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Redeeming Your Past - Lesson 3

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Finding Your Promised Land - Lesson 3

Give an honest heartfelt answer to each of the questions below:

Rate your self on a scale of 1-5

1. This is not true of me.
2. I struggle to believe this.
3. I think it is true but I do not always believe it.
4. I honestly believe this is true and I live it most of the time.
5. I believe this, this is who I am, and I live it every day.

I am totally acceptable	1	2	3	4	5
I am pleasing to God	1	2	3	4	5
I am worthy of blessing	1	2	3	4	5
I am affirmed by God	1	2	3	4	5
I am a child of the King	1	2	3	4	5
I am a joint heir with Christ	1	2	3	4	5

On the negative side -

I am a failure.	1	2	3	4	5
I do not deserve good things.	1	2	3	4	5
Other people are better than me.	1	2	3	4	5
I am not sure that I am saved.	1	2	3	4	5
I do not "measure up."	1	2	3	4	5
I am abandoned.	1	2	3	4	5
I am unlovable.	1	2	3	4	5
I am not capable.	1	2	3	4	5
I am poor.	1	2	3	4	5
I am not smart.	1	2	3	4	5

The key to redemption is to determine what is going on in your present day mind.

Challenge Yourself with the Following Questions about Your Mind:

• Is what you believe about yourself in agreement with Scripture?
• What is the root of this belief?
• Where did it begin?
• How long have you believed this about yourself?
• What have you done to cover-up this belief about yourself?
• Are you wearing a mask?
• Are you afraid that if your friends knew the real you, they might not accept you?
• Have you created a “false self?”
• What do you do to maintain this “false self?”
• Are you getting tired of just trying to maintain?
• Do you feel pressured to be this false self or just to be someone else?

The Real and the False Self:

• When the true self hides the false self takes over.
• The false self heals by its own methods.
• The false self is in agreement with the world’s standards.
• The real self is the only person that God wants to deal with.

The primary key to overcoming your past and moving into your promised land is to examine your present day beliefs and desires.

Your beliefs and personal hungers can be your blessing to your future or they can be your stumbling block.

Is your past still slowing you down? The answer is in your thought life today.

By examining your thoughts and honestly determining what you believe that is contrary to Scripture, you can conclude what healing is still needed.

Most people’s negative beliefs have been shaped through painful past experiences. "As a man thinks within is heart so is he" (see Proverbs 22:7).

Your past experiences do not determine your future. Your past is a teacher and perhaps a strength and wisdom builder, but it still does not determine your entrance into your promised land.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much – James 5:16 (KJV).

God is a God of truth. No cover-up of any sort will work with Him. Admitting the truth about yourself to God is a giant step toward freedom. Admitting the truth about yourself to another person is also required.

Admission, confession, and asking for help are God’s way. Pride will try to keep you silent and that will keep you from moving forward. God loves humility!

God heals the broken hearted - Isaiah 61:1- The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;.

It is clear that the anointing of the Holy Spirit brings healing to the heart and freedom to anyone who is bound. So logically, we should be filled with the Spirit to be free from hindrances.

Ephesians 5:18 - And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit.

Study Questions:

1. What is the primary key to redeeming your past?
2. Why do your past experiences do not necessarily have to shape your future?
3. Why is confessing our faults important?
4. What is the problem with pride?

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Redeeming Your Past - Lesson 1

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Finding Your Promised Land - Lesson 1

Isaiah 54:4-5 - Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be put to shame; for you will forget the shame of your youth.

The purpose of this course is to honestly look at anything within your personal belief system or your personal emotional psyche that is hindering you from moving forward into what the Lord has for you. In this course we will discuss how to apply healing to yourself and any loved one who has been adversely affected by their past.

A basic premise of life is that until you are working toward your God created purpose you will not find true satisfaction or peace. Your entire life, there have been dark forces that have come against you to keep you from what God has purposed for you. They can simply be called schemes. These schemes are customized by Satan just for you. This is a counter attack against the positive plans of God in your life.

In this teaching we are going to explore truth. We are going to look at painful facts and we are going to examine truths that can set you free.

Facing the negative forces in your live has only one purpose. That is to deal with them and gain freedom to move into your purpose.

When you complete this video, click the "Go On to Next Section" button at the bottom of this page to continue with the orientation course.

As we examine truth, you will discover that truth alone will not make you free. It seems that it should, but if you do not add the other elements needed, truth will simply work to bring on condemnation.

For personal growth and healing we need God’s truth, God’s grace and acceptance, and perhaps most importantly, we need time.

God can most assuredly heal instantaneously, but most often He heals through growing processes which require a continual diet of truth, along with His grace, and time for it all to take place.

Most of the world is in a continual vain search for satisfaction.

Have you ever or are you currently experiencing an underlying personal hunger or a sense of dissatisfaction or frustration with your personal life?

Hunger according to Webster - To feel the pain or uneasiness which is occasioned by a long abstinence from food. To desire with great eagerness; to crave.

No one likes to be hungry. Hunger is caused when you are away from something or someone too long.

You are born with hunger. Hunger for food, hunger for love, hunger for acceptance, hunger for money, hunger for contentment. The list could go on and on.

Hunger drives the world system and even though much hunger is legitimate it will never be satisfied through what modern society offers.

The question is what are you hungry for? The world offers a continual menu of items to desire - fame, power, money, alcohol, drugs, and material pleasures of every description. The problem, that so many find out too late, is that nothing the world offers will bring satisfaction. The world system creates a continuous ongoing hunger for more and more. The search is endless, this trying to find satisfaction for the hunger within a man’s soul.

This is the Trap of Never Enough:

• Never enough money
• Never enough clothes
• Never enough stuff – man toys, etc.

