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Elaine Tavolacci
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Man In The Rear View Mirror
The Lord says that there are many of you that need to upgrade your self-image. Don't look at yourself the way that you were in the past. You are no longer the man or woman that you once were. Re construct your way of thinking into the image of how I see you says the Lord. I am bringing forth a new wineskin. You must protect and nurture this new wineskin to be able to hold the new wine that I am bringing. Don't look in the rearview mirror of your past any longer. When you look in the mirror open your eyes to see yourself the way that I see you. Don't be afraid of change but move forward into the victory that I have for you. Some of you are depriving yourselves from entering into the blessings that I have for you by looking back at the person that you once were. Remember where I have brought you from but walk in the newness that I am bringing you in to. Don't look back at the person that you once were but look unto the promises and the provisions that I have for you says the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5: 17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;
old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
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Forgetting The Past
(Word In Season)
We are living in an exciting time in history when the heavens are open for us to receive all that the Holy Spirit is pouring out. As we are advancing into a new era it is imperative that you forget your past and not go back to the things that you have been delivered from. Christians are always talking about going to the next level (spiritually) but you can not go to another level if you are continually living in the past. By doing this you are delaying the process. You may have been delivered from alcohol, drugs, pornography, bipolar or what ever it was once you have been set free don’t go back. You can not keep repeating the same behavior and expect a different outcome. The bible says that when you go back it is like a dog returning to its vomit or a cleansed pig returning to the mud.
2 Peter 2:22
But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to his own vomit, and, a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.
Take this lesson from the cat. After a cat does its duty it kicks the dirt over it to bury it and walks away. The cat will never look back or return to it. The reason why cats bury their waste is because they want to hide their scent from predators and by doing so their enemies will not be able to track them down.
In the same way when you are delivered from the dung of the world you have to bury it and not return.
Isaiah 43: 18 - 19
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.
Someone once said that a stronghold is a mindset resistant to change.
Some of you are hanging on to old mindsets and ways of thinking. The Lord is trying to advance but you are still waddling in old memories. You must change the patterns of your thought life or if you want to progress in your spiritual growth and development.
Philippians 3: 13 - 14
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, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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Elaine Tavolacci
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