Moving On Into Your Future

Moving On Into Your Future

Stop staring at the closed doors. 

Stop viewing your life through the rear view mirror. 

Stop running backward with eyes on your past. 

Stop chaining your future with your past. 

Stop trying to be the person that you were in the past but start becoming the person that God wants you to be - now and for the future. 

God was there for you in your past but those seasons are now over. Whether your past was good or bad, God does not want you to dwell there. He has new seasons for you.

Only by living in the present and facing the future, you will be able to become the person that God wants you to be. 

Move on, Egypt is behind you. The wilderness is behind you. Time to move on to the Promised Land. 

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14)

Rev Albert Kang

New Year's Tips for Better Living

New Year's Tips for Better Living

"Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun."1

Here are twenty tips for better living in the New Year:

1. Rise and pray every day: "Again today, dear God, I commit and trust my life and way to you. I'm available. Please use me to be 'as Jesus' to every life I touch."

2. Don't sweat the small stuff.

3. Remember these simple sentences: "I was wrong." "I am sorry." "Please forgive me." "Thank you." Say  them whenever needed and say "I love you" often—  whether needed or not.

4. Come apart and rest a while before you come apart—  stress is a killer.

5. Remember, "Nothing changes if nothing changes."

6. Don't nurse grudges: "Failing to forgive is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

7. Carpe diem. Seize the day. "Opportunity comes to pass—not to pause."

8. Quit the blame-game—"choice, not chance, determines destiny."

9. Control your thinking or your thinking will control you. "What the mind dwells on the body acts on."

10. Invest your life in a worthwhile cause by having a  noble purpose for which to live—one that is bigger than yourself—one that will help make your world a better place in which to live.

11. Be a positive realist. You will always see what you are looking for: "Two men look out the same prison bars. One sees mud, the other stars."

12. The greatest abilities are availability, dependability,and responsibility."

13. "There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience."

14. "Smooth seas never make skillful sailors."

15. When God is silent. "I believe in the sun even when it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when he is silent."

16. Cry when needed. "Every unshed tear is a prism through which all of life's hurts are distorted."

17. Laugh a lot. It's still the best medicine.

18. Remember, "The bumps are what we climb on."

19. Fear not. At least 95 percent of the things we fear never happen. Trust God for the other five percent.

20. Have faith and put God first with your time, talents, and tithe (money).

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, please help me to so live. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus' name, amen."

1. Psalm 37:3-6 (NIV).

By Dick Innes

NOTE: "Tips for Better Living" is available on the ACTS online store beautifully presented at: http://tinyurl.com/tips4living.

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