MOVE ON, this must be your attitude constantly, not caring about what is left behind, but caring about what you still have to achieve.
• Many have already won many goods and anointing from God.
• Many have already won many lives for Christ.
• Many have worked hard, sometimes for years, in the Lord's work.
• Many have already suffered from their struggles, inside and outside the church.
• Many are motivated by God and his work.
• Many are almost giving up on everything, because they can no longer bear their struggles or the struggles in God's work.
MOVE FORWARD, looking at what God offers you and what God wants, press on towards the goal, as the apostle Paul said of himself:
Philippians 3:
13 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,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
15 All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.
There is still a lot that God has to do in your life, and what you have already been through should serve as an experience and motivation for you to achieve much more from God, as the glory of the second house will always be greater than that of the first.
Haggai 2:9 The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house, says the Lord Almighty...
ADVANCE towards the goal, which is Jesus, and live his fullness in this world, so that you can reach, very soon, the great miracle of God, which is salvation.
And to achieve salvation, you need to be able to do so.
Pay attention, because Jesus declared: Luke 9:62 Jesus replied, No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.
LIVE GOD'S LIFE, regardless of your feelings, pains, anxieties, difficulties, struggles or joys, for this is God's will, as Habakkuk said:
Habakkuk 3:
17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
The Lord bless you and keep you.
Pastor Val Martins