We are walking in today: We Must Allow Our Past To Inform Our Future!!!
Witness renew throughout the Bible: H2318 chadash--to be new, renew, repair; make anew; to repair; to renew oneself
Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew H2318 a right spirit within me.
The Torah testifies...............
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The prophets proclaim..................
1 Samuel 11:14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew H2318 the kingdom there.
The writings bear witness...........................
2 Chronicles 15:8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the
cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed H2318 the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
Lamentations 5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew H2318 our days as of old.
Your Past and Your Potential
A second step in recovering potential is the ability to move beyond your past and to use it to inform and improve your future. All of us have things in our pasts of which we are ashamed. While self-forgiveness takes away the sting of those confessed sins, it does not remove from our minds the memory of those wrongs. We must learn to live with our memories and allow them to be a positive force in our lives.
We must learn to live with our memories and allow them to be a positive force in our lives.
King David, after his sin with Bathsheba, most certainly was haunted by his wrong (see 2 Samuel 11:1–12:25). Overwhelmed by the enormity of his sin, he could have forfeited his potential to serve The Most High as the king of The Most High’s people. Instead, David confessed his sin (see 2 Samuel 12:13 and Psalm 51) and petitioned The Most High:
Create in me a pure heart, O The Most High, and renew a steadfast spirit within me....Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me (Psalm 51:10,12).
Today David is remembered as a man after The Most High’s heart and the greatest king in the history of The Most High’s people.
This same restorative power of The Most High can move you beyond the negative opinions, poor judgments, unhealthy relationships, detrimental environments, and adverse circumstances of your past. No sin is too great for The Most High to forgive. No relationship is beyond His restoration. His healing touch can reach into your worst experiences and show you something you can learn from them. His transforming power can redirect your misguided and harmful actions and enable you to remove yourself from the destructive environments and crippling circumstances that threaten your potential.
No memory is too deep for Him to heal.
No problem is beyond His blessing and power.
No sin is too great for The Most High to forgive.
No relationship is beyond His restoration.
No memory is too deep for Him to heal.
No problem is beyond His blessing and power.
The key to moving beyond all that haunts you from your past is allowing those memories to empower you instead of destroying you. If you were addicted to drugs and you know firsthand the destructive forces they unleash, use your experiences to help those who are at risk today of experiencing the same pain you’ve survived. Make friends with a teenager whose father has walked out on his family. Support a local teen’s club. Speak in your child’s school about the dangers and the deceptions of doing drugs.
If you have a history of getting into fights, learn what sets you off and how you can respond more appropriately to the anger-provoking situations in your life. Find supportive people who can encourage you and help you through tough times. Look for the insecurity in yourself and others that destroys self-esteem and incites verbal and physical exchanges.
If you quit high school because you were pregnant, go back to school and get your diploma. If you did time in prison, befriend a newly released prisoner. If the pressures of being a young single mother caused you to abuse your child, offer to help another young mother who is going through experiences similar to your own.
Discouraging, defeating experiences may be part of your past life, but there is no reason why they must continue to discourage and defeat you. Indeed, they can become stepping stones to the releasing and maximizing of your potential if you are willing to acknowledge your past, to learn from your mistakes, and to allow The Most High’s transforming power to turn your loss into gain. With The Most High’s help, you are capable of rising above your shortcomings and of redeeming your less-than-perfect decisions. He has not given up on you. He’s waiting to see what you will do with the rest of your life. Protect the present and the future from the past by facing the past and moving beyond it. This is an essential element of the journey to recover your potential.
Redeeming the Days of Your Life
The third step to recovering our potential is to redeem the time that is left to us. We cannot undo what is past, but we can make the necessary changes in our lives to permit the wise use of the remainder of our days. Time is The Most High’s gift for accomplishing our purpose and fulfilling our potential. It begins the day we are born and ends when we die.
The length of our physical life matches the days required to fulfill our purpose because The Most High planned for the maturing of our lives within the total days He has allotted to us. Therefore, we have sufficient time to maximize our potential. The question is, Will we waste or use wisely the days The Most High has assigned to our lives? Time is The Most High’s gift for accomplishing our purpose and fulfilling our potential.
The apostle Paul instructs us to “see then that [we] walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil” (Ephesians 5:15-16 NKJV). In other words, we must find our purpose and use our potential to accomplish it. Likewise, we need to consciously refuse to allow procrastination, discouragement, and the other enemies of our potential to induce us to waste even one day of our lives. Whenever we use our time to do things that neither release our potential nor help us progress toward the accomplishment of our purpose, we forfeit or delay the opportunity to reach the excellency and completion The Most High intended for our lives.
Accepting The Most High’s forgiveness and forgiving yourself, moving beyond your past, using your past to inform the future, and redeeming the remaining days of your life are the necessary factors that will permit you to recover your potential. Like the former prisoner who forgave herself for her past and used it to bring life and hope to others, you can replace the hopelessness, bitterness, resentment, anger, and despair in your life with peace, happiness, and fulfillment. Her journey of recovery began when she met Yeshua HaMachiach and accepted His forgiveness for her past. You too must begin to recover your potential by accepting Yeshua as your Savior and by allowing Him to change you. Return to your Manufacturer/Creator for a reassessment of your true potential and begin again. You can replace the hopelessness, bitterness, resentment, anger, and despair of your life with peace, happiness, and fulfillment.
