letting go the past

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Comment by Milly Wambo on March 22, 2010 at 2:28pm

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end they are new every morning .. new every morning great is their his steadfast love

Comment by Pastor Bob B on March 17, 2010 at 12:29am

Comment by Pastor Bob B on March 5, 2010 at 5:38pm

Gina in your brief comment I can tell that you have been through a storm in your life. You most likely felt like you received a breath of fresh air.

Father touch Gina's heart right now and give her a new hope and vision for her life. Help her to know that you are with her and that she is your beloved. Give her a fresh start and enable her to leave the past in the past and not bring it into the present. In Jesus name amen

Comment by Gina on March 5, 2010 at 9:55am

i have a feeling that this group is really going to help me alot

Comment by Pastor Bob B on March 1, 2010 at 5:06am

COMFORTED AND CONSOLED
by Robert Bushman

“Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the LORD had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold.” ( Job 42:11 NAS )

COMFORTED AND CONSOLED BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS

The first thing to note about this story is that the occasion that is described here is a family gathering. Job's brothers and sisters and all his friends who had known him before are getting together. By this time Job is a seventy-year-old man or even older, and though his own children had all perished, he could have had grandchildren and great-grandchildren by now.

Job's family and friends gathered to comfort him and to express sympathy and understanding for all the pain and suffering he had been going through.

My uncle had an accident recently, and he was paralyzed. His town got together with his family and had a community dinner and collected money to help do some work on their home( to widen front door, add a wheel chair ramp)so he would be able to return to his home. This was the same kind of compassionate help that Job's family was doing for him. This act of love must have blessed God's heart.

These friends and family members gave to Job gifts of silver and gold. In the Bible these two metals are used symbolically as a picture of redemption. Silver is the sign of redemption, and gold is the picture of Deity; God redeeming His people.


CALLED TO COMFORT AND CONSOLE

Let us beware of the mistakes that Job's three friends made and were rebuked of God. It is not our place to stand as judges over one another when some one is going through trials. They might, or might not be responsible. Our Job is to bring God redeeming love into the situation.

Our God is a God of restoration. Many of His plans, purposes, and great works deal with the process of restoring. The whole purpose of the life of Jesus Christ here on earth, and especially His death and resurrection, was one of restoration.

Jesus didn't just restore us to relationship with God, His work of restoration was much more profound than that; it reached every area of every life of those who have accepted Him as Lord. According to the dictionary, the word "restore" means "return to its original condition."

“So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.” (Job 42:12-13)

Job's restoration, began with God, then with the comfort and consolation from his family and friends. We are all part Gods plan of restoration in others lives. This is our greatest ministry, the ministry of reconciling others to God.

“Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.” ( 2 Corinthians 5:18 )

THE COMFORTER AND Consoler

As part of God's plan of restoration, which He wrought through Jesus Christ, we now have the Holy Spirit( The comforter ) to be our teacher, comforter, and guide. We have the Holy Spirit available to us, it's part of the restoration work of Christ.

“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:”(John 14:26 )

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (John 15:26 )

Conclusion
So in conclusion, we have a calling in our lives to be part of Gods comforting and consoling ministry for our family and friends, and to a lost and hurting world.. God is in the restoration business, and we can be a part of it if we will live our lives as restorers, instead of judges.

Comment by George Trujillo on February 28, 2010 at 4:01pm

The greatest things we can in forgetting the past, is truly forgive yourself, then truly forgive people which rejected,or came agains't. These, realeases communication with Holy Spirit, giving blessings beyond imagination.

Comment by Dawn M on February 9, 2010 at 11:59am

Trebia, get the book Healed without scars by David Evans. From personal experience you must learn to forgive. Don't hold onto something in the past that is eating away at you. Let go and let God. Ask God to renew your mind.Through the renewal of the mind, God will replace your depressive heaviness with a new kind of Praise. He will restore your will to rebuild your life. By the power of the Holy Spirit, you will be able to begin again. Joel 2:25 says " in His word that he is a redeemer of time. he says that he will return to you the years, the time that have been consumed by the adversity". Jesus was sent to earth by the Father to be a healer and mender of lives. He declared that the Spirit of the Lord was upon Him to heal hearts that have been broken and to repair lives that have benn torn apart by disappointment and grief. Read Luke 4:18. I will keep you in prayer. Letting go of the past is a hard thing to do sometimes. It will consume us. But once you let go and let God, you will see the wonderful blessings He has in store for you. The bible says to cast your cares and burdens on Him and He will give you rest. Stay blessed my sister and don't let the devil steal what was given to you by our Heavenly Father.

Comment by Ms. Butterfly on February 8, 2010 at 2:15am

hi, do anyone recommend scriptures on letting go of the past?

Comment by Dawn M on February 7, 2010 at 11:27pm

Amen. Nicely put.

Comment by Nicole Long on February 5, 2010 at 7:44am

My favorite scripture is Rom. 8:28 (my youngest thinks that is the only one I know I quote it so much!) We know that all things work together for good to them that love God to the called according to His purpose. If you had no trauma in your past, how would you learn and be a living testimony for your future? How would you learn that you can overcome through Christ? He has promised to never leave or forsake us. He has promised that He would put no more on us than we could bear. He has promised that we are more than conqueorors...... our past helps to shape us into the individuals we are today. It can either make us bitter or better. Bitter leads to destruction. Better leads to abundant life.

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