DEALING WITH YOUR YESTERDAY

DEALING WITH YOUR YESTERDAY


2 Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Galatians 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Song of Solomon 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

2 Timothy 2:21-22 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

The powers controlling many lives are their yesterdays, you must break the power of your yesterday, over your tomorrow. You have to make a clear cut between you and your sinful past, otherwise, it will backfire and work against you in a way you did not expect it.

When a polluted past is ignored, it becomes a dangerous future. When you refuse to tame your today, it will grow into a very wild destructive ‘tomorrow’.

God asked Saul to destroy the Amalekites, but he spared their king and the aft cattle. Haman, who almost destroy the children of Israel was a descendant of Agag. This shows that, the enemy that you spared yesterday, will not spare you today and is likely not to spare you tomorrow.

The story of a boy who went to play a far distance from the father’s house. He picked a ... cub of a lion for a small dog. He hid it from his parents, and continuously feed the cub as a puppy.

One day, he travelled and did not provide food to the cub; when he arrived home from his journey he went to inspect the ‘dog’. On seeing the boy, the cub jumped on him and ate him up.

Sin is like that; it will wait for you to nurture it, feed it, romance it, and then it will destroy you.

Victory at Jericho- but defeat at Ai. Why? A simple reason – sinful disobedience. When the sin is purged, then victory is given. Is there something in your heart that is holding up the victories you ought to be experiencing? Then root it out - today. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. Refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.