Your Past Does Not Disqualify You
Satan loves to make you feel like God can’t use you because what what you've done in the past or your brokenness because of what happened to you before. That's not how God looks at you. God used leaders who had done horrible things! You need to hear this
Moses, the man who set Israel free after 700 years of being enslaved by the Egyptians, murdered an Egyptian, then fled for his life and lived on the backside of a desert as a nomad shepherd for 40 years. Yet, God chose him. He is one of a handful of people in history who scripture says was a “friend” of God.
David was an adulterer who killed his lover’s husband after she became pregnant from his adultery. (2 Samuel 11: 1-27) David repented. God forgave David. Despite David’s sin, David is listed as a hero of our faith in Hebrews 12. God said David was “a man after God’s own heart.”
Paul was a religious maniac. He traveled to other countries to find and arrest believers, put them in jail, and he held the cloaks of those who stoned Stephen to death. (Acts 8:3, 9:1-2) But Jesus recruited Paul. Think about that for a moment. Jesus recruited one of His greatest enemies and turned him into probably the most effective missionary ever. And God used Paul to write 2/3 of the New Testament.
God truly doesn’t see people the way we do. And He doesn’t see us the way we see ourselves. God has an amazing ability to love us at our worst moments and see through the horrible things we are doing to see who we could be.
1 John 1:9 NKJV
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Psalm 34:5 NLT
Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces.
Activation
1. Declare this with me: (Say it out loud and mean it. It’s true!)
God uses broken people.
God heals, forgives, and restores us.
If God could use Moses, David and Paul, He can use me!
I am forgiven.
I have no guilt.
I have no shame.
Jesus washed away every bad thing I ever did.
God will use me.
I will complete God’s plan for my life.
Thank You God! I’m so grateful that I am forgiven
and that You have great plans for me.
2. Silence Accusing Voices with Scripture.
When you hear voices of accusation (your own, Satan, or others’) silence them.
Use scripture. Jesus defeated Satan with 3 words: “It is written…” You will too.
Romans 8:1-2 TPT
So now the case is closed. There remains no accusing voice of condemnation against those who are joined in life-union with Jesus, the Anointed One.
Isaiah 43:25 TPT
I, yes I, am the one and only who completely erases your sins and will not remember them again. I do this freely because of who I am.
There is now no condemnation for you because your life is in Christ.
You have been set free from the law of sin and death. You are under Jesus’ grace and your sin is forever covered by the blood. When God looks at you, He doesn’t see the sin of your past. He sees you with the righteousness of Jesus. He sees the perfect life of Jesus.
You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus:
2 Corinthians 5:21 TPT:
For God made the only one who did not know sin to become sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God through our union with him.
When you became a Christian, your life was forever joined with Jesus’ life. Jesus paid the full price for your sin on the cross. Jesus’ blood erased your sordid past. Now, You have a hope and a future.
3. Now, knowing how God sees you, ask Him to use you to do great things for Him.