look ahead move ahead

*Recap of*

*Be Inspired Intercessory Prayer and Testimony*

*Tuesday 14th January 2020*

*Anchored by Sis Leah Adepeju*

*Topic: Look Ahead, Move Ahead*

*Text:* Phillipians 3:13

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Philippians 3:13 KJV

The topic says *_Look Ahead, Move Ahead._*

What do you understand by the expression 'Look ahead, Move ahead'?

*Sis Queeneth:* When there's a movement forward. Seeing beyond the present.

*@Yetty:* Move ahead is to advance to a position.

*@Hellenism:* The future.

*Sis Leah:* Thanks, all.

When you say you are looking ahead..

It's a phrasal verb to anticipate on what will happen in the future..

When you move ahead it means change to higher or advance in position.

Taking the word in Philippians 3:13.

Looking at it from another context.....

Apostle Paul was talking here and he said..

I count not myself to have apprehended...

*_I am not saying I have arrived in a lame man's term. But this one thing I do..._*

Forgetting those things which are behind...

*_I am not getting stuck to my rear view again. _*

And reaching forth unto those things which are before.

*_I am reaching for a future goal._*

Apostle Paul before His encounter on his way to Damascus was a Christian persecutor. In fact he led the stoning of Stephen..

He killed Christians, those who believed in Christ. In his own little and blurred knowledge he was getting rid of the bad eggs, the people that were not meant to be there.

The stains to the value of the kingdom, they didn't deserve to live again.

But once he got saved... He chose not to get stuck to his rear view rather he wanted to constantly focus on what awaited him in this new life he had found.

Many might be thinking *but  I am not Apostle Paul.*

Yes I know but tonight I want the Holy spirit to minister to your inner man.

Say to yourself...

*it's high time I left the rear view and stay focused on what is to come.*

It's a new year, glory be to God...

But, guess what? You know that time is forward moving and never backward moving.

The tomorrow you anticipated to see yesterday is now today and the today you procrastinated on is now yesterday.

When they say time waits for no man it's not just a saying it's a reality.

The things you procrastinated on yesterday will be left undone by tomorrow if today you have no active plan to do anything about them.

In life you cannot achieve or be what God wants you to be if what happened in the past is always on your table daily and all you do is dissect it and keep nurturing it until it's become part of the stagnant water laying in the canal of your mind.

Life is not about staying put but experiencing change each and everyday.

Many have so much aspirations

Dreams

Goals

Desires

But because you failed on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or whatever attempt doesn't necessarily mean you settle as a failure.

I read the verse above in The Message Translation and honestly except a person's mind is delusional or no longer processing information that is when the person won't understand what this verse means..

Looking deep into it and meditating on it the Holy Spirit will obviously enlighten you on what it means.

You lazy fool, look at an ant. Watch it closely; let it teach you a thing or two. Nobody has to tell it what to do. All summer it stores up food; at harvest it stockpiles provisions. So how long are you going to laze around doing nothing? How long before you get out of bed? A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy—do you know what comes next? Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, poverty your permanent houseguest!

Proverbs 6:6‭-‬11 MSG

Imagine someone who keeps asking others for help seeking people to raise him/her up but such person just goes back to their bed, sleep and snooze on whatever promises people give to them but the person never for once attempts to do anything for themselves.

Do you think suddenly that person will experience a shift when all they do is just wait when they aren't incapacitated?

Beloved God has given you some great dreams that only you can make it come true.

God has given you a unique idea that only you can birth successfully.

For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord , which run to and fro through the whole earth.

Zechariah 4:10 KJV

https://bible.com/bible/1/zec.4.10.KJV

Many despise the days of little beginning even before they start anything in life.

Many are stuck in life's journey because they fail to look or see or move beyond the past.

Do you know, if Apostle Paul was constantly beating himself up as a persecutor and not a redeemed being he would never have achieved or fulfilled purpose?

Ask yourself: What is stopping me from moving on?

What is delaying me from looking ahead?

At times some of us make our dream so minute yet we glorify our challenges.

We exalt the difficulties so much so even when solution lies ahead of us we are so skeptical to take it on board.

I was listening to some messages recently.

And the preacher said: After slavery was abolished in America many of the slaves who were born in slavery who had now become generational slaves.

Even when they were told that they were free men or women or children or family, they refused to leave to places where they could use their freedom positively and live a life filled with purpose.

Do you know you can be delivered and yet still live in bondage because the mindset that was in you before deliverance has not changed and until it's changed you cannot live in freedom that the deliverance brought to you?

 I hope this message is getting your fire of achievement and purpose to be ignited.

Don't be limited by what surrounds you.

That same place where you claim and many claim it's not possible there lies lots of possibilities.

But you must start from somewhere. 

You need to look ahead.

You need to move ahead.

Faith is active.

Faith is now.

Faith is a verb that is always present and it's useful if all you do is talk faith but never act faith

Start from somewhere.

If I had this I will be much better.

Maybe if I get this things will be better. 

What about that which you have at present? What is your plan in advancing it?

Many want to call mountains down to fall but they never want to step higher to another level in their relationship with God.

I hope you will be inspired to stop dwelling in the place of regret.

Stop dwelling and waiting on empty promises.

Stop calling God to move when all you do is snooze.

You need to change that mindset to have a set achievement this year.

You need to stop allowing that past hurt to stop you from moving on.

The fact that someone let you down in a business doesn't mean you give up on having any business dealing.

You take active steps of faith as God directs you.

Don't be like the slave that stayed put in slavery even when the freedom bell rung.

May the Lord Almighty help us all to see beyond our natural eyes and sense in Jesus name.

I pray that as many stuck in the dust and flames of the past, as the Lord sets you free today may you be free indeed as you embrace total and divine freedom in Jesus name.

I pray for as many who have found it difficult to actually live on, today the Burden Bearer will relieve you of all burdens and set you free in Jesus name.

I pray that every heart filled with heaviness today receive ease in Jesus name.

 I pray that person who is being limited by past mistake as you choose to let go and forgive, may the Lord order your steps right.

I pray for many who have chased same goal year in and year out and are about to throw in the towel receive grace to excel and succeed in Jesus name.

I pray that henceforth procrastination, discouragement and failure will be things of the past in our lives in Jesus name.

As you chose to look ahead to God and move as He orders your steps you will never be disappointed in Jesus mighty name.

May the Lord wipe those years away in Jesus mighty name.

This same month you will testify of what great things God has done in your life and family in Jesus name.

Thank you Heavenly Father for answered prayers in Jesus mighty name.

Amen.