Grace Point! February 2015 | Page 5

A Journey to Sometimes, we feel as though we are walking in a very narrow place, where the slightest misstep will create the sinking feeling that we have been there before. Too often, we let aspects of our past control our present environments, which in turn, affects our future. Only the enemy would attempt to keep us in a negative place, to keep us feeling defeated. When the children of Israel came to the Red Sea, with Pharaoh barreling down on them from behind, God said to “Go forward!” God’s plan is for us to be victorious over the enemy. And that happens by learning from our past, not living in it. It happens by moving forward, toward the goal He has put in our lives. This requires prayer for guidance and insightful revelations to aid us in this journey. I don’t know about anyone else, but when my past rises up against me, it looks something like this: Nasty, slimy, ugly, and foul; and none of that is Godly. This translates into anger, envy, resentment, and a bad attitude. Now, who would want to be around that? Only our enemy, and he will feed it with more and more negative thoughts and actions until we turn it loose to Jesus, which will send it back to the depths from which it came. Let’s put our past back where it came from: the past! So that we may walk with God unhindered and untethered, loosed from a burden placed on us by the enemy. a publication of Ruth Ministries-The Virtuous Woman,TM a woman's restoration ministry/a segment of Philippi Prospect Ministries TM 5