You Are Not Defined By Your Past

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🚨 Here’s a truth that can set someone free today:

👉 Your past is a place of reference, not residence. You are not defined by your past.

Too many people live chained to mistakes, failures, or seasons that almost broke them. But listen closely: the blood of Jesus didn’t just forgive your past—it redefined it.

Paul, once a persecutor of Christians, became the Apostle who wrote two-thirds of the New Testament.Peter, who denied Jesus three times, became the rock the Church was built upon.Rahab, labeled a prostitute, was written into the lineage of Christ.

💡 Your past does not disqualify you—it prepares you.

God is not afraid of what you’ve done. He is only interested in what you will become when you trust Him fully.

Scripture thunders this truth:

• “If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here!” (2 Cor. 5:17)

• “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!” (Isaiah 43:18–19)

Your past is proof you’ve been through something. Your future is proof you’re going to something.

So stop rehearsing old wounds. Start declaring new beginnings. You are not your history. You are His story; You are not defined by your past.

✨ Call to Action ✨

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