Share from FB post 4/7/16

I Pam lied! I stole! I betrayed! I even killed! I was a speed addict! I was bullied in high school with my life being threatened for over a year! I was a runaway! I was raped! I was a pot head and dealer! I was physically and emotionally abused by my father! I've been divorced twice. I was diagnosed Manic Depressive. I even tried to take my life. I had a brain hemorrhage that left me with brain damage along with MS and Fibromyalgia. I was bedridden and was unable to track thoughts by others or formulate sentences for several years!

So how can I live now with hope, joy and peace and a future?? Because I am not defined by my past!!

By God's amazing grace and mercy I have been shown how to live victoriously. Do thoughts of my past haunt me? Not as much as they used to. Of course there is regret over my horrible choices but my life did not stop there.

Sad to say many people remain back in their abuse or back in their bad choices. To walk a full and vibrant life we must learn to leave the past behind us and continue moving forward one step at a time.

If we truly believe that Jesus died for our sins and we are washed clean by the blood of the lamb we must receive the cleansing, rebuke the accuser and move forward in God's love.

Why do you think the enemy wants us to wallow in our mistakes and past? Because when we grab a hold of the truth that sets us free, from the chains that have held us down and begin to walk in our freedom others see what we have and want it too!

If I, the worst of the worst, can have a life and have it to the fullest so can you! Is everything perfect now? Of course not. Several of the things I listed happened after I became a follower of Christ! I choose daily to walk in forgiveness moving forward through the power of the Holy Spirit in His Love!

It's time to stop being defined by who you were or what was done to you and lay hold of who you are now- Saved, Redeemed- a child of the Most High God, The Kings kid!!

Dear Lord- I again humbly come before Your throne and bow down with a heart of overflowing thanksgiving for all You have done for me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see. It is only by Your amazing grace that I am saved and have been born again into a new life, a life worth living! Please show Your people the same love and forgiveness You have shown me. Bring them up out of the muck and the mire into Your marvelous Light! I pray these things in Jesus Name!

“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, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 3:13-14 NIV

“Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. ”” John 3:3 NIV

“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.”
1 Peter 5:8-11 NIV

                        

A woman tormented with her past!   

Now set free with a new life!!