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Moving Forward Part 3:
What’s Ahead And What’s Behind
Text: Philippians 3:13-16
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. All of us, then who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point, you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
Review: We are either moving forward, staying the same, or sliding back
#1: Remember Lot’s wife. Let go of the past.
#2 Remember the Man at The Pool. Get up and do something.
When you begin to move forward…you will hit a crisis of Fear vs. Faith.
FEAR: Trust what I see OVER what may actually be.
FAITH: Trust what I know OVER what I behold.
#3: Remember Gideon. Decide to choose Faith over Fear. Judges 6 & 7 tell Gideon’s story. God called him to deliver Israel from the Midianites. Gideon told God his clan was the weakest and he was the least in his family. Yet with only 300 men, God empowered Gideon to defeat the Midianites.
Pre-decide to choose faith:
Faith and Fear are both contagious.
Faith is like a muscle, the more you exercise, the stronger you get.
Faith is not the absence of Fear but pushing through the Fear.
Every day paint a backdrop of God’s grace and love. At the end of the day, wrap up in it!