We all have had negative things happen to us, people did us wrong. It's easy to go through life blaming others, blaming ourselves, even blaming God and because we're always looking back, reliving the negative, we end up carrying around all this baggage that weighs us down. One of the best things we can learn to do is drop it, let it go.
One of the best things we can learn to do is drop it, let it go. Whether it happened 20 years ago or 20 minutes ago, don't carry negative baggage from yesterday into today.
You won't live a victorious life if you're always reliving what didn't work out, who hurt you, the mistakes you've made.
The reason it's called the past is because it's over. It's done, it's history, now do your part and let it go.
They hurt you once, don't let them continue to hurt you by always thinking about it. As long as you're dwelling on that, it's going to keep you from the new things God wants to do.
God said he would give you beauty for those ashes. He said he would pay you back for that injustice but you have to drop the hurt, quit dwelling on it, quit reliving it, move forward.
There is a new beginning in front of you but God will not release new opportunities as long as we're holding on to you may have a lot of negative things in your past.
Everything you've gone through has deposited something on the inside.
You're not defined by your past, you're prepared by your past. You may not realize it, but you came out stronger, with more confidence, greater experience.
If that hadn't have happened, you wouldn't be prepared for the new levels that are coming your way.
Don't have that "Poor old me, look what I've been through" attitude.
you can be pitiful or you can be powerful, but you cannot be both
you can't do anything about yesterday. Living guilty and condemned doesn't make it any better. You have to drop it.
If you'll get rid of that negative baggage, you'll not only feel that heaviness release off of you, but then you'll step into the new things that God has in store.
The scripture says where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom, not where the Spirit of the Lord was.
If you're always thinking about yesterday, last month, last year, there's no freedom there. That's where the Spirit of the Lord was.
This is a new day. There are new victories, new opportunities, new relationships.
Quit living in what was and come over into what is. Right now, there is freedom for you. Right now, there are new beginnings, joy, peace, victory and crying over what happened yesterday doesn't bring freedom.
Living in regrets of what you could have been, what you should have done doesn't do anything productive.
Being offended, angry, upset over what didn't work out will only keep you in mediocrity.
It's time to drop it and move forward. You may be a product of your past, but you don't have to be a prisoner of your past.
Nothing that's happened to you is a surprise to God.
Before he laid out the plan for your life, he already knew every person who would hurt you, every mistake you would make, every loss you would go through and the good God has already arranged a comeback.
For every disappointment, a new beginning. For every failure, restoration. For all the ashes, he has beauty.
You have to put your foot down and say, "That's it. I may have gone through some disappointments. I may have made some mistakes, but I'm not going to waste the time I have left worried about what I could have done better, bitter over who hurt me, upset over what didn't work out. I'm stepping out of the was and I'm coming over into the is. I'm dropping the offense, dropping the guilt, dropping the failure, dropping the hurt. I'm not living my life with any more baggage. I'm going to live my life free".
if somebody hurt you, if you'll give it to God, he'll by your vindicator
if you've made mistakes, and we all have, quit beating yourself up and receive God's mercy
"God, I don't understand it, but I trust you. I'm not going to live bitter, I'm not going to go through life looking in my rearview mirror. I'm going to keep moving forward saying that my best days are still up ahead".
Ecclesiastes says, "Better is the end than the beginning". You may have had a rough start, but you don't have to have a rough finish. Better is the end.
Maybe you went through a disappointment, somebody broke your heart, the medical report wasn't good, don't get stuck on what happened yesterday.
God is saying, something better is coming.
There maybe some rough places in the middle, but don't stay focused on that, better is coming.
God says, something better is coming. Now don't cancel out the better by living in yesterday, reliving your hurts, your failures, the disappointments.
If your mind is always in yesterday, you're going to move in that direction.
You can't go forward looking backwards.
If you're always thinking about who hurt you and what didn't work out, reliving your failures, calling people telling them how bad things is, you're going to get stuck.
Receive this into your spirit, better is coming. Joy is coming, healing is coming, breakthroughs are coming, victory is coming.
Paul said it this way in philippians, "I focus all of my energies on this one thing, forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead"
if we went through life carrying negative baggage, we would miss our destiny,
sometimes we spend more energy holding on to the negative than we do letting it go.
How do you drop it? Stop thinking about it and stop talking about it. Don't relive the negative things that have happened to you.
If you're going to get free, you need to not only drop it, you need to bury it, have a funeral for it, put it away once and for all, make a decision you're going to talk about it another time. When you're tempted to, just zip it up.
