REVERSES

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

^1-3The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

The almighty Father will use life’s reverses to move you forward.

- Barbara Johnson

Are you like me and when you read that little quote you are “praying”it to be true? Because Lord knows I have stripped the gears of my life plenty of times by crazily and disobediently slamming my life from drive to reverse.

But Barbara is right.

In fact there is a great saying in recovery that “a setback is a setup for a comeback”.

Truth is we all we have setbacks in life to be frank they are inevitable, we have talked about that several times. However it is our response to the setbacks that “set us” apart.

Proverbs 24:16

For a righteous man (woman) may fall seven times and rise again.

How do you respond when your choices have “set you back” or reversed your momentum in your walk with Christ? How do you respond when life "shifts" unexpectedly? Stay in reverse? Keep tracking backward?

If so, then hit the brakes!

Let’s clear the console and get this day moving in the right direction!

1 John 1:9

...if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins, because we can trust God to do what is right. He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done.

So that is what I am doing today. Confessing a day’s worth of nonsensical sin and gear grinding and stepping into today assured and reassured that the road ahead is the road to be taken!

Too many times we STAY in reverse; we don’t shift out of it, we stop progressing forward. But the author of Hebrews confirms the need to keep the shifter in drive!

Hebrews 10:36

…nothing (can) set you back. So don’t throw it all away now…you need to stick it out, staying with God’s plan…

Progress NOT perfection is the key!

To paraphrase our old friend Joyce Meyer: “GOD doesn’t expect perfection, He expects us to continue to grow and change each day”.

In other words “move forward”, stay in drive and spend as little time in reverse as possible!

So you spent yesterday grinding away in reverse, hit the brake, confess it.

Now grab the gear shift push it into drive and let’s get moving ahead!

I love you all!

Freedom Church

Pastor GDelaney