Fw: Move on to Victory

Team:

Today's Coach is Oregon's Pastor Jon Courson. Today's Quarterback is Tom Oneal. Thanks Tom for calling the Play today.

Coach Jon says we need Forget the Past mistakes and move on to Victory.

Do you ever live in the Past? Worried about past mistakes? Is there a recorder in your brain that reminds you of your past mistakes?

Turn Off the recorder of the past and Turn On and Listen to the Holy Spirit telling you about God's Great Plans for your Future. Jer 29:11 / Phil 4:13

In football we sometimes get a Penalty Flag for making a mistake. Sometimes we fumble and get intercepted ect...

If we dwell on the mistakes and penalties we will lose.

We need to Move On!

"When you make a mistake, admit it; learn from it and don't repeat it."

Bear Bryant Former Head Coach Alabama ⁠Football    ⁠   

Don't be afraid to make a mistake.
Sometimes the greatest learning comes from mistakes.

I told my 6th Grade daughter to Foul out in Basketball. I said if you Foul out we will Win. Juliana is by nature shy. We needed her to be Aggressive to Beat this Bigger and Stronger Player.

She not only fouled out but she also got 5 steals and made a Great Free Throw. She got over the fear of making a mistake. By the way we won by that one Free Throw.

"Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe."
Proverbs 29:25

The Fear of making a mistake will trip you up.

"To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes."

Julius Erving ⁠ Dr. J
Philadelphia 76ers   ⁠   

"People fail forward to success".
Mary Kay Ash

"See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you" Isaiah 42:9

Today is a New Day!

"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" Romans 8:1

Forget the Past!

Now - Just Go! Win the Day!

Rick
Phil 4:13
http://huddle360.blogspot.com

And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
Judges 1:19

Why couldn't Judah drive out the inhabitants of the valley? Because their eyes were fixed on the iron chariots rather than on Almighty God.

If your eyes are fixed on the Lord, I care not how formidable your foe might be, it can be overcome.

But if your eyes are on the obstacle - if you're focused on the problem, if you're in bondage to your past - you will not drive out your enemy no matter how small it is.

You've got to lift your eyes higher and fix them on the Father. Yes, the enemies of Judah had chariots of iron, but if Judah had lifted their eyes higher and focused upon the One who has twenty thousand chariots at His command (Psalm 68:17), they would have been victorious.

Judah was successful in the mountains, but they were discouraged and defeated in the valley.

We sometimes tend to live in our past.

We think that because we've had problems with iron chariots previously, we need always be fearful whenever we see them on the horizon.

Not true. We need to be a people who put the past behind us - past defeats, past discouragements, past wounds, past failures, past sins.

"This one thing I do," said our brother, Paul, "forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:13-14).

We need to put the past away and lift our eyes higher - beyond the failure of the past, beyond the chariots of the present - to the high calling of God Who enables us to do all that He asks of us.

This Daily Devotional is an excerpt from the book "Footsteps of the Flock" by Pastor Jon.