God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Our ability to experience emotion is a gift of
  God.

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Our ability to experience emotion is a gift of
  God.
• There is a proper time and place for the fully
  array of emotions we can experience. (Ecc
  34, 8)

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Ecclesiastes 34 (NKJV) - A time to weep, And a
  time to laugh A time to mourn, And a time to
  dance

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Ecclesiastes 38 (NKJV) - A time to love, And a
  time to hate A time of war, And a time of peace.

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• One has said that it is "our emotions that put us
  in motion.

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Emotions in their proper role are a blessing to
  our lives.

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Emotions in their proper role are a blessing to
  our lives.
• Emotion and reason often are in conflict.

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Emotions in their proper role are a blessing to
  our lives.
• Emotion and reason often are in conflict.
• Have you ever been frustrated as to why I feel
  this way?

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Emotions in their proper role are a blessing to
  our lives.
• Emotion and reason often are in conflict.
• Have you ever been frustrated as to why I feel
  this way?
• We are prone to have strong feelings apart from
  facts and reality. (Ex.)

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Our emotions may be triggered by faulty reason or
  manipulated evidence. (Gen
  3731-35)

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Genesis 3731-35 (NKJV) - So they took Josephs
  tunic, killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the
  tunic in the blood. 32 Then they sent the tunic
  of many colors, and they brought it to their
  father and said, We have found this. Do you know
  whether it is your sons tunic or not? 33And he
  recognized it and said, It is my sons tunic. A
  wild beast has devoured him. Without doubt Joseph
  is torn to pieces.

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• 34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth on
  his waist, and mourned for his son many days. 35
  And all his sons and all his daughters arose to
  comfort him but he refused to be comforted, and
  he said, For I shall go down into the grave to
  my son in mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• It is possible to by-pass reason and appeal
  directly to our emotional side!

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• It is possible to by-pass reason and appeal
  directly to our emotional side!
• Consider the actions in a pep-rally or in some
  Pentecostal churches.

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• It is possible to by-pass reason and appeal
  directly to our emotional side!
• Consider the actions in a pep-rally or in some
  Pentecostal churches.
• Some teachers appeal to others by their zeal.
  (Gal 31 417-20)

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Galatians 31 (NKJV) - O foolish Galatians! Who
  has bewitched you that you should not obey the
  truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly
  portrayed among you as crucified?

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Galatians 417-21 (NKJV) - They zealously court
  you, but for no good yes, they want to exclude
  you, that you may be zealous for them. 18 But it
  is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and
  not only when I am present with you. 19 My little
  children, for whom I labor in birth again until
  Christ is formed in you,

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• 20 I would like to be present with you now and to
  change my tone for I have doubts about you. 21
  Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do
  you not hear the law?

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Emotion and reason can often be in harmony. (Acts
  236-37)

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• Acts 236-37 (NKJV) - Therefore let all the
  house of Israel know assuredly that God has made
  this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and
  Christ. 37 Now when they heard this, they were
  cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest
  of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we
  do?

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• We must never be satisfied with the emotion
  without examining if it is true to a Biblical
  faith. (2 Cor 135)

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God Has Made Man in a Special Way.

• 2 Corinthians 135 (NKJV) - Examine yourselves
  as to whether you are in the faith. Test
  yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that
  Jesus Christ is in you?unless indeed you are
  disqualified.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• When we allow our emotions to dominate we become
  a rudderless ship.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• When we allow our emotions to dominate we become
  a rudderless ship.
• Consider an article by John Leo titled
  "Feelings, oh those feelings."

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• "This was the period .in which America was busy
  switching to a feelings-centered morality. Since
  the self was more important than society, values
  created by the self (feelings) took precedence
  over any social or traditional values, which are
  the encrusted remains of other people's feelings
  and biases . ....

