I CAN STILL BRING YOU OUT!
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Many times in life we struggle with our past and fail to walk in our potential future. Let me make a profound statement...Your past has nothing to do with what God can do for your future! God says "In spite of what you used to be, I can still bring you out!

I know that you used to be a womanizer, but I can still bring you out! I know you slept with half the football team, but I can still bring you out! I know that you have bad credit and now you want a house, but I can still bring you out! I know that they call you by your problem and not your name --- I can still bring you out!"

There is no past too troubled and no person that God can't redeem. He took a murderer name Moses and made him a prophet. He took a pimp named Abram (if you wonder why I called him that, go back to Genesis and see how many times he sold his wife off for possession because he was afraid of being killed) and made him the father of many nations. He took a liar and cheat named Jacob and made him a prince named Israel and blessed his seed. He took a prostitute named Rahab, called her blessed and changed her profession! He took a Christian hater name Saul and made him a great apostle Paul. I could go on and on.

If God used those people, he can use you.

So what, you've had a bad past? That is the problem --- you keep living in the past. God wants to bring you into the present and develop you a great future!

He says it best in 2Cor.5:17 - "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come!"

Hold on my brothers and sisters, your change is coming. No more low self esteem! No more worries about your credit history! No more worries about whether he is going to pay child support or not! If you fix your mind on Jesus, He'll take care of you.

Do you realize that many people have lost their minds over what you survived? You made it through!

Sometimes we need to just thank God for survival.

Oh, you don't hear me! We are looking for the big testimony, but the true testimony is my spouse cheated on and left me but I survived it. You thought you would be on Prozac the rest of your life but God healed your wounds. You are a survivor.

Stop right where you are, stand up and give yourself a high five because you made it. Now look at your co-worker and say "I made it!" They may not understand but you know what time it is! Stop trying to make people understand you and praise God anyhow!

After all you went through and you're still serving the Lord. You are a survivor. I thank God for being a survivor.

God brought you out. The truth be told you had suicidal thoughts about the problem but God brought you out. I believe I got a few witnesses. Most people could not go through what you have been through and make it. Others have given up on life and are homeless but God brought you out so that he can bring you into the joy of life!

Oh I feel like preaching but I better not. Oh forget the devil, I am going to preach it. Repeat after me...

"GOD HAS BROUGHT ME OUT FOR A REASON. I SURVIVED BECAUSE HE HAS A PLAN FOR ME. ALL THE BAD RELATIONSHIPS, ALL THE SUICIDAL THOUGHTS, THE BAD CREDIT, THE REPOSSESSIONS, THE DEATH OF MY LOVED ONES, THE BACK STABBINGS, FROM MY FRIENDS, THE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS, THE LACK OF SUPPORT......... I MADE IT! I MADE IT BECAUSE I AM BLESSED IN THE CITY, BLESSED IN THE FIELDS, BLESSED WHEN I COME AND WHEN I GO. THE DEVIL IS DEFEATED, BECAUSE HE LIVES!" NOW GIVE YOURSELF A HUG, WIPE YOUR TEARS AND WALK IN THE VICTORY!!!!!!!!!! JESUS LOVES YOU!

BE BLESSED AND KNOW THAT YOU ARE!