“What Time Zone do You Live In?” Soak it Up 3 “What Time Zone do You Live In?”

CHANGE is here to stay! How are you navigating the changes in your life? What is changing around you? & how are you coping? What is next for you? What do you want to be different? What are you doing about creating the difference?

What Time Zone are you in? Romans 8:38,39 “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” What about the past?

Stumbling Blocks from the Past Resentment: Unforgiveness toward others Regret: Unforgiveness toward self Re-Project Wrong Conclusions “Religious-ize” our perspectives “Would-a, Could-a, Should-a”

What We Possess… 1 Corinthians 3:21-23 “All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.” What about the Past? (It belongs to HIM!) (It’s “under the blood”!)

Forget the Past! “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” Isaiah 43:18 “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind.” Isaiah 65:17 “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

“How to get what you really want.” Sub-titled “Changing your outlook & overcome self-fulfilling prophecies” Jennice Vilhauer, PhD “People get what they Expect, Not what they Want!” Difference = Stress

Create Your Future! Your Past does not limit you! What you believe limits you! Inner script from past experiences project expectations onto similar future events. Psych: Expectation + Action  Creation Bible: Hope + Faith  Creation

Create Your Future Assess your emotion Define your outcome Plan your course

The Eternal God “He who Was, who Is & who is to come” (Outside Time) “He sees the beginning from the end.” (Through Time) He has access to all time all the time! He heals the damage from the past: What happened in your past does not change. What you think it means radically changes!