New Beginnings Sermon Series - 1 - Forget the Former Things | John Giftah

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0:49 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:52 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift Up podcast, where I want

0:55 Speaker 2: to talk to you today from a passage I'm sure

0:58 Speaker 2: you may be very familiar with, but I just wanted

0:59 Speaker 2: to mind you as we step into twenty twenty five

1:02 Speaker 2: and you want to see God do the new things,

1:06 Speaker 2: the amazing things that God wants to do in a

1:08 Speaker 2: th real life. I want to start with Isaiah forty three,

1:13 Speaker 2: verse eighteen. You might be knowing this by heart, which

1:16 Speaker 2: says forget the former things, and I want to specifically

1:19 Speaker 2: remind you from the message version. And I'm going to

1:22 Speaker 2: talk about this for the next couple of days as well.

1:26 Speaker 2: So the first thing I want to talk about is

1:28 Speaker 2: the fact if you look at the message version, it says,

1:31 Speaker 2: forget about what's happened, don't keep going over old history.

1:37 Speaker 2: Forget about what's happened. Don't keep going over old history.

1:42 Speaker 2: Y'es the thing I want you to understand, right, like

1:45 Speaker 2: many times when we step into something new, maybe a

1:48 Speaker 2: new year, we still have a mindset of what happened

1:54 Speaker 2: in the past, or we still look at what happened

1:56 Speaker 2: in the past. We always have the past as our reference.

2:00 Speaker 2: This is what happened for me. I tried this, it

2:02 Speaker 2: didn't work out. I went here, but it was a

2:05 Speaker 2: bad experience for me. So so we tend to have

2:08 Speaker 2: the thing that happened in the past as our reference

2:11 Speaker 2: point as we step into a new year. For example,

2:16 Speaker 2: when we think about some when some when you tell

2:18 Speaker 2: somebody you know, oh, you're good in singing, why don't

2:20 Speaker 2: you try, and they immediately go back to something happened

2:22 Speaker 2: in the that happened in the past, where they tried

2:25 Speaker 2: singing and they didn't do a good job and they

2:28 Speaker 2: failed miserably. You know, you get what I'm saying, right, Like,

2:31 Speaker 2: they have something that happened in the past as a

2:33 Speaker 2: bad example, and they keep looking at that. And that's

2:36 Speaker 2: the why the Bible goes on to say, you know,

2:39 Speaker 2: forget the former things. Forget about what's happened, you know,

2:42 Speaker 2: whatever happened happened, you know, don't don't keep looking at

2:46 Speaker 2: that as your reference point. That should not be a

2:48 Speaker 2: reference point today. That's the challenge I want to tell you, you know,

2:52 Speaker 2: you know, like if you're saying, you know, John, you know,

2:54 Speaker 2: every time I get into relationship, things just go bad.

2:57 Speaker 2: You know, Yes, you may have bad experiences. Maybe you

3:01 Speaker 2: can learn from them that that's a different topic altogether

3:05 Speaker 2: to talk about. But you know, don't look at what

3:07 Speaker 2: happened in the past, the past failures, the past disappointments,

3:10 Speaker 2: the past hurts. Don't let that lead you to a

3:13 Speaker 2: point of you know, you know, like I don't want

3:16 Speaker 2: to expect anything new because I don't know, John, I've

3:20 Speaker 2: been disappointed enough. I don't have any more expectations now today,

3:24 Speaker 2: when you step into twenty twenty four, the first thing

3:26 Speaker 2: I want to tell you is, forget about what's happened. Yes,

3:29 Speaker 2: you failed multiple times, but it's okay. Forget about it,

3:33 Speaker 2: you know, don't keep that as your reference point. You know,

3:36 Speaker 2: this is a new day, This is a new year.

3:38 Speaker 2: God's mercies are new every morning. God's plans for your

3:41 Speaker 2: life is going to go from brighter to brighter. That's

3:44 Speaker 2: what the Bible says. The part of the right just

3:46 Speaker 2: gets brighter and brighter. So I want you to have

3:48 Speaker 2: that faith and assurance that you know what. God made

3:51 Speaker 2: no mistake in your life. God did not call you

3:53 Speaker 2: to be a failure. He has called you to fulfill

3:56 Speaker 2: a purpose which only you and only you can fulfill.

3:59 Speaker 2: So today I want you to have that perspective as

4:01 Speaker 2: you step into the new year, that you will forget

4:04 Speaker 2: the former things, forget whatever happened. You may be hurt,

4:10 Speaker 2: you may have bad baggages from the past. Those people

4:13 Speaker 2: walked out and it's unfair. I understand that, But don't

4:18 Speaker 2: let that dictate the rest of your life. Don't allow

4:22 Speaker 2: a season of disappointment to become a lifetime of regret

4:29 Speaker 2: where you're constantly sitting in that regret of oh my goodness,

4:35 Speaker 2: I wish this didn't happen. Oh I wish I had

4:37 Speaker 2: tried this or I should have. You know, whatever happened happened.

4:42 Speaker 2: Don't allow that season, the bitter season, to define the

4:48 Speaker 2: better part of your life. God has something bigger. God

4:53 Speaker 2: has something better. God has something that's going to exceed

4:56 Speaker 2: your expectations. So today, with that challenge, I want you

5:00 Speaker 2: to step into the new here where you don't allow

5:05 Speaker 2: the things in the past to define your actions for today.

5:09 Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about this a little bit more

5:11 Speaker 2: that days to come, and I will catch up with

5:13 Speaker 2: you in the next episode. God bless you.

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