The Holy Spirit in my communion time this morning spoke again about how we address questions of past events that have scared and impacted our lives.

In this conversation the Holy Spirit shared some insight which is very revealing and freeing which helps us deal with the continuous onslaught of satan on our lives to destabilize and confuse our hearts and minds so we are unable to throw him off and lay hold of the promises of God for our lives.

May grace be imparted to you through these words to correctly position yourselves by the Holy Spirit in the confidence of the Lord.

The Holy Spirit wants me to deal with the questions you have about what the past benefits us and how do we forget that because it has made us better and more capable spiritually.

First of all the Holy Spirit talked about dwelling in or living in the past and to stop doing that.

Where you live and what you dwell on are completely different from using an experience to navigate correctly from a mistake.

Of course we are to learn from the past but we are not to live in the trauma of the past and make it our place of abode.

If you always focus on your mistakes you will keep repeating them because you have not changed your posture, you just keep doing the same thing and nothing will shift or change and you will remain stunted.

“Break free from this cycle around your mistakes in Jesus name. It is a robber of future achievement and progress.”

“You need to let go of the pain and trauma of the past and find a new way of walking forward which is what the Holy Spirit will help you find.”

If the Apostle Paul kept looking at how Stephen died and how all the Christians he killed and hurt felt all day long he would never have written any letter to encourage us to live for God and he certainly would not have any revelation to share because he could not look up and see the light because all he meditated on was those past hurts and the anguish of the men He hurt.

However Paul put those sins behind him through repentance and allowed the Lord to show him His mercy and compassion and out of those give him messages of deliverance and help for even us today that enable us to navigate through situations that happen in our lives.

“My point in the Holy Spirit is that allowing the past to haunt you and control your actions and responses means God is unable to use and work with you because you cannot change and if God can’t change your perspective and ultimate action you will remain dead.”

The Lord always offers us the way forward with a thought to make us change direction from a way that is hurting us and making us stagnant.

The Holy Spirit is always in motion doing and accomplishing the will of Jesus and we need to get onboard with Him where He is leading and guiding the Kingdom mandate.

I recall times when I would think on hurts that had been done to me years before and they would just seem to come up at the oddest of times saying the Holy Spirit brings to remembrance all things and the whole incident would play out again and I would feel tempted to touch it and the Holy Spirit would gently say that won’t help anything that’s not me reminding you, but this will cost you a season with more lost time and energy so throw it off and once rebuked it would fizzle out as the nothing it is, which was intended to rob me if I bought into it and made it a priority to follow and meditate on.

No matter what people had done to hurt me how was that going to help me help others and make me in anyway better because it only sought to rake up in me bitterness and anger and the desire to revenge, speak evil against the persons who are no longer in my radar of life and cannot contribute anything to hurt or aid me.

Those situations were gone for good and need not be my focus or drive going forward but pressing forward to meeting a new sphere of people who love and cherish the Lord and who would follow Him fully is what I needed to go after fully and experience the joys of salvation and deliverance that lay ahead of me which would bring glory to the name of the Lord.

I was not talking about going back to those people and making up with them, I was saying get over it and pursue the plan of the Lord for good not evil that brings you to an expected end of glory all around you.

You know satan knows the hearts of men and uses our love for deception to twist things said so we never benefit from the truth.

“Always ask yourself why do I always fall for the lie rather than fall into truth?”

I have to with tenacity go after truth and fight to hold on to it but just fall into the laps of deception or lies not even trying.

Speak to the Holy Spirit about that phenomena and ask Him to help you stop falling to deception and take a hold of truth and refuse to move from it regardless and you will see and observe many changes in your walk with the Lord.

Now to summarize what I have pointed out today from yesterday’s posts: push towards your future, learn the lessons from the past and use them to propel you forward in the Lord who knows all things and will always lead you to profit.

Gain vision and sight from the Holy Spirit and let Him propel you to victory and the Awesome plan of good works Jesus has prepared for you to walk in which will glorify the name of Jesus. Have a resounding day of victory and triumph in Jesus. Amen.