Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

The continual recounting of your past mistakes makes them as real today as when they first happened. The difficulty everyone faces is how to balance holding on to the memory of the past without living in the past. Memories are precious and should be cherished, however dwelling on and reliving them should be avoided. We are to learn from the past and use these experiences for the progress of the next generation. The effects of slavery take many generations to overcome. It took the Israelites over a generation (40years) to get out of the wilderness because of their constant looking back towards what they knew, bondage. Before we achieve anything or aspire to anything, we must be able to visualise it. Develop a word picture of where you want to go and what you want to be. Write it down and recite it. Once you do this it will come to pass and the past will be there for reference but will not be somewhere where you live.

Today change your address and live in hope of a better, not a bitter future. In the wilderness the Israelites moaned and complained to God about everything, they died in the wilderness. The few that crossed over into the promised believed that God would lead and guide them to a place flowing with milk and honey. He did and today the descendants of Abraham are among the most prosperous people group on the planet! Read Exodus 17.