How To Fall Forward
From time to time our foolish choices or the unconscionable thing/s we once did in our past, rises up to remind and torment us. Don’t stay there too long, the enemy of our souls would love to see us cast down and disquieted. So this week our scripture and the Devotional Team will bring encouragement from the topic, “Freedom from Past Failures and Offenses.”
SCRIPTURE: "Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it on my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind, and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13,14
The fullest freedom addresses the past failures and prior offenses of our own doing, by choice or by circumstance, as well as the legacy of past failures and prior offenses inherited, even as far back as Adam. God Himself makes a way, to set us free, indeed... free even from the past failures and prior offenses yet to happen...blameless through the cross, meeting our reality at the intersection of then, now, and soon enough. "To the saints...faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved." Ephesians 1:1-6 [ESV]
This, we, or any other, cannot do on our own. Not even with a millennium to figure it out can we do 'this' on our own. It took the cross! Bless Jesus! Thank You, Lord! "In Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of His glory." Ephesians 1:11-14
So fall forward upon the believing which saves, the believing which 'trusts and obeys', stable and steadfast. Prevail upon no other, for none other pierces the darkness, makes found the lost, and raises the dead. Tis God. For the one step to freedom, remember Jesus, with all that you are. Remember unto life, and step forward toward the prize. If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved...Justified. Sanctified. Glorified. Amen.
Shackles shattered from the past. Free at last. Yea, free at last.
My shame undone beyond the asking. Free at last. Free at last.
His giving is the highest gift. Free at last. Yea, free at last.
Sweet home awaits that gracious lift. Free at last. Yea. Free at last!
Prayer: Lord-God, find my waiting patient and certain upon hope, sufficiently ardent of faith, prevailing in prayer, and greatly grateful for every hour of grace, and every moment mercy affords me. Find my certainty brave enough for the opportunities that You give upon every promise, and every blessing, that I bless You. Amen.
By Bro. McNeal Brockington
This, we, or any other, cannot do on our own. Not even with a millennium to figure it out can we do 'this' on our own. It took the cross! Bless Jesus! Thank You, Lord! "In Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of His glory." Ephesians 1:11-14
So fall forward upon the believing which saves, the believing which 'trusts and obeys', stable and steadfast. Prevail upon no other, for none other pierces the darkness, makes found the lost, and raises the dead. Tis God. For the one step to freedom, remember Jesus, with all that you are. Remember unto life, and step forward toward the prize. If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved...Justified. Sanctified. Glorified. Amen.
Shackles shattered from the past. Free at last. Yea, free at last.
My shame undone beyond the asking. Free at last. Free at last.
His giving is the highest gift. Free at last. Yea, free at last.
Sweet home awaits that gracious lift. Free at last. Yea. Free at last!
Prayer: Lord-God, find my waiting patient and certain upon hope, sufficiently ardent of faith, prevailing in prayer, and greatly grateful for every hour of grace, and every moment mercy affords me. Find my certainty brave enough for the opportunities that You give upon every promise, and every blessing, that I bless You. Amen.
By Bro. McNeal Brockington
Archive
2024
January
Gratitude Mixed with Faith Should Equal ObedienceGrace Comes In God’s TimingGOD USES WHOM HE CHOOSESSeeing What God Sees to Get What God HasA Life Verse That Is Good for Every YearSeeing Things as God Sees ThemThree QuestionsDon’t Worry About the FutureForgiveness Is Our Daily CelebrationPeace When We Do RightGod’s True Children Certainly Should KnowRegret In Missed OpportunitiesThe Attitude of Delight Is RightMeditation Deprivation Is EvidentARE YOU A DISCIPLE OR JUST A CONVERT?An Anchored Soul Won’t QuitGod Wants to Be BelievedFinding God in Our PainI Must Be About God’s WordWhat the Wondrous Word of God Can Do in a Willing ServantSeeing Things God’s WayGetting Along for Jesus SakeMeditating Brings Us Success In The Christian LifeThe State of Mind That Pleases GodPraised By the RaisedHaving the Right Knowledge for Real FaithWhose Mind Do You Think With?All My Heart & All My WaysWise with the Lord’s TimeNo Shame About What God Has SaidPrayer Is A Conversation
February
DEEP ARMOR FOR THE STEEP CLIMBDressed in the Whole Armor of God for Spiritual WarfareGRAB THAT ARMORSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER WITH PASTOR WAYNE COCKRELLIn My Dressing Room (Putting on the Armor of God)Armored for Any WeatherTruth is Foundation for Our FaithA Work in Progress and A Mouth in TrainingREJECTION OF GOSSIP, SLANDER, LIES, AND DISCORD: THE PERFECTING OF 'FEBRUARY'THE DETESTABLESSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER WITH PASTOR WAYNE COCKRELLIf the Lord Hates It, We Should TooThe Offense Ward of the Sin HospitalSpilling the TeaWe are in ChristLet us Do BetterSpread Love, Not GossipSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER WITH PASTOR WAYNE COCKRELLThe GREATEST THRILL: Being SPIRIT - FilledTHE HOLY SPIRIT'S CONTROLA Drunken SpiritLookin’ Like Our DaddyFermented or Fresh; How is Your Fruit?We Have it AllSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER WITH PASTOR WAYNE COCKRELLJESUS’ LOVE MANDATEHIS Walk, Our Hopethe greatest gift of allTo Love Like Christ
March
LOVE x LOVELove is CommitmentSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER with Pastor CockrellTHE HIGHEST DEBT OF LOVEPREVAILING IN LOVE, AND IN THE LIGHT OF THE PROMISEReturn Your Love to METhe Loveless ChurchWhat Do You Want First: the Good News or the Bad News?POSITIVE FRICTION THAT MAKES US BETTERSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER with Pastor Wayne CockrellHis Love Versus My FearsJESUS LOVES YOUBe Surrendered to 'Love'Victory Over Fear: Life’s Small LessonsJesus, Our VictoryTRUST CHRIST, BANISH FEARSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER with Pastor Wayne CockrellHarmony and Discord Aren’t FriendsHOLY PARAMETERSBlinded by HateACT or REACTRESISTING ANGER AND HATE IN CONFLICTPeculiar PeopleSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER with Pastor Wayne CockrellONWARD & UPWARDHow To Fall ForwardThe Front Windshield is Much Bigger than the Rearview MirrorONE THING TO DOLooking Back Will Have You SaltyGreat Cloud of WitnessesSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER with Pastor Wayne Cockrell
2 Comments
Amen, 🙏🏾
Oh YEAH free at last yes sir