Bye Felicia, My Past Does Not Determine My Future!

As believers in the Body of Christ, we spend an inordinate (too much) time nursing and rehearsing the past.

With all of its twists, turns, failures and hurts–thinking on these things will keep us stuck in the past… Weighed down by coulda, woulda, shoulda. Aint nothing we can do about how we messed up yesterday and especially as it relates to sin.

You need only repent (turn all the way from sin), ask Jesus for forgiveness and the stamina to not yield to that temptation again. It should be our aim to not look back so that we don’t go back.

And please know that the failures of the past can be great lesson plans to not repeat those same mistakes again.

Poor decision-making regarding relationship choices, business opportunities, money matters, parenting, career choices, morals of everyday life, should become RED FLAGS; but at the same time, it can be a stimulus for wisdom and discernment as you seek to go forward in the things of Christ.

The Bible reminds us that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord. In other words, the bad that you did was not good, but if you let Him, Christ Jesus can turn the bad around for your good. If nothing else, your testimony can keep somebody else from repeating the same mistakes. Tell them….If you wanna know what a survivor feels like, shake my hand.

And if anybody should try to remind you of your past, simply say to them, Bye, Felicia, my past does not determine my future.

Bye, Felicia is a popular term which originated from the movie Friday in which a girl name Felicia (Angela Means) was about to ask Craig Jones (Ice Cube), in his opinion, a stupid question, but Ice Cube dismisses her with no regard by saying “Bye Felicia.

So, when Felicia (your haters) so-to-speak, attempt to throw shade at you, you need simply wave them off, and say to them, bye Felicia, you might try to block me, but you can’t stop me because I’m washed in blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

And when Felicia, the enemy of your own soul, attempts to remind you of what you did in the past– rebuke that devil and say, Bye, Felicia, I aint trying to nurse or rehearse past hurts, drama, that old sinful lifestyle, poor decision-making, ungodly relationships, failed marriages, home foreclosures, job losses, car repossession, business failings, etc., etc.

I’m forgetting those things which are behind to press forward to the high prize in Christ Jesus.

Because the truth is, as new creatures in Christ Jesus, we’ve come a long way from where we started from. And guess what: “the best is yet to come.”

What are you believing God for as you seek to press forward in His name?

Find the promise regarding your situation and decree and declare it over your life? If you wanna nurse and rehease anything; nurse and rehearse God’s promises over your life.

Because surely, the Word is true when it says… God knows the plans that He thinks towards you. You simply need to believe it, receive it and activate His promises as they relate to the God ordained destiny and purpose for your life.

Bye, Felicia, Hello, Jesus!

PRAYER!

Father God, in heaven, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we thank You for Your darling Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Who died on the Cross for our sins. Yahweh God, we thank You that the promises in Your Word are yes and amen.

Lord, we thank You for giving us a second, third, and fourth chance, when we mess up. We thank You for grace and mercy over our lives and that you wish that we may come to repentance to live out the blessed life in You in Jesus name we pray, Amen!

If you do not know Jesus as your Savior, and you want to accept Him now, you can click on the Menu button under PRAYER, and pray the prayer of Salvation.

¹² Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. ¹³ Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, ¹⁴ I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philipians 3:12-14

¹¹ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11

28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8 

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5