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• If we are open to experience, wrote the famous
  therapist Carl Rogers, "doing what feels right
  proves to be a competent and trustworthy guide to
  behavior which is truly satisfying.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• If we are open to experience, wrote the famous
  therapist Carl Rogers, "doing what feels right
  proves to be a competent and trustworthy guide to
  behavior which is truly satisfying.
• We must choose faith. (Rom 85-6)

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Romans 85-6 (NKJV) - For those who live
  according to the flesh set their minds on the
  things of the flesh, but those who live according
  to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to
  be carnally minded is death, but to be
  spiritually minded is life and peace.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• This is not easy. Some because of their past are
  scarred emotionally.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• It is important to know our own weaknesses and to
  have proper associates.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• It is important to know our own weaknesses and to
  have proper associates.
• Some people do not need to be put in some
  situations. (Gal 61)

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Galatians 61 (NKJV) - Brethren, if a man is
  overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual
  restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness,
  considering yourself lest you also be tempted.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Some have chosen to be with others that
  strengthens their weaknesses rather than help
  them overcome them.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Some have chosen to be with others that
  strengthens their weaknesses rather than help
  them overcome them.
• Our faith will teach us how to think.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Some have chosen to be with others that
  strengthens their weaknesses rather than help
  them overcome them.
• Our faith will teach us how to think.
• How does a man of faith view suffering and
  disappointment? (Rom 835-39)

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Romans 835-39 (NKJV) - Who shall separate us
  from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or
  distress, or persecution, or famine, or
  nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is
  written For Your sake we are killed all day
  long We are accounted as sheep for the
  slaughter. 37 Yet in all these things we are
  more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor
  life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers,
  nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor
  height nor depth, nor any other created thing,
  shall be able to separate us from the love of God
  which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Many People are locked into a pattern of life
  that makes them miserable!

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Isolation from others.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Isolation from others.
• Major problems in friendships and marriage.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Isolation from others.
• Major problems in friendships and marriage.
• Regular depression.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Isolation from others.
• Major problems in friendships and marriage.
• Regular depression.
• Living in the past.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Isolation from others.
• Major problems in friendships and marriage.
• Regular depression.
• Living in the past.
• Fear of improvement.

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Isolation from others.
• Major problems in friendships and marriage.
• Regular depression.
• Living in the past.
• Fear of improvement.
• Most people keep doing the same things over and
  over again. (Ex. Windmill)

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• God wishes to teach us how to think. Close
  examination and repetition of scripture is a
  must. (Rom 121-2)

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We Must Fight to Walk by Faith

• Romans 121-2 (NKJV) - I beseech you therefore,
  brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present
  your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
  to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And
  do not be conformed to this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
  you may prove what is that good and acceptable
  and perfect will of God.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Faith in God teaches us that there are numerous
  things that are beyond our control and must be
  given to God!

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Faith in God teaches us that there are numerous
  things that are beyond our control and must be
  given to God!
• "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I
  cannot change, courage to change the things I
  can, and wisdom to know the difference.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Faith in God teaches us that there are numerous
  things that are beyond our control and must be
  given to God!
• "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I
  cannot change, courage to change the things I
  can, and wisdom to know the difference.
• Faith in God allows us to realistically look at
  our problems without self deception.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Many are very stubborn and spend energy on that
  which they can do nothing about!

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Many are very stubborn and spend energy on that
  which they can do nothing about!
• 95 of our worries are spent in these areas.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Many are very stubborn and spend energy on that
  which they can do nothing about!
• 95 of our worries are spent in these areas.
• What does faith in God teach us about these
  things? (1 Cor 35-7)

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• 1 Corinthians 35-7 (NKJV) - Who then is Paul,
  and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom
  you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? 6 I
  planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the
  increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is
  anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives
  the increase.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Rather than worry, the child of God can take the
  problems he cannot handle and give
  them to God. God is greater than our problems!
  (Mt 1128-30)

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Matthew 1128-30 (NKJV) - Come to Me, all you
  who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give
  you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from
  Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you
  will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is
  easy and My burden is light.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Consider some things we cannot change.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Consider some things we cannot change.
• The Weather.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• The Clock.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• The Clock.
• The Past.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• The Clock.
• The Past.
• Another person against their will.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• The Clock.
• The Past.
• Another person against their will.
• What is right.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• The Clock.
• The Past.
• Another person against their will.
• What is right.
• What is wrong.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• The Clock.
• The Past.
• Another person against their will.
• What is right.
• What is wrong.
• Death.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Consider the example of an older couple who
  learned some valuable lessons
  early in their lives.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Consider the wastefulness of worry. (Mt 625-27)

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Matthew 625-27 (NKJV) - Therefore I say to
  you, do not worry about your life, what you will
  eat or what you will drink nor about your body,
  what you will put on. Is not life more than food
  and the body more than clothing?