The search for satisfaction from hunger goes on and on, driving mankind deeper and deeper into the debt of materialism.

This hunger goes deeper than just material goods; it actually drives man to try in vain to find his value, identity and self-worth through an amazingly faulty world view. Finding self value through success, money, power, position, etc. are all illegitimate attempts by man to legitimize himself through the worlds system. Ultimately, it can never succeed.

This continual sense of dissatisfaction fuels the search for contentment.

Have you ever wondered why people with a lot of money never seem to have enough money?

Have you ever wondered why successful people, according to the world’s standards, never seem to have enough?

The world system that we have all grown up with offers a continual menu of never enough. The fact that we can never get enough causes us to be continually striving for enough. It is an impossible task.

The perpetual hunger of all of mankind can only be satisfied through God.

The underlying issue is the search for fulfillment, happiness, peace, and accomplishment.

You will develop a hunger when you are missing something that you need or something that you desire. What you need may not always be what you desire.

When your hunger is for the right thing Jesus promised that you would be blessed – Matthew 5:6 - Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

John 4:14 - But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.

Some people who have hungered for a long time just get depressed and live under a very miserable dark cloud of sadness that sometimes leads into the pit of despair.

Some people who have become so frustrated with their continual hunger pains for what they are missing in their lives that they just choose to escape.

Methods of escape can be varied but they include the obvious, such as drugs and alcohol. Escape can also come through food, sex, shopping, work, sleep, and some people even thrive on crisis. If there is no immediate crisis they will create one. Church can even be an escape.

Denial can be a powerful escape mechanism also.

Projection is an escape also, wherein a person projects his or her faults onto someone else. This is commonly called blame shifting.

Not all escapes are bad, such as vacations and rest, but when escaping causes the issues to fester and grow worse, then escape is a serious problem.

We all naturally want our hunger to be satisfied; when it’s not we look for a way to escape.

It is natural to desire or be hungry for what you want. The problem lies in the fact that the world system offers a continual menu of strong temptations which cause desire for its offerings.

These temptations are intended to make you hungry and to create desires for what the world offers. It is a never ending cycle that causes people to work hard all of their lives trying to achieve the unachievable.

Hunger can be directed. It is literately what you set your minds on that will determine your hunger.

Romans 8:6 - For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life & peace.

When your hunger and desire equals God’s design and purpose for you; success and fulfillment are on the way.

An interesting thing is that when you are on the road to what God has in store for you, satisfaction can be found in every step of the journey.

Study Questions:

1. How does this promise apply to your life? Isaiah 54:4-5 - Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be put to shame; for you will forget the shame of your youth
2. In the context of this lesson what is a scheme?
3. Explain how hunger can be a powerful motivator.
4. How does Jesus satisfy hunger?

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Redeeming Your Past - Lesson 2

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Finding Your Promised Land - Lesson 2

Just as misdirected hunger can be a hindrance to your life, your belief system can hinder you as well.

Your life will be shaped by your personal beliefs.

Your deep rooted beliefs about yourself will have a powerful influence in your life.

Personal beliefs are shaped normally by your life experiences.

The messages of your past may still speak strongly today.

When you were born you were labeled by God - Jeremiah 1:5 - Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (KJV)

Satan also has been trying to label you ever since you were created.

God knows who you truly are because He created you.

God knows what He designed you for, because He created your purpose before you were born.

God gave you your true identity as one of His children. In Scripture there are over 200 verses that we call “Identity Scriptures.”

If God empathizes something in His word over 200 times, perhaps we should listen!

Examples of Your True Identity:

• I am a joint-heir with Christ - Romans 8:17
• I am more than a conqueror through Him Who loves me - Romans 8:37
• I am part of a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a purchased people - I Peter 2:9
• I am a new creature in Christ - II Corinthians 5:17
• I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ - II Corinthians 5:21
• I am born again of the incorruptible seed of the Word of God - I Peter 1:23
• I am seated with Christ in heavenly places - Ephesians 2:6
• I am a friend of Christ – John 15:15
• I am a child of God – John 1:12
• I am chosen by God – Ephesians 1:4
• I am His workmanship – Ephesians 2:10
• I am fearfully and wonderfully made – Psalms 139:14

Even though the truth is that you were created and given your identity through God, Satan has been trying to destroy that identity with his schemes ever since you were born.

Satan especially targets those who have been chosen for special purposes and anointing.

People with strong anointing and/or calls; generally suffer attacks throughout their lives.

Many victims of abuse have very strong calls to the ministry. That is why they were a target.

These attacks are not to destroy the person, but they actually are intended to stop that person from doing what God has ordained for them. It is always an attack against God’s purpose.

If a person can be stopped from his God–given purpose, then Satan can use this person for his purpose.

A person lives out his life according to what he believes about himself.

Satan knows that painful experiences can shape identities. Satan wants to shape your identity into one that is in agreement with the world’s system and at odds with God’s plan.

Negative experiences tend to create negative self beliefs.

Since your beliefs greatly affect your actions the demonic attacks are directed to destroy the truth about who you really are.

What you think and believe can be a product of many years of various influences.

Mind Types:

• Open Door Mind - some people think about anything that comes into their mind.
• Focused Mind – the mind is dominated by a particular thought. This can be good or bad.
• Controlled Mind – the mind is so heavily influenced by a thought that the brain is consumed and unable to think about anything else.
• Depraved Mind – habitual sin has taken control and consumed the thought life.
• Spirit Led Mind - Romans 8:6 but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.

Study Questions:

1. What is a belief system and how does it shape your life?
2. Why are some people targeted by the devil more than others?
3. How does a painful past shape an identity?
4. What does it mean to have a Holy Spirit led mind?

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