Understanding the problem from God's point of view:
Eze. 18:20
; 2 Cor. 5:17
-Each of us is accountable for our
own sins. We are freed from what others have done to us by realizing
I am accountable for my own actions, by forgiving others then
to begin a restoration process in my own life. No longer react
to the past but respond in the present to the Presence of a new
life in Christ Jesus, Who from now on will guide and lead and
develop me into what He had planned for me before the foundation
of the world.
Hope:
Gal. 3:13-14
-Knowing Jesus as Lord and Saviour, He becomes
my source of life from now on because His blood freed me and cleansed
and washed me from generation curses. By faith, by believing
God's word as herein stated, the past is paid for, no punishment
due because Jesus paid the full price. Now we are free to honor
and worship God for providing a new way of life for me which includes
blessings, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Gal. 3:11 -A person is not justified by doing the best he can, he is justified by faith, by trusting God to forgive sin, and this He has done by the sacrifice of His Son. We are not to dwell on the past, but to honor and dwell on Jesus and what He has done, not on what the devil has done. By the principle of faith, the believer is saved by faith and lives by faith. Jesus Christ took our condemnation, doom, death, and punishment upon Himself so that we could be free now to honor what He has done. To dwell on the past is to dwell on death.
2 Cor. 5:17 ; jn. 3:3-6 ; 2 Pet. 1:1-4 -Jesus opened the door of blessing to all men by bearing the curse for us so that the Holy Spirit can now indwell us and to empower us henceforth to live a new life as a new creature, and begin to live a life that is pleasing to God and the result is peace and joy in lieu of gloom and doom.
Change:
2 Cor. 5:17-21
; Col. 3:9-10
-Your source of being is Christ
Himself. You are to live for Him henceforth which means you are
to have fellowship and commune with God at all times. It is being
'in Christ' that makes a person a new creature. He is all that
Christ is. We are no longer in death, the past, but in life in
the present. Thus, our thoughts, motives, actions are to be
consistent with the new life within.
Eph. 4:22-24 ; l Pet. 4:3 -The process of change begins in our minds and thoughts, and our minds to be renewed by God's words. To think on the past is to think on death and corruption. the mind is to be renewed which means to be made new, readjusted, changed, turned around and regenerated.
l Jn. 3:19-24
; Jn. 5:24
; Rom. 8:1
; lJn. 1:9
-Everyone's heart condemns
him sometime. God has made our hearts sensitive so that we will
correct our behaviour and not destroy ourselves. God knows all
our secrets, nothing is unknown to Him, but God has removed all
the guilt and condemnation that weighs upon our hearts by loving
us and this love was shown when He sent His own Son to die for
us and by his death removed all guilt and condemnation. Knowing
all things are well with God, our hearts will flow in full assurance
and confidence. Now we are free to love God and others, and as
we do , our confidence will increase.