain things. When their
assignment is over, let them go and move on. The plan is a process leading to
the purpose. Therefore, celebrate the new relationships in your life as well as
what God is doing in your life now.
Your future is determined by the decisions taken
now. Faith helps you make the choices for the future. When you make choices by
faith, faith creates the future by canceling out the past. Your faith will
bring the things that have not come to you now. Please see John Chapter 2 verse
5.
Faith must therefore be active in your
life. Jabez became a biblical reference on prosperity in spite of the name he
was called because he turned to God to reverse the consequences of that name so
that rather than pain and sorrow accompanying him, God's goodness and
prosperity would always accompany him. It is instructive that God honored his
prayer and not only made him prosperous but Jabez also became a reference for
all such people to emulate.
As God in His infinite mercy and grace crosses you
over into a new year of great grace and
greater glory, it is my prayer that you will consciously and in a very
determined manner move on to progressive thinking and actions. Do not think or
act backwards. Rather concentrate on now by making godly life transforming
choices. Focus on the goal you have set out to attain, pay attention to the
goal and ask God how and when to build and cross bridges as the need arises for
you to attain the goal. Also ask God for directions on how to and where to
create paths in the desert as well as streams in the wastelands. Please, see
Isaiah Chapters 43 verses 16 to 21, 41 verses 17 to 20. Go in and take
possession of the land that the Lord swore He would give to you. Forget the
former things and advance into the new things God is doing in your life.
See you at Success Street, Shalom.
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