No one in this life is exempt from problems. A problem is a problem is a problem.  We shouldn’t look at other people’s struggles and consider them “less” than our own. 

If there is one thing that can keep us from walking in the anointing God has on us, it is our past.  What you have gone through should never stop you.  Your problem may be a purpose sent by God.  You may be going through things right now that will get you to the point that He can use you.

Sometimes we go through the motions with our prayers.  We’re just uttering words, but we don’t see the power God can exert through prayer.

Exodus 10:7 Pharaoh’s officials said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the Lord their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?” In other words, don’t hang onto these people.  Let them GO.

The things we hold onto can destroy us.  We can’t hang onto “If I’s. . .” Stop holding onto the past.  Let it go.  If you’re in a relationship, you can’t hang onto a previous one or hold the present person accountable for what an earlier one did.

Shalom means peace, but the Hebrew language uses pictographs to represent words.  The pictograph for Shalom looks like a door.

Anarchy, fear, chaos, confusion exist in our world today.  There’s no peace.  Jesus says, “MY peace I give to you.”  That’s a beautiful place to be - - in the peace of God.  Nothing can bother us when we’re in God’s place of peace. 

The enemy sows seeds of confusion.  So many people think they can’t be used of God because of what they went through in their pasts.  What you’ve gone through is a tool God will use to make your even more anointed.

Isaiah 43:18,19  “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.

The enemy attacks you in your will and your emotions.  God SAVES your will and emotions and mind - - not your physical body.  The enemy knows that if he can get you to think a specific way he’s got you.

Hebrew 4:12 – For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Some of us are premeditating sinners.  Knew what, when, where, how, and why we were going to do something, but we say, “I prayed about it” and do the wrong thing anyway.

When I was young, I thought there was an angel on one shoulder and a demon on the other . . . Neither were what I thought they were.

God’s mercy and grace are covering all of us.  He doesn’t “take back” things with which He has blessed us.

When man stops us, God promotes us. Nothing is impossible with God.  Stop talking to your sister and talk to Jesus.  Man has nothing to do with God’s promises. 

We treat things differently when we have to earn them versus when they’re given to us.

Philippians 3:13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

If you can’t be a good servant or a good follower, you’ll never be a good leader.

Forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting. It doesn’t mean trusting again, but forgiveness takes the pain out of what happened..

Must learn to forgive.  “He that setteth his hand to the plow and looks back is not fit for the kingdom of heaven.”  Luke 9:62

When you look back, it’s an indication that you’ve quit.  Let Got have everything.  You want to be able to move forward.