It's hard for us to win the battle for our hearts and minds when we're haunted by the regrets of our past.
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Jesus invites us to come to Him for rest, rest for our souls, rest from the burdens we carry from our past choices and failures. Rest from our regrets. What an offer!! What a promise!!
Spoken to a group of guys at a rehabilitation centre, Derek, shares this weeks message around: No regrets.
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"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free!"
(John 8:32) 🗡🏴🔥❤️
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Song: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Album: American IV: The Man Comes Around
Artist: Johnny Cash
Released: 2002
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“yet I am glad now, not because you were hurt and made sorry, but because your sorrow led to repentance [and you turned back to God]; for you felt a grief such as God meant you to feel, so that you might not suffer loss in anything on our account. For [godly] sorrow that is in accord with the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation; but worldly sorrow [the hopeless sorrow of those who do not believe] produces death.”
2 Corinthians 7:9-10 AMP
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“Now I’m glad—not that you were upset, but that you were jarred into turning things around. You let the distress bring you to God, not drive you from him. The result was all gain, no loss. Distress that drives us to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation. We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive them away from God are full of regrets, end up on a deathbed of regrets.”
2 Corinthians 7:8-10 MSG
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“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls.
Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”
““Are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? Come to me. I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis. Simply join your life with mine. Learn my ways and you’ll discover that I’m gentle, humble, easy to please. You will find refreshment and rest in me.”
Matthew 11:28-29 TPT
