TheeSoulFuel Podcast
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TheeSoulFuel Podcast
Breaking Free from Self-Blame
Ever wonder why self-forgiveness is so crucial for spiritual growth? Today on Soul Fuel Podcast, we unravel the transformative power of letting go of past mistakes and embracing God's infinite forgiveness. You'll hear compelling insights about why it's essential to break free from the chains of self-blame and move towards a more purposeful life through Christ's teachings.
Join us as we explore the practical steps and spiritual insights needed to forgive ourselves fully and leave past grudges behind. Discover how accepting divine forgiveness can lead to greater accountability and spiritual liberation.
what's going on everybody. Welcome to another episode of the soul fuel podcast, where this is your pit stop for your soul to be fueled for your journey in life doing it with christ. I'm your host, will robbins, the third, aka Pastor, will, listen, I hope that this message finds you in a great place and I just want to keep it simple today. I don't want to give you anything long, but I just want to encourage you and to let you know that, even though you have been the reason for a lot of your issues, right, a lot of the things that happen in your life um, I know I can say that about me the reasons why certain things I may not have, certain places that I may not have been, um, I could possibly say even you know the places that the jobs that I wanted to have before may be because of me, on one in one person, from one perspective, but also the things that I've done wrong in the past and that may be a reason as to why I could possibly be reaping certain things in my life. Listen, that's fine. Life is going to life.
Speaker 1:One thing I want you to understand is that you have to not beat yourself up. Don't beat yourself up. Don't beat yourself up over the past. If the Lord has forgiven you for all of your wrongdoing, then you need to forgive you of all of your wrongdoing. Because guess what, if you can't forgive yourself and the Lord has forgiven you and you wanted the Lord to forgive you how can he truly forgive you if you haven't forgiven yourself? It's no difference in when Jesus says forgive your neighbor, forgive others so that your heavenly father can forgive you, for if you do not forgive others, then how can the Lord forgive you? So, understand that you are no different from others, right? That you are no different from others, right? Because it, just because we're called to love our neighbor as ourselves, doesn't mean that you stop loving self or having love for yourself. I'm very careful with that, because I don't like this self-care term that people throw out. I believe in it, but I don't like how people talk about it, because it becomes a little selfish, right, but we want to always be in a great place to where we are doing. Well, we are confident in who we are because our identity is in Christ, right?
Speaker 1:But I really wanted to take the time to tell you not to beat yourself up, because there are so many people that can't get over the decisions that they've made. You can't get over. You know, for some of the people that they slept with some of the decisions that they made in terms of, like, leaving a job, losing a job being the reason that you lost the job. I can testify Right. But you can't beat yourself up.
Speaker 1:You know you had that moment when it first happened and, quite naturally, I think it's healthy when you have a certain level of accountability, and I think that beating yourself up right after you make a mistake, or beating yourself up after you have fallen away or you've done whatever ill thing that you've done, I believe that beating yourself up is a form of accountability. It's a form of accountability and in a lot of ways, I believe that it is the Holy Spirit that that is working in you to bring to your attention the possible things that were in the way to bring you to that place of sin, that place of bad decisions, that place of whatever it is that you did right. But you have to forget about those things and press toward the thing that is forward of you or before you, which is pressing toward the mark right, because you can't afford to sit and waddle in your past. Again, if the Lord forgives you, let it go. But I can't. I'm just. I just my my, it's what I did. I'm just. I don't understand how.
Speaker 1:Listen, it's not your job to try to understand how God could love you through a bad decision. He loved you before you gave your life to him, when we were yet in sin. He saved us, right, he saved us. That's not to say like you're saved before you actually get saved, but no salvation is available for you, and I want you to understand that you have been forgiven. So you must forgive yourself and you must move forward. You got to move forward. It's time to move forward. I want you to leave a comment in this episode.
Speaker 1:On this episode, I want you to leave a comment and say that I am forgiven. I really want you to really, uh, push that message to yourself. Know that you are forgiven, not firstly from the Lord you're forgiven Then secondly, yourself, right, because if he forgave you, then you have to forgive you, and when you forgive you, you know you're not holding what other people have done. See, then it moves out, it stretches out. Now you're not blaming others, you're being responsible, you're holding yourself accountable Because, again, it's the reason why you place the blame on yourself, because you know you're better than that. You know you're better than your decisions. You know you're better than your.
Speaker 1:We don't call sin a mistake. I don't call sin a mistake because sin is a choice right In every decision that we have made. We did it because we wanted to. We did it because we felt like it. So I'm just just again for the third time I this episode wasn't designed to be long, I just wanted to get on here and speak to that person that keeps on thinking about the past. That keeps on.