That betrayal, that failure, that disappointment is dead. You buried it, you had a funeral, it's over, it's done. It's in the past.
When you're bitter, you push people away. When you're offended, angry, living guilty, it pushes opportunities away. You have to get the stink out of your life, leave the baggage.
Sometimes when we stink, we don't know it. When we carry around bitterness, unforgiveness, guilty, anger, you may not realize it, but that's stinking up your life. That's pushing people and opportunities away. Why don't you get the stinky stuff out?
There's an amazing future in front of you.
There's beauty for ashes, joy for mourning, dancing for heaviness, but you gotta move forward.
Maybe you need to bury a mistake you've made, you've lived guilty, condemned, down on yourself long enough. Have a funeral for it and put it behind you.
No more talking about it, no more letting the accuser convince you that you're just a failure, you don't deserve to be blessed, you're unworthy. Those lies will stink up your life.
Don't let the defeat play in your mind.
When the failure, the mistake, the guilty, the disappointment comes back up on the movie screen in your mind, do yourself a favor, change the channel.
"I'm not going backwards. I'm not living in regrets. I'm not rehearsing my failures. I'm moving forward. I may have made some mistakes, but I've got a promise better is the end".
If you'll get your mind going forward, your life will go forward.
How much time and energy are you giving to the negative things of your past, hurts, wounds, failures, disappointments. You only have so much emotional energy each day. When you are spending that energy on negative things, that's energy you should be using to move forward.
You have to come out of what was and come into what is.
You can't have your mind in yesterday and expect to go forward
Mark 11:25. Jesus says in the amplified version. Forgive them and let it drop. Leave it and let it go.
God will fight your battles.
Don't waste another minute being bitter
Drop It, Leave It, Let It Go
It may not have been fair but God saw what happened. He is a God of justice, He promised He will make your wrongs right.
God, I trust you to be my vindicator. I trust you to open the right doors, I trust you to get me to where I am suppose to be
Life is too short to carry around negative baggage. Your destiny is too important, your time is too valuable to go through the day weighed down by offense, by guilt, by disappointment, by hurts. You have to make this decision to not only drop it but to leave it.
When you carry around negative baggage year after year, you are not harming the other person, it is contaminating your own life. You won't have the creativity, the blessing, the favor that you should
You need to drop it, leave it, let it go. When you do, God will heal your hurts, God will restore your broken places, God will pay you back for the injustice.
When you hold on to the bitterness, unforgiveness, guilts, actually you are not holding it. But it is holding you. That poison will lead you down the wrong path.
Don't play games with negative baggage, bitterness, unforgiveness, guilts. Drop it and let it go.
We are never going to understand everything. Don't get caught up in the whys of life. The scripture says we see in part now, like looking through a glass dimly but one day we will see in full. One day it will be clear.
If you are always trying to figure out why everything happens, you are going to end up bitter, frustrated. The best thing you can do is just leave it alone.
If God wants you to understand why, He is God, He will tell you why. But if He is not revealing that to you, you need to be smart enough to let it go.
Some things God doesn't want us to know. The scripture says it is God's privilege to conceal things. If you are going to trust God, you have to accept there is going to be unanswered questions.
We have to be big enough to say God, I don't understand why this happened but I am ok with not understanding why. I don't have to have all the answers. You are God and I am not. I trust that your plans for me are for good, that you know what you are doing.
Don't exchange what you do know for what you don't know. What we do know is God is good, that He is for us, that He is loving, that He is merciful. Don't let one situation that we don't understand cancel all that out.
Quit trying to figure it all out and go back to what you do know. You do know God has you in the palms of His hands. You do know God wouldn't have allowed it if some how some way He wasn't going to bring good out of it.
When something comes up that doesn't make sense, you can't find an answer to, instead of getting bitter, frustrated. Just put it in your "I don't understand it" file and keep moving forward.
If you make the mistake of going through life trying to figure out why everything happens, that is going to poison your future.
Sometimes it is better to leave things alone. If you are always probing around your hurts, your wounds, your failures because you are keeping it so stirred up you are never going to get well. You have to turn it over to God and say "God, I don't understand it but I am not going to keep probing all around. God, I trust you. My life is in your hands"
God wants to do something new but you have to let go of the old
Don't hold on to things that is going to poison your future
Focus your energy on forgetting what lies behind
Today can be a turning point. Make this decision to get rid of your negative baggage, you are not only going to drop it but you are going to leave it.
God is going to give you beauty for ashes, He is going to heal your hurt. Like Ecclesiastes says, something better is coming, joy is coming, favor is coming. The fullness of your destiny, in Jesus's name.