Just as a seed is full of promise and potential, so your life is abundantly loaded with untapped power and purpose. Likewise, just as a seed needs to be related to the soil and to be fed nutrients to maximize its fullest potential, so you are in need of a personal relationship with the Source and Creator of your life. Only The Most High our Abba can restore you to your original purpose and dream, and only He can provide the grace and resources you need to experience true fulfillment. Every product needs to remain related to the manufacturer if it is to maintain its guarantee and warranty. It is more important to be yourself than to be the best.
Principles
1. The Most High created you for a special purpose and gave you the potential to fulfill it.
2. You are a competent, gifted person.
3. You must experience a life-changing encounter with Yeshua HaMachiach if you want to recover your potential.
4. The journey to recovering your potential must include:
• accepting The Most High’s forgiveness,
• forgiving yourself,
• moving beyond your past,
• using your past to inform your future,
• redeeming the remaining days of your life.
No sin is too great for The Most High to forgive.
No relationship is beyond His restoration.
No memory is too deep for Him to heal.
No problem is beyond His blessing and power.
The key to moving beyond all that haunts you from your past is allowing those memories to empower you instead of destroying you. If you were addicted to drugs and you know firsthand the destructive forces they unleash, use your experiences to help those who are at risk today of experiencing the same pain you’ve survived. Make friends with a teenager whose father has walked out on his family. Support a local teen’s club. Speak in your child’s school about the dangers and the deceptions of doing drugs.
If you have a history of getting into fights, learn what sets you off and how you can respond more appropriately to the anger-provoking situations in your life. Find supportive people who can encourage you and help you through tough times. Look for the insecurity in yourself and others that destroys self-esteem and incites verbal and physical exchanges.
If you quit high school because you were pregnant, go back to school and get your diploma. If you did time in prison, befriend a newly released prisoner. If the pressures of being a young single mother caused you to abuse your child, offer to help another young mother who is going through experiences similar to your own.
Discouraging, defeating experiences may be part of your past life, but there is no reason why they must continue to discourage and defeat you. Indeed, they can become stepping stones to the releasing and maximizing of your potential if you are willing to acknowledge your past, to learn from your mistakes, and to allow The Most High’s transforming power to turn your loss into gain. With The Most High’s help, you are capable of rising above your shortcomings and of redeeming your less-than-perfect decisions. He has not given up on you. He’s waiting to see what you will do with the rest of your life. Protect the present and the future from the past by facing the past and moving beyond it. This is an essential element of the journey to recover your potential.
Redeeming the Days of Your Life
The third step to recovering our potential is to redeem the time that is left to us. We cannot undo what is past, but we can make the necessary changes in our lives to permit the wise use of the remainder of our days. Time is The Most High’s gift for accomplishing our purpose and fulfilling our potential. It begins the day we are born and ends when we die.
The length of our physical life matches the days required to fulfill our purpose because The Most High planned for the maturing of our lives within the total days He has allotted to us. Therefore, we have sufficient time to maximize our potential. The question is, Will we waste or use wisely the days The Most High has assigned to our lives? Time is The Most High’s gift for accomplishing our purpose and fulfilling our potential.
The apostle Paul instructs us to “see then that [we] walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil” (Ephesians 5:15-16 NKJV). In other words, we must find our purpose and use our potential to accomplish it. Likewise, we need to consciously refuse to allow procrastination, discouragement, and the other enemies of our potential to induce us to waste even one day of our lives. Whenever we use our time to do things that neither release our potential nor help us progress toward the accomplishment of our purpose, we forfeit or delay the opportunity to reach the excellency and completion The Most High intended for our lives.
Accepting The Most High’s forgiveness and forgiving yourself, moving beyond your past, using your past to inform the future, and redeeming the remaining days of your life are the necessary factors that will permit you to recover your potential. Like the former prisoner who forgave herself for her past and used it to bring life and hope to others, you can replace the hopelessness, bitterness, resentment, anger, and despair in your life with peace, happiness, and fulfillment. Her journey of recovery began when she met Yeshua HaMachiach and accepted His forgiveness for her past. You too must begin to recover your potential by accepting Yeshua as your Savior and by allowing Him to change you. Return to your Manufacturer/Creator for a reassessment of your true potential and begin again. You can replace the hopelessness, bitterness, resentment, anger, and despair of your life with peace, happiness, and fulfillment.
Just as a seed is full of promise and potential, so your life is abundantly loaded with untapped power and purpose. Likewise, just as a seed needs to be related to the soil and to be fed nutrients to maximize its fullest potential, so you are in need of a personal relationship with the Source and Creator of your life. Only The Most High our Abba can restore you to your original purpose and dream, and only He can provide the grace and resources you need to experience true fulfillment. Every product needs to remain related to the manufacturer if it is to maintain its guarantee and warranty. It is more important to be yourself than to be the best.
Principles
1. The Most High created you for a special purpose and gave you the potential to fulfill it.
2. You are a competent, gifted person.
3. You must experience a life-changing encounter with Yeshua HaMachiach if you want to recover your potential.
4. The journey to recovering your potential must include:
• accepting The Most High’s forgiveness,
• forgiving yourself,
• moving beyond your past,
• using your past to inform your future,
• redeeming the remaining days of your life.
Shema Selah do not allow your past to prevent your potential from being fully developed!! Continue and persist in what the Most High has given you to do!!
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