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The Power of a Praying Woman
Don’t Look Back
Once you step out of the past it’s important you don’t keep looking over your shoulder to see if it’s following you. That’s what Lot’s wife did, and it paralyzed her. It will paralyze you too. And it will de?nitely slow you down in the race. Good runners look forward and keep focused on the goal. Even if you have never had one bad thing happen to you in your life, or you have been completely delivered from every negative memory you ever had, you still need to pray to be free of your past. That’s because even the good things of your past can keep you from allowing God to do a new thing now. If we get locked into what we did before, we may miss what God wants to do now. God is always wanting to take you to a new place in your life, and you will keep Him from doing that if you are hanging on to the way things have always been done. He will never allow us to rest on past success. If we rely on the way things have always been done, we aren’t relying on Him. And that’s the whole point. I guarantee that no matter how old you are, God has something new He wants to do in your life. Ask Him to show you what that is. Tell Him you intend to stay in the race and you don’t want t