Struggling With Past Sins?

Are you struggling with some past sins. Many people do not have mastery over their past sins. Although they have sought forgiveness from God, they still feel emotional each time they remember it.

All of us have something in our past which we needed to repent. Some individuals could seemingly go through life without looking back, having repented of their sins. Others who have committed equally grave sins and experienced the same forgiveness find themselves unable to forget. Why is that so? Psychologists believed it has got to do with the sensitivity and the make-up of their personality. Perhaps the cause may be due to their low self-esteem or worth. The person often feels that he or she is too “evil” to be forgiven. Or could it be our “pride” or Satan’s tactics to cause the person to think that “How could it ever happen to me?”

All of us struggle in life. But if our past sins bring us misery, then I want you to know that God can help us to put our past in its right perspective. Even though we may not necessary forget the awful thing we did in the past, we will not be emotionally overwhelmed by it, because we have experienced the joy of “real forgiveness: from God. It is possible to remember a negative event without reliving it.

Despite our past, we must move forward as a forgiven man, knowing that God does not remember a sin that has been forgiven. If God is not holding it against us, then why should we?

Heb 10:7 “..Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more”
1 John 1:9 – “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins”.
Psalm 86:5 – “For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.”
Psalm 103:3 -“Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases”

Live Life To Its Fullest

Do you desire to live and to live life to its fullest. This should be our desire and motivation.

Our relationship with our Lord should stir within us the desire to live fuller and better lives….the abundant life that He speaks of in John 10:10. It is not mere willpower, but a life that is mastered by the Holy Spirit.

What masters us? Is it fear and worry? Is it carnal desires? Is it self-pity, disappointment, bitterness or resentment? Take heart. God’s powers is more than a match for every situation if you yield your life to Him.

Fear and worry often master us. “Do not fret”, we are instructed in Psalm 37:8, “it leads only to evil”. Fretting or worrying is destructive. What begins a fret soon becomes a threat – a threat to your life as well as a threat to your spiritual poise. In God’s Name, they should be rooted out at all costs.

Memorize these verses, appropriate them and apply them in your life.

1. I Am More Than A Conqueror
Rom 8:37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us

2. At My Command, The Devil Flees
James 4:7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

3. Sin Shall Have No Dominion Over Me
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace

4. The Greater One Is In Me
I Jn 4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

5. I Can Do Greater Works For the Greater One Is In Me
John 14:12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.

6. I Can Do All Things Required of Me
Phil 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

7. I Have Total Success For The Total Being
3 Jn 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

Turning The Odds In Your Life

“Everything is permissible for me…but I will not be mastered by anything” (1 Cor 6:12)

What are the things that are mastering over us and putting us under the control. We need to pray to God and through His grace and power to gain mastery over them. In other words, we are going to turn the odds or the tables against us.

As we read 1 Cor 6:12-20, Paul tells us that he would not be mastered by anything. But rather he was mastered by none other than the Master Himself.

Could this be our life’s purpose? To have our life mastered by Jesus Christ? A life that is not mastered by the Master himself will be mastered by material things, disappointments, circumstances and the host of it.

Life often has its share of pain and disappointments, ups and down, with a set of circumstances. Although, life may not be rosy, but I believe that as you commit your life unto Him and acknowledge His Lordship and submit unto Him, He will surely grant you strength to master over them.

God can break every shackle, every bondage that binds us, whether is the pull of our carnal nature or that of the devil himself. It is not a change in our external circumstances that we need, but rather it is a change within ourselves. Self-mastery will not achieve this but divine mastery will. Make up your mind to submit to that divine mastery – beginning today.