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YOUR PAST IS A PULLEY



Past is one thing that every person on this earth is making every day without their knowledge. Sometimes we find this past to be good and sometimes to be bad, but no matter how it is we can never change it, that is the power the past has. it is likely that this past of a person has a lot of influence on the very person’s present and their future, their decisions, their lifestyle, the way they react to certain situations and so on. You could have even heard about certain people who took the biggest decision of their life because of a particular event that took place in their life. Some people even say that the reason behind their great success is one speech they heard or something like that. 

Many-a-times we fail to realize the power the past has on us and how that can affect us in ways we would have never imagined. Even the bible talks about this “past” we are talking about. In the book of Acts chapter 9 verses 36 – 41 we see how Peter bring a dead woman back to life by the power of Jesus Christ. If we would closely read the scripture from verse 39 to 40.
So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them. But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.                   Acts 9:39-40 
Here Peter is shown the tunics and the other garments that Dorcas made while she was with the widows. But, in response to all that they showed to Peter puts them out. Here the tunics and garments made by Dorcas refer to her past, cause that’s what she was doing when she was living. Although it was not something bad, Peter puts it out of the room. Because sometimes your past is what stops your breakthrough. It the past that we are dwelling on that keeps us decaying on the inside, making us die slowly and rot us completely of all the goodness kept in us. The past has a hard grip on us and only we have the ability to let go it. We cannot ask anyone else to do it for us. 

In this passage, we see that as soon as the past that related to Dorcas left the room Peter prayed and brought the woman back to life. This is the reason why God, in the book of Isaiah, says

 Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.

 And Paul when writing to the Philippians says this,

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 

As you reading this, can I encourage you to let go of your past be it good or bad or nice or chaotic or however it is. But take the decision to always look to God and let the past you make from now on be the past that God wants you to make that is in the center of his will. It will be tough, as you take this decision it is highly likely that you will go through situations where people will question your past or you will be confronted of your past, but even still ask the Holy Spirit to give you the strength to go through all that and stand for God, because at the end of the day it’s only about you and God and not about you and them.

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