Thursday, October 4, 2012

PONDERING ON THE PAST


Good Morning, Mighty Woman of God!

I speak blessings of peace and joy upon your life. No matter what you are going through in your life that the Lord is working it out for your good.
 
(Philippians 3:13-14), Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
 
Woman of God, the Lord wants you to keep pressing forward towards Him.  Yesterday is the past and whatever you have done wrong, keep pressing towards the present.  Whatever issues you have had to deal with, keep pressing forwards towards Him, which is your high calling.  Sometimes at the end of the day, we all tend to look back and ponder over all the things that we did earlier.  We think about what we could have done to make something better or we ponder on what we could have done to make someone else's life better.  Did you say the wrong thing?  Did you do the wrong things?  Why is this person mad at us?  Whatever the question is at the end of the day, don't ponder on it, it is the end of the day.  You can never go back.  Don't ponder on the broken promises that you have made to the Lord.  He already knew it was going to happen, so He is not mad about it.  So Christ is not sitting at the right hand of God the Father, saying, "I didn't know she would do that, she caught me be surprise".
 
Maybe you have done something so horrible in your past and you are constantly asking for the Lord's forgiveness.  He has already forgiven you, you have to forgive yourself.  That is the past and the Lord does not want you to ponder on the past.  The Lord's desire for you is that you press towards the mark and finish the race that you have already started.  This is the one thing that Paul does, reaching for the things that are ahead of him.  You have to reach towards the blessings that God has for you.  If you are pondering on the past, then you are looking backwards and you cannot see what God has for your future (what's in your future).
 
Always try to do better each day that the Lord has blessed you with another day.  But never ponder on what has already happened.  Pray for the Lord's forgiveness and move on, that is what the Lord is doing, forgetting and moving you on to the future.  If you have done something or said something that doesn't sit well with you at the end of the day, you should apologize to that person and keep moving forward.  Pondering on a horrible past or things that you may have lost or gained because of your past, move forward.  The Lord is not pondering on your past, you should not ponder on your past either. PRAISE GOD! AMEN!