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither
  sow nor reap nor gather into barns yet your
  heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more
  value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can
  add one cubit to his stature?

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Consider what occurs when you directly connect
  the two poles of a car battery...heat, sparks and
  finally a dead battery. This is what worry can do.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Worry wastes energy, and both compounds and
  prolongs the hurt.

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Faith Teaches Us to Accept the Things We Cannot
Change

• Worry wastes energy, and both compounds and
  prolongs the hurt.
• When you understand these principles, the
  struggle stops.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• How should I view my hurts? (Phil 313-14)

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• Philippians 313-14 (NKJV) - 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.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• All things must be seen in the light of Gods
  promises.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• All things must be seen in the light of Gods
  promises.
• Paul learned what God wanted him to from his
  hurts. (2 Cor 1123-28 Rom 818)

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• 2 Corinthians 1123-28 (NKJV) - Are they
  ministers of Christ?I speak as a foolI am more
  in labors more abundant, in stripes above
  measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths
  often. 24 From the Jews five times I received
  forty stripes minus one.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• 25 Three times I was beaten with rods once I was
  stoned three times I was shipwrecked a night
  and a day I have been in the deep 26in journeys
  often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers,
  in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the
  Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the
  wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among
  false brethren

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• 27 in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often,
  in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold
  and nakedness28 besides the other things, what
  comes upon me daily my deep concern for all the
  churches.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• Romans 818 (NKJV) - For I consider that the
  sufferings of this present time are not worthy to
  be compared with the glory which shall be
  revealed in us.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• When you live in the past you are likely to live
  in fear. (Ex. disappointments from brethren.)

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• When you live in the past you are likely to live
  in fear. (Ex. disappointments from brethren.)
• Learn how to build from your disappointments.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• When you live in the past you are likely to live
  in fear. (Ex. disappointments from brethren.)
• Learn how to build from your disappointments.
• Let your hurts slow you down and cause you to
  turn to God. (Jas 12-5)

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• James 12-5 (NKJV) - My brethren, count it all
  joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing
  that the testing of your faith produces patience.
  4 But let patience have its perfect work, that
  you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
  5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God,
  who gives to all liberally and without reproach,
  and it will be given to him.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• Sometimes it is the hurts of life that cause us
  to look again at what really is valuable.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• Sometimes it is the hurts of life that cause us
  to look again at what really is valuable.
• One person said "I am more fun to live with and
  I have more fun living.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• Sometimes it is the hurts of life that cause us
  to look again at what really is valuable.
• One person said "I am more fun to live with and
  I have more fun living.
• Three things which faith teaches us.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• Sometimes it is the hurts of life that cause us
  to look again at what really is valuable.
• One person said "I am more fun to live with and
  I have more fun living.
• Three things which faith teaches us.
• Listen to God. (Ps 375-9)

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• Psalm 375-9 (NKJV) - Commit your way to the
  LORD, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it
  to pass. 6 He shall bring forth your
  righteousness as the light, And your justice as
  the noonday. 7 Rest in the LORD, and wait
  patiently for Him Do not fret because of him who
  prospers in his way, Because of the man who
  brings wicked schemes to pass.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath Do not
  fretit only causes harm. 9 For evildoers shall
  be cut off But those who wait on the LORD, They
  shall inherit the earth.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• Commit your ways to God, He knows already! (Heb
  413)

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• Hebrews 413 (NKJV) - And there is no creature
  hidden from His sight, but all things are naked
  and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give
  account.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• Trust in the God who holds the future. (Rom 828)

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• Romans 828 (NKJV) - 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.

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• "I do not know what the future may hold, but I
  know who holds the future."

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• "I do not know what the future may hold, but I
  know who holds the future."
• Are you walking by faith or by feelings?

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Faith Teaches Us to Let Go of the Past

• "I do not know what the future may hold, but I
  know who holds the future."
• Are you walking by faith or by feelings?
• God will take you where you are and help you heal
  that wounded spirit.