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Grace & Peace!

A few years ago, God impacted me with another truth.  He told me that He is able to bless me: past, present or future.  I didn’t get the fullness of what He meant but I knew it was Him and I received that promise in my spirit.  Shortly after, it was time to file my income tax.  I had become a little weary when it came to filing taxes because I didn’t receive all the education necessary on how to prepare for filing, so God would bless every year and every year I’d have to pay taxes.  I filed my income taxes and followed the leading of the Lord and spoke a word to my past.  That one word was GREATER!  My faith and my praise were red hot.  That year, for the first time in years, I received several thousand dollars in a tax refund.  Wow!  For me, this was unheard of.  Then my tax accountant told me to bring him my files for the previous two years.  I did ask he asked and found out that he was able to go back in my past and cause a refund (I call it a blessing) for those those years, again, several thousand dollars each.  I thought, if a man can go back into your past and change some circumstances and cause you to be blessed, God has got to be able to do that and more.

Years have passed and this year I experienced one of the greatest tragedies of my life.  My pastor passed away!  For me, this was a man who was a spiritual force in my life.  He literally taught everything I now know about God, Worship and spiritual living with power.  This took me for a loop.  I sat for days wondering what would now become of my life, how would I support my family.  I work at my church so things just looked questionable.  BUT GOD!  God came to me and told me that He has my future covered.  And, in order for me to know that He’s got me covered, He was going to cause blessings to come out of my past to cause me to believe that if He could make my past bless me then the future (in its purity, free from circumstances, situations and mistakes), is no problem at all.  Immediately I recieved blessings from things I did in the 80′s and 90′s!  Who would have thought?!

God told me that to me my past is a was, but to Him my past is an is, because He stands present in my past, present and future at the same time.  He told me it is but a light thing for Him.  He could make my past, present or future bless me because He is God!

So, I wanted to encourage you who feel like your past is only a memory of misery, mistakes and other circumstances you wish you could change.  There is a God and His Name is Jesus.  He wants to bless you.  Don’t limit Him.  Give Him your past, your present and your future.  You will probably find out just as I did–there’s a BLESSING BEHIND YOU!

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