Faithful Friday: Don't Let Your Past Haunt You

Hello all!
Thank you for joining me today and happy Faithful Friday to you!
Today we will be talking about something that drifts in to my mind from time to time. I know I must not be alone so I decided to share this with you.

You all know that my relationship with God is a HUGE part of my life. I make it a point to pray every morning and every night. I think that is the best way to start and end a day and it puts me in the right mindset to stay on track. There are times when thoughts will sneak their way into my head about things I have done in the past. I don't want to say that I regret but maybe a better way to put it is that if I could go back in time I would have maybe done things differently?? Even that doesn't really ring true. I don't regret my past because I think that certain experiences (good or bad) have shaped me into the person I am today.

The reason why I am bringing this up is because I think I am in a good place in my spiritual journey. No, I am not at my full potential...yet! and I hope to continue growing as the years go on. But as I said above, sometimes when I am praying these thoughts will come back into my mind of things in my past that I am not necessarily proud of, bad decisions, relationships gone bad, people I have hurt. Then I start to feel guilt come over me and before I know it I'm not praying anymore, instead I am going down the wrong turn at memory lane! I am sure you Christian's know EXACTLY who is responsible for that. But if you don't, and this has happened (or is happening) to you I will tell you who is tormenting you with these thoughts. It's the devil, himself. Yep, believe it or not, he waits for times when you are vulnerable to play his wicked games with you. When he sees that you are devoting time to God he hates it and he will try to throw everything in your face to stop you and take your focus away from God or anything that it Holy, for that matter. If this is happening to you, I urge you to be aware of his tactics, he is always waiting for the chance to attack you. Don't let him win!

This is what I do to stop him in his tracks, in fact, I did this just the other morning. I was having a good prayer session, I mean a good one! I was thanking God for all He has done, asking Him to continue to guide me, and so on, and so on. Then here came the thoughts. As soon as I realized I wasn't praying anymore and started to feel down on myself. I said out loud (no I wasn't screaming, but if you want to, go ahead!) that the devil has no power over me and no place in my life or home, That he is not welcome in this house and that The Holy Spirit dwells there. That my life belongs to Jesus and I refuse to let the devil have any part of me. Yep, I put the devil right in his place!
I can't remember everything I said but I was on a rant for a few minutes. Then suddenly, I was filled with such a peace and tears filled my eyes. The Holy Spirit kindly reminded me that God was there with me as I was fighting off the devil and we made it out TOGETHER. Just like WE always do, and always will.

Please, friends be aware that we Christian's are in spiritual warfare all of the time! (Thanks to Joyce Meyer for that term). We need to put on that armor of God and not be afraid to fight when we need to. Please don't be afraid to stand your ground when it comes to the devil. He will continue to attack you. The closer you get to God, the more the devil wants you so he can win. I know from experience. Any time I am growing closer to The Lord, I am attacked in one way or another. Remember, God loves you. He will protect you and He will give you the strength to fight off the enemy.

I hope you found this post helpful. If you think I am some crazy lady because I was yelling at the devil in my bathroom then so be it. haha! I'll be a crazy Christian anytime as long as I means I am serving Jesus.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this post and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
See you back on Monday.

Until next time...
Xoxo,
Adela

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