Don’t Look Back!

Do you feel you’ve missed God and missed any possibility of the abundant life? In spite
of your failures, God has a purpose for your life. We may all lose time for one reason or
another, but we never lose our God given purpose.

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. (Romans 11:29)

God’s call upon your life remains unchanging. He is always ready to continue on with
you when you choose to walk with Him. God's purpose for our lives is to bless us and
have us bless others. That grace is available to you right now, regardless of the past.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace, and
not of evil, to give you an expected end. (Jeremiah 29:11)

You are unique and special in the Kingdom of God. You are a valuable member of the
Body of Christ. There are giftings in you that are needed by others. God’s heart is to
give you an expected end. In other words, God already sees your course as completed,
in spite of your mistakes or failures along the way. He isn’t looking at the times you may
have failed. He is seeing the end from the beginning. You need to see beyond the past
as well if you are going to enjoy God’s purpose for your life.

….but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth
unto those things which are before, (Philippians 3:13)

In spite of Paul’s past of spreading terror against Christians, he chose to forget the past
and see God’s future for his life. You cannot live in the past and touch the future!
God’s purpose for you hasn’t changed. The grace of God draws you to receive His love
and walk in His purpose.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who
are the called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28)

His purpose is that you fellowship with Him. He is the vine and you are a branch than
needs the continual life from the vine. In that fellowship, your life will be blessed and
your gifts discovered.

Walking in your purpose guarantees that God will cause the circumstances of your life
to align for your good, not your destruction. Don’t look back. Look to God’s grace for
your future.

Barry Bennett’s teachings from FB June 24 2023