You must not Bring up the Past when you Make your Decrees
God commands us not to bring up the past, except to declare His miracles to others.
Bringing up the past is a sin against God's commands.
It is a useless thing for you to do it because you cannot change your past.
You will sin also when you tell half-truths and lies about your past.
Instead, forgive those who have hurt you and forget their sins and God will heal your past.
Instead, decree the miracles you need today in every area of your life and God will do it.
1. Bringing up the past is a sin against God's commands, except when we declare His miracles to others
ISAIAH 43:18-19
18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland."
PSALM 78:4
4 We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Yehovah, His power, and the wonders He has done.
2. We cannot change the past, so do not waste time over it
It is a useless thing to bring up the past.
You cannot change the past.
In the New Heaven and New Earth that we are living in today, God does not want us to remember the past.
ISAIAH 65:17
17 "See, I will create New Heavens and a New Earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
3. When you bring up the past, you will always tell half-truths and lies and slander others and curse others
LUKE 6:37
37 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
When we bring up the past, we will not remember the details of the past.
We will speak half-truths and lies.
We will try to justify ourselves and put others down.
We will put ourselves as the victim and only point out the sins of others.
We will judge and condemn others.
In this way, we sin by lying and slandering others, who may be dead or alive.
All the slander and lies we speak become curses, and we cannot change the difficult circumstances we face today, but make them worse.
So do not do it.
Do not bring up the past.
You add sin to sin.
LUKE 6:37
37 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
4. Instead, forgive those who have hurt you, forget their sins, and God will heal the pains from your past
Bringing up the past will bind you to the pain of the past and stop you from receiving the blessings of God for today.
Instead, God wants us to forgive others who have hurt us, and forget their sins, as God has done the same to us.
HEBREWS 8:12
12 "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."
As we do that, God will heal us of our pain from the past and present hurts that we have suffered in our lives.
5. Instead, decree the miracles you need today in every area of your life and God will do it.
God wants to do a new thing in your life today.
He wants to release all His blessings into your life today.
These blessings will reverse every curse you have experienced in your life in the past or the present.
ISAIAH 43:18-19
18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing A NEW THING! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland."
Just decree and declare the miracles you need today, and God will do it.
He will do it today, the very moment you command your miracles.
MARK 11:23 ESV
23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that WHAT HE SAYS will come to pass, it WILL BE DONE for him.
So never waste your time today by talking about the past.
Instead, declare and decree God's blessings, and God will do it for you, for your family, your workplace, your nation---today.
It will spring up now, God says.
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A TESTIMONY
"My miracles manifested after I obeyed the Holy Spirit and sang praises to the Lord"
Sister NL:
MIRACLE 1: "One evening as I returned to my house with my daughter and her mother-in-law, we could not open the autogate with the remote control.
"My daughter was desperate and called her father, who promised to come from another place, but he eventually never turned up.
"Meanwhile, I told my daughter that we will pray and God will answer, as He always does.
So I prayed and I commanded the autogate, 'Autogate, I command you to open in Jesus' name.'
Nothing happened.
"I was led by the Holy Spirit to sing a song of praise.
So I sang, 'Isn't He wonderful! Isn't He wonderful!'
Nothing happened.
"Once again, I commanded the autogate to open, and sang the same song again.
This time, as I was singing the song, the autogate opened by itself.
"To God be the glory! Great things he has done!"
MIRACLE 2: "Recently, when I tried to charge my ipad, it would not charge.
It was an old ipad, about 10 years old already.
I commanded it to charge.
Nothing happened.
I then sang the song, "Isn't he wonderful!"
The ipad began to charge.
After the ipad was fully charged, when I tried to boot it, it would not boot.
I commanded it to boot, but nothing happened.
Once again, as I sang the wong, "Isn't He wonderful," the ipad booted.
"To God be all the glory!!!"
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COMMENTS (BROTHER ANDREW)
1. As we learn to command and declare and decree our miracles, God also wants to train us to grow in holiness.
2. He wants us to listen to the Holy Spirit and obey His leading.
The Holy Spirit may want us to sing a song of praise, or dance before the Lord, or go to another brother or sister and say sorry for a sin we have committed against them, etc.
3. When Sister NL obeyed the Holy Spirit and sang a song of praise to the Lord, her miracles manifested.
4. Our church has also begun to sing this song, "Isn't He wonderful" during our testimony time at Sunday Service.
5. Be led by the Holy Spirit to sing any song He has put in your heart, and you will see the miracle manifest.
ROMANS 8:14
14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
6. The release of the miracles above fulfills God's promise in Psalm 37:4.
PSALM 37:4 ESV
4 Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
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Shalom