Moving Forward Part 2 : What’s Ahead And What’s Behind
Philippians 3:13-15
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.

Review: Four things we see Paul do to keep moving forward:

#1: Remembers there’s a PLAN.  God has a plan for you. Do something that will impact someone.

#2: Let’s go of the PAST.  Remember Lot’s wife.  She looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.

#3: Take POWERFUL actions to move forward. John 5:1-8 tells the story of the invalid of 38 years laying at the Bethesda pool.  Jesus asked the man a strange question, “Do you want to get well?”  Three questions for us today:

Do you want to get well”
Are you ready to get and walk?
Will you keep on fighting?

Remember: It means nothing without action.  Life compares to a garden.  You have to work it, otherwise the weeds take over.

#4: Keep eyes on the PRIZE. Philippians 1:21-24 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.  If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me.  Yet what shall I choose? I do not know!  I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far: but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body

Your body is the temple of the Lord; take care of it!

What is your spiritual why for the things you do?

Where are you stuck?

Live every day like it is your last.