Andrew F Carter Interview Clip Throwback | Dealing with GUILT and SHAME | John Giftah

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0:43 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. There's also this aspect of guilt and shame, like so many people feeling so ashamed of themselves because of their poor choices or because of their past and all these things. So what are some practical ways that you can share they can hold up those seasons of their life. Yeah, hold onto the scripture that we are a new creation in creditis right. You know, the past. You can't change yesterday. There's no redo. I can't go back in and change anything that happened yesterday, and tomorrow has its own set of worries.

1:26 You know, we call today the present moment, right it's a present it to get And so rather than focusing on yesterday's because it's every day, I fail. Every day. I make a mistake every day, you know, there's shortcomings, whether it's in my thought process, or whether it's in my actions or my behaviors or maybe the words that I speak. I'm not perfect, none of us are, and so we will slip up, We will make mistakes. Now it varies by degree. I'm not like slipping up and you know, running off and doing a drive by or selling drugs on accident, but you know, it might it might be, you know, something small.

2:01 But I don't bring that up, right because the price was paid once and for all by the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus Christ, and so um, I don't allow that. I don't allow that to dictate my actions today. So I wake up in this present moment, which is a gift, and I do my absolute best that I can do today. And when you take that focus and focus on, you know, living a life that brings glory and honor to God today, right then that was a pretty good day. So now tomorrow I don't have to worry about yesterday because I did my absolute best, So I'm going to focus on today.

2:38 A lot of people get wrapped up with, you know, their past actions there yesterdays, and unfortunately you can't change any of those, and people will bring up your past. People will will will bring up, you know, some of the mistakes or the failures that you did. But you don't live there anymore. In Christ, you are new. You've been born again, brand new every day. That's absolutely true. I was reminded of I think it's there in Joshua chapter two, uh. It talks verse fifteen. It talks about the Rehab right she was a prostitute.

3:12 When I was reading it, something that caught my attention that Rehab is a prostitute and she is the one who saves the spice where the children of Israel are about to enter the Promised Land. And because she saves the spice, she's she and her entire family is actually saved when the children of Israel enter the Promised Land. And what really caught my attention is about verse fifteen, which says she was able to save the spice because her house was adjacent to the city wall. So as I was praying and meditating and studying about this part, I was reminded of how, um, you know, a house in a city wall is like the city wall will be in the outskirts of the city, right, not in the center of the city.

3:57 So why was a house in the skirts of the city and not in the center of the city. It was because of a profession, because she was a prostitute, all the illegal and not so caotional kind of things. Only people keep in the outskirts of the city. They don't keep in the limelight of the city. So she made this choice to buy this house in the outskirts of the city, adjacent to the city wall, because of a sinful act of being a prostitute. But the very choice she made in sin when she committed to God and why attempted to do what was right.

4:36 God used that very choice to actually save her and an entire family if you think about it, because in a little sense, it looks like, you know, her house as adjacent to the city wall, but only because of that choice, she and an entire family were saved. So what I want to say is, I'm not giving you license to sin, because if you're listening, that's what I'm saying. But what I'm saying is even if you did make a choice in sin and you're wondering, Oh, my goodness, this is a choice I have to live with the rest of my life.

5:07 But when you give it to God, God can use that very choice for the extension of His kingdom, so they never ever sit in mediocrity or sit in defeat and self pity and guilt and shame. You'll give to God, he gives you a clean new slight for you to begin again.

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