I love Day 2!
Let Your Mess Become Your Message
I encourage people to let go
of their past, but never to run from it. The only way to gain victory
over the pain of our past is to let God walk us back through that
doorway of pain and into victory. No one can achieve victory for us; we
have to work out our own salvation. Paul explained this truth in his
letter to the Philippian church, saying:
"Therefore, my dear ones . . . work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ). [Not in your own strength] for it is God
Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating
in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good
pleasure and satisfaction and delight" (PHILIPPIANS 2:12,13 AMP).
We have to let God take us through things and let Him work in us so our mess becomes our message. Difficult things that we have endured in our past prepare us for God's blessings in our future. (I am going to blog about this later today!)
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding
as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image
from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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