{"id":1449,"date":"2020-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:42:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:42:41","slug":"old-echoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/old-echoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Echoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus called the devil <i>\u2018a liar and the father of lies.\u2019<\/i> (John\u00a08:44<sup>\u00a0NIV<\/sup>) Yet it\u2019s so easy to fall into the trap of listening to past voices condemning us, as old echoes reverberate in our minds. The enemy\u2019s accusations can leverage off past hurts to make us hide from God: \u2018You\u2019re not good enough. You don\u2019t pray enough. Nobody could ever love you if they knew the real you. What you\u2019ve done is unforgiveable. You\u2019ll never receive God\u2019s blessing.\u2019 These are lies. Don\u2019t let your past mistakes define your relationship with God. He doesn\u2019t! <\/p>\n<p>Paul said, <i>\u2018I do not do the good things I want to do\u2026 I do the bad things I do not want to do.\u2019<\/i> (Romans\u00a07:19<sup>\u00a0NCV<\/sup>) Like Paul, recognise that you\u2019ve sinned but don\u2019t get mired in guilt. Repent of the wrong you\u2019ve done and repent of believing the lies of the enemy. Ask Jesus to empower your words and then press forward into a new day. After all, you can\u2019t change the past. But Jesus is the One who offers you the chance to change the future. If you\u2019re still thinking, \u2018I don\u2019t have a future. I\u2019ve messed up too often,\u2019 that\u2019s the enemy, not the Lord. <\/p>\n<p>God says your accuser been <i>\u2018cast down.\u2019<\/i> (Revelation\u00a012:10<sup>\u00a0KJV<\/sup>) So stand your ground, and remind him that <i> \u2018God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.\u2019<\/i> Like all of us, you\u2019ve probably made your fair share of mistakes. But positionally God sees you \u2018in Christ\u2019, so you\u2019re \u2018complete\u2019, \u2018justified\u2019, and \u2018accepted\u2019. Conditionally you\u2019re a work-in-progress\u2014and He won\u2019t give up on you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus called the devil \u2018a liar and the father of lies.\u2019 (John\u00a08:44\u00a0NIV) Yet it\u2019s so easy to fall into the trap of listening to past voices condemning us, as old echoes reverberate in our minds. The enemy\u2019s accusations can leverage off past hurts to make us hide from God: \u2018You\u2019re not good enough. You don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}