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Remember the story of Lot’s wife who looked back? Angels were escorting Lot and his wife out of the evil city that was about to be destroyed by fire to get them to a safe place. But she stopped and turned to look at the city and became encrusted with salt. (Ref. Genesis 19.)
We have to let go of what’s behind us that was disappointing or harmful or upsetting. If we keep looking back, we’ll become encrusted. Stuck there. When we hang back and refuse to surrender, we make ourselves suffer. Be willing to go forward.
God has so many more positive things ahead for you. That’s when you can feel new and alive and know that you have a purpose.
We won’t be as the wife of Lot and hang back and become permanently stuck where we are, but we move forward and go into answers and blessings. We can do that as we set in our heart that there is no return. We’re not going back, but we will let go. When we do that, we can go forward at a much faster pace.
Negative Return.
Think of it in this way. How many times have you watched on TV as a space shuttle took off? Isn’t it exciting to hear the roar of all that power thrusting the spaceship up into the sky and eventually into space?
In that process, there is a point for which the astronauts and the control room are watching. It’s called “negative return.” That means the ship has reached a point where it has gone so far and so high that now it cannot return to the launch site. At this point the only direction they can go is forward and into orbit. They have been officially launched.
So once the astronauts hear the control room say “Negative return,” they know there is no going back. They’re on their way.
But what did they have to do? They had to surrender to the power of the ship that was carrying them. They had to let go of the launch site. If they’re going to see their goal accomplished, they cannot continue to hang around there. They cannot continue watching behind them. They have to come to the place where there is a negative return. They won’t go back. They’re going forward.
That’s where God wants you to be. Surrendering to the power that is carrying you. Let go of that launch site. Go forward, toward the positive future He has for you. That’s where you can see your goals accomplished. What God has put in your heart can come to fruition.
But it requires that you let go. Push back fear and doubt and unbelief and embrace faith. Let those rocket engines go.
It may not be the most comfortable thing you’ve ever done, but the thrill of going where God has for you…there is nothing like it. It’s tremendous. It’s where you really want to be. You don’t want to be stuck in that need or disappointment what hasn’t come to pass.
There is probably something that is not the way you want it to be. It’s not meeting your need. It isn’t getting you where you want to be. So God is saying to let go of that so He can take you forward into what is better. A positive future. When you get there, you will see what God was talking about. It will be beyond what you imagined.
Makes me think of what the man said who experienced a change in his spiritual life. His home was in the hills, and he would make moonshine with his stills. In fact, he made so much of it that he was called Mr. Moonshine. Everybody could get their supply from him.
Then one day God changed everything. This man surrendered it all to Jesus and he let go of the past. He destroyed all of his stills and poured out all the moonshine he had stored. Everywhere he went, to everyone he met, he would say, “Hallelujah.”
Finally, one day someone asked him what the word hallelujah meant. He paused and said, “You know, I really don’t know. But I think it’s a Hebrew word for ‘Hotdog this is it.’”
When we surrender everything to God, we will come to a place where we will say, “Hotdog this is it! Hallelujah, I have arrived. I’m at the place I desired. This is beyond what I could hope or imagine. God has truly fulfilled what was in my heart. He has taken me from those negative circumstances and given me a positive future.”
A Spiritual Powerline to say out loud:
“I’M GOING INTO A GREAT FUTURE!”
Here is a powerful prayer to say out loud:
Lord, I’m not afraid to let go and let You have Your way in my life. I know You will take me to special places that will be great for me. I enter into the place of blessing and wholeness and achievement and success. I go toward great things. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
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