Quote from Forum Archives on September 22, 2003, 8:01 am

Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>

Dear friends,

This week, I pray that the Lord will direct our lives and our
hearts as we earnestly seek Him in all things. Please pray
for me, too. I just started a job in the electronics
department at my local Sears retail store. I need wisdom and
a great attitude to share in the workplace with everyone that
I meet.

As we begin this week, Let's maintain a heart of worship, and
examine the peace of God.

Have a great week!

Yours in Christ,
Brian

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NEIL ANDERSON'S DAILY IN CHRIST
from Freedom in Christ Ministries

September 22

EVALUATING YOUR PAST

It was for freedom that Christ set us free (Galatians 5:1).

How does God intend for you to resolve hurtful, controlling past
experiences? In two ways which we shall consider today and
tomorrow.

First, you have the privilege of evaluating your past experience
in the light of who you are now, as opposed to who you were
then. The intensity of the primary emotion was established by
how you perceived the event at the time it happened. Remember:
Your emotions are a product of how you perceived the event, not
the event itself. As a Christian, you are not primarily a
product of your past; you are primarily the product of the work
of Christ on the cross. The flesh, which represents how you
processed those events according to the world and without
Christ, remains. But you are able to render it inoperative.

When a present event activates that primary emotion, many people
believe what they feel instead of believing what is true. For
example, people who have been verbally abused by their parents
have a hard time believing they are unconditionally loved by
Father God. Their primary emotions argue that they are unlovable
to a parent figure. They believe what they feel and their walk
is off course. Believing the truth and walking by faith is what
sets us free.

Now that you are in Christ, you can look at those events from
the perspective of who you are today. Christ is in your life
right now desiring to set you free from your past. That is the
gospel, the good news that Christ has come to set the captives
free. Perceiving those events from the perspective of your new
identity in Christ is what starts the process of healing those
damaged emotions.

God's good news about our identity is revealed in 2 Corinthians
5:17: "Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature;
the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." This
is what you must believe first in order to be set free from your
past.

Loving Lord, thank You for making me a new creation in Christ.
Help me walk away from anything in my past that is restricting
my freedom.

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