From the desk of Assistant Pastor Anthony Hurst

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ROMANS 12:1-2

One of the greatest challenges of our walk with God is to resist the temptation that allows what happened in the past determine who we are today. We each must begin to understand and declare “I am not what happened yesterday. I endured what happened. I survived what happened. I forgive what happened! But I am not what happened yesterday! I may have done what you said I did, but I am not who you say I am!”

We allow our minds to plague us with past hurts of failed marriages, broken promises, personal violations, and calamities that haunt our memories throughout our lives. It eats at us like cancer, trying to defy any medical technology and continuing to destroy it’s victims in areas the doctors can’t find. You know modern medicine can heal many afflictions of the body and can even treat the tumors that sometimes attach themselves to the brain….BUT ONLY GOD CAN HEAL THE MIND!!!

Where the mind goes the body will follow. You are not what you feel. You are what you believe. (Phil. 2:5-11) You’re going to have to think like God thinks and learn to say what God says in order for you to have what God desires and has predestined you to have.

Father God we pray that You teach us to forgive others as You have forgiven us. Help us to forgive and heal every hurt of our past and to begin to submit and stay obedient to Your will. Thank You for renewing my mind in Jesus mighty name. AMEN.