As people, we have a past...but as God...he chooses not to remember out past against us. If you come to him, if you call on him, if you take him as your Lord and Savior...he says you are a new creation...you are made new in him, you have a blank slate...and you start fresh. That means anything you did...is as far as the east is from the west in God's book...

Now, that doesnt mean that Satan isn't going to throw your past in your face every chance he gets...and that isn't to say that people are not going to recall the past to mind...but that does mean that YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO SAY "I'm made new by my Lord Jesus" you have no past, only a present and a future...and they both reside in the precious savior Jesus Christ.

Isn't that wonderful. Isn't that just absolutely amazing!!

I was regretting the past and

fearing the future

Yes, see that right there was me. All those icky years growing up...all those dark times (that have not been to long gone)...I was living in a past that others had given me, and that Satan wanted to keep me bound in chains with.  And I wasn't excersing my power in Christ...See, not only is the past that you have made for yourself gone in God's eyes...but all those things that have brought you grief, strife, pain, etc. through the years that were passed to you from others...God takes that too...and you don't have to hold it anymore...if you'll just release it to him. I was letting Satan tell me that my past was all I had...and that the present was hopeless, and the future held nothing but darkness and death...now come...does that sound like something God would want his child thinking on all the time? Does that sound like "think on things that are pure, and just, and holy" ??? I don't think so...Satan had me in one wadoozie of a web. Thank God for prayer warriors, and stubborn ol' Christian women who don't give up on the people in their life...I had lovely people standing in the gap for me in my spiritual (and physical) life. I am truly thankful.

The little poem I posted at the very beginning "I AM"...A friend of mine sent that to me in a card over a year (possibly closer to 2 yrs) ago. I was in the middle of one of those very dark times struggling with a past that I couldn't seem to let go of. Those words were a comfort to me then, and I hope they can be a comfort to someone else now. I hope it will let you know that when God said YOU ARE FREE...then he really meant it...and you are in fact free. Those that the Lord set free are free indeed!! Don't let the enemy try and tell you anything different either (because he is bound and determined to try and make you believe him)!! You don't have to listen to that old devil lie to you like that.

Don't try living with the "I WAS" or the "I WILL BE"...We cannot change what went on yesterday, and we have no control over what goes on tomorrow, we are not even promised a tomorrow...so try living with the "I AM" in the present, and let him have control. Set your life on cruise control and hand the wheel to God...he's sure to take care of you!! Praise his Holy Name!! He is so AWESOME!!

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigiliant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.