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Authors: Joyce Meyer
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mentality, telling yourself
Well, I just can’t trust anyone. I can never have a healthy relationship because of the dysfunction of my past
, or
I am no good
, embrace the healing power of God in your life. You are a new person. He is healing every wound and restoring what you lost. In fact, He is going to give you double blessings for the things that were taken from you (see Isaiah 61:7). If you were hurt in the past, that doesn’t make you a victim for the rest of your life. You can overcome that pain and live an overcoming, victorious life. You are a new creation in Christ, full of new strength and new hope. Remember, your history is not your destiny!
You can confidently go through each day knowing you’re stronger than you used to be, because every day God is doing a great work in your life. Thatdoesn’t mean you’ve accomplished everything you want to accomplish, and it doesn’t mean you do everything perfectly now, but it does mean you can have a new hope. A hope that inspires you to say, like Paul: “Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own” (Philippians 3:12).
You can confidently go through each day knowing you’re stronger than you used to be, because every day God is doing a great work in your life
.
Don’t spend another day saying “I can’t do it,” “I won’t make it,” or “I’m not good enough.” Those are hopeless words. Maybe those things described the old you, but they certainly don’t describe the new you in Christ. You are a child of God. You are more than a conqueror. You are the head and not the tail. You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
The New You Has an Inheritance
When you became a believer, you came into a new family—the family of God. Now you have brothers and sisters in Christ who understand what you’re going through and who can encourage you along the way, and you have a heavenly Father who will never leave you. One of the many blessings you receive from your heavenly Father is an inheritance. Ephesians 1:18 says:
By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones)… (emphasis added)
Through Christ, an inheritance is provided for each of us. That means we’re not hired servants working to earn something from God, but we are His children and we are inheritors. As joint heirs with Christ, we get what He earned and sacrificed for us. The Bible saysthat everything that is His is now ours (see John 16:15). And when you realize you have an inheritance from God, it changes the way you view things. Your problems don’t seem as big, your frustrations don’t seem as significant, the future doesn’t seem so frightening—you can be joyful and full of hope, because God has already provided everything you need!
As joint heirs with Christ, we get what He earned and sacrificed for us. The Bible says that everything that is His is now ours (see John 16:15)
.
We serve a good God, and He wants to flood your life with good things. If you go through each day worrying about how a bill is going to be paid, afraid you’re not going to get the promotion at work, bitter about what someone said behind your back, you’re not living like a child who understands you have an inheritance. Worry, fear, and bitterness are character traits of the old you. The new you can trust, be confident, and forgive, because you believe God can take anything that happens to you and work it out for your good—He has good things stored up for you. If someone else gets that promotion, God obviously has something better for you. Don’t worry or get depressed. Embrace the new you—realize you have a great inheritance
Well, I just can’t trust anyone. I can never have a healthy relationship because of the dysfunction of my past
, or
I am no good
, embrace the healing power of God in your life. You are a new person. He is healing every wound and restoring what you lost. In fact, He is going to give you double blessings for the things that were taken from you (see Isaiah 61:7). If you were hurt in the past, that doesn’t make you a victim for the rest of your life. You can overcome that pain and live an overcoming, victorious life. You are a new creation in Christ, full of new strength and new hope. Remember, your history is not your destiny!
You can confidently go through each day knowing you’re stronger than you used to be, because every day God is doing a great work in your life. Thatdoesn’t mean you’ve accomplished everything you want to accomplish, and it doesn’t mean you do everything perfectly now, but it does mean you can have a new hope. A hope that inspires you to say, like Paul: “Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own” (Philippians 3:12).
You can confidently go through each day knowing you’re stronger than you used to be, because every day God is doing a great work in your life
.
Don’t spend another day saying “I can’t do it,” “I won’t make it,” or “I’m not good enough.” Those are hopeless words. Maybe those things described the old you, but they certainly don’t describe the new you in Christ. You are a child of God. You are more than a conqueror. You are the head and not the tail. You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
The New You Has an Inheritance
When you became a believer, you came into a new family—the family of God. Now you have brothers and sisters in Christ who understand what you’re going through and who can encourage you along the way, and you have a heavenly Father who will never leave you. One of the many blessings you receive from your heavenly Father is an inheritance. Ephesians 1:18 says:
By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones)… (emphasis added)
Through Christ, an inheritance is provided for each of us. That means we’re not hired servants working to earn something from God, but we are His children and we are inheritors. As joint heirs with Christ, we get what He earned and sacrificed for us. The Bible saysthat everything that is His is now ours (see John 16:15). And when you realize you have an inheritance from God, it changes the way you view things. Your problems don’t seem as big, your frustrations don’t seem as significant, the future doesn’t seem so frightening—you can be joyful and full of hope, because God has already provided everything you need!
As joint heirs with Christ, we get what He earned and sacrificed for us. The Bible says that everything that is His is now ours (see John 16:15)
.
We serve a good God, and He wants to flood your life with good things. If you go through each day worrying about how a bill is going to be paid, afraid you’re not going to get the promotion at work, bitter about what someone said behind your back, you’re not living like a child who understands you have an inheritance. Worry, fear, and bitterness are character traits of the old you. The new you can trust, be confident, and forgive, because you believe God can take anything that happens to you and work it out for your good—He has good things stored up for you. If someone else gets that promotion, God obviously has something better for you. Don’t worry or get depressed. Embrace the new you—realize you have a great inheritance
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