There are times in life where it seems as though you have reached the end of the road – Just like Israel after leaving Egypt… the sea in front of them and a huge army behind them. Maybe your sea is a roadblock where you have run out of options to overcome your current circumstances, maybe the army seeking to destroy you is a mountain of debt… whatever has caused, what seems like a ‘dead end’ in your road, Jesus is willing and able to make a way where there is no other way!
As the prophet Isaiah says, “Stop dwelling on the past. Don’t even remember these former things. I am doing something brand new, something unheard of. Even now it sprouts and grows and matures. Don’t you perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and open up flowing streams in the desert.”
Paul says, ”Forgetting those things which are behind, I press on toward the high calling of God in Christ”. In order to move forward as the Lord makes a way, where there is no way, a person has to stop dwelling on the past – dwelling on the past only reinforces our inabilities of the past. When (by grace through faith) we stop thinking about the past, we can redirect our thoughts onto what the Lord is doing in the now. Instead of being focused on our past inabilities, we focus on His ‘present’ supernatural ability!
Forgetting simply means to stop dwelling on something – taking toxic thoughts of past failures captive, in Jesus Name and then casting them over to the Lord by grace through faith.
When Elisha told Naaman to dip himself in the Jordan River seven times… when did Naaman get healed… after one dip… after six dips, or after seven dips? He got healed after seven dips – I am sure that he looked at his skin after every dip, hoping to see some sign of healing… I am sure that he was very tempted to give up after two, or three dips in that dirty, stinky water. Each time, he had to forget about the last dip, and focus on the dip at hand. The seventh dip was exactly the same as the first six dips… only this time, when he came out, his skin became as healthy as the skin of a young child, and he was healed!
The Lord may have you do something very similar to what you did before, it may seem as thou you are quoting the same scriptures, declaring the same words and using your faith in the same way… the thought may come, “it is a form of insanity to do the same thing over and over and to expect a different result” – do not let those toxic thoughts sway you… do not dwell on the past, focus on your ‘now word’ – even though you may have been down this road before, get yourself full of faith and do what the Lord has said! Like Naaman, the day will come when the same step of faith gets a totally different outcome.
Jesus makes a way where there is no way! Do not give up, keep stepping out on His Word… your miracle is in the making!
Blessings on you, Nick