Speaker 1:We just left Houston and, as I prayed for a couple of people that were there without going into detail and who I prayed for and what I said, one of the things that I can say is that there was a common thread amongst a lot of people that were holding on to things and that the Holy Spirit was revealing it to me, not exactly what they were holding on to, but that, but the fact that they were holding on to things, and I guess we could say that that it is a broad word of knowledge to say that many people are holding on to things because they are Right, but it becomes more pressing and more strong when you are under the power, when you are under the influence of the power of the holy ghost that is using to you to pray for people, because sometimes I didn't know a lot of the times that I was praying for people, and when I pray for people and I don't know them, so I don't know what to say, sometimes I don't and I let again, let the spirit lead. But it's not about that. I just want I brought that up to let you know that there are a lot of people that are not letting things go, and some of the things that they're not letting go is the fact that they've made some bad decisions and they feel that those bad decisions are going to haunt them and and that they feel that some of those decisions are haunting them today and that they feel that some of those decisions are haunting them today. But here's what I say. I say what Bible says. I say what scripture says you have to continue to keep your faith and your trust in the Lord. You have to continue to love him through it, because he's loving you through it. He loved you enough to have grace and mercy and to keep you alive. You're still alive. That shows enough that he, that should show you right there that he loves you, that as long as you return that love by living for him, you have nothing to worry about, and all the things that the people could possibly say.
Speaker 1:The people that you've been with, the people that you have stepped with, the people that you moved with at one point, the people that you were in, you were in relationship with the people that you really you thought you gelled with, really you thought you gelled with. Listen, some of those people you have to let go, never be, never keep yourself around the company of people that always want to remind you of who you used to be. That's what's going. Those are the words of people that water the negative seeds that are not leaving your mind because you're choosing to coddle them. You know and it's not so much that you love playing the victim, but playing the victim kind of feels good because you're used to that. But what it is is you trying to come out of it, you're trying to fight it as much as possible, but it seems that it keeps on winning because the distraction and the focus comes off Jesus. The distraction and the focus comes off Jesus.
Speaker 1:The woman that was caught in idol idolatry, well, adult adultery, right. They bring her before jesus. Now I'm sure that she's feeling ashamed. I'm sure she's feeling everything bad in the book that we could think of she's embarrassed. Let's not even think about the fact that they're not even. They didn't even bring the man because according to old testament, the man was supposed to be both of these. Anybody caught in the act of adultery, according to leviticus, right was supposed to be like killed. But no, they just pulled the woman out and they used her as a trap for jesus.
Speaker 1:But, not realizing who he is, he writes something in the sand and I was thinking about this and there are a couple of theories out there about what did jesus write in the sand, because it doesn't say what he wrote wrote in the sand, but I, I believe, like other people believe, that he wrote the Ten Commandments in the sand. Maybe he wrote the first commandment, the second commandment, the third commandment, right. Maybe he wrote something about adultery. Maybe he wrote something about neighbors, right. Maybe he wrote about he wrote, but he just, we could, just say that we could. I believe it's safe to say that he wrote the word because he was the word. He wrote the law because he came for it to fulfill it, and so the reason why I bring up the woman caught in adultery is because they expected her to be condemned when he forgave her and he told her to not do it again.
Speaker 1:So, listen, that's what I'm telling you. I'm telling you what Jesus said Go in peace and sin no more. Don't go back to doing the thing that you're beating yourself up over. So I'm telling you today, I'm telling you to wipe your face. Blow your snotty nose, get the boogies out, dry your eyes. If you wear makeup, put your makeup on. Girl Brother, wipe your face, brother. Wipe your face. Lace up your J's, your Tim's, your. Whatever you wear, your forces, whatever you wear your slides, lace them up. Get over it. You've been forgiven.
Speaker 1:Stop beating up on yourself, stop abusing yourself, because you can't get over the thought of what you did. Just get over it. Get over yourself. Oh, that's so good. Get over yourself. You are better. You are better. The past is over. It cannot hold you. It can't hold you down.
Speaker 1:Listen, if your past holds you down, I want you to think of it like this it's like your past holds you down. Like you know, you're gonna hold me down while I'm, you know, hold me down like if I go in, if I go do a bid, you're gonna hold me down. Think of it like you saying while I'm trying to be free, hey past, you're gonna hold me down. Think of it like you saying why I'm trying to be free, a pass, you're gonna hold me down. Yo, I need you to hold me down, I need you to hold me down. You're worried, saying it's, saying that it's, it's building a relationship, an affectionate relationship with the past, like your thoughts, like you're married to your thoughts and you have to cancel it out. You have to tear it down. You have to tear it down.
Speaker 1:And I'm speaking to your soul today, tonight morning, whenever you're listening to this, because I want you to know that jehovah loves you, yahweh loves you, jesus loves you, yahweh loves you, jesus loves you. How do we know? The song says for the Bible tells me so, all right. So stop beating yourself up. It's over, it's over. I don't care if you have to listen to this message like a thousand times. Listen to this episode a thousand times. Listen to it then, because I'm going to say the same thing, because it's a replay. Okay, smile, today is going to be a good day. You're not a failure. You made some bad decisions. We all have made some bad decisions, but guess what? We're not our bad decisions when we decide to live out the good ones as we follow Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1:Listen, this has been another one of the Soul Fuel podcast. Again, this is the pit stop for your soul to get fueled up for your journey in life, doing it with Christ. Again, I am your host, will Robbins III, aka Pastor Will. I love you so much and, as I always say, there's nothing you can do about it. Listen, merch is coming soon.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to tell y'all what it's going to say, I'm going to just be wearing it and then you're going to ask where you get that from and I'm going to tell you exactly how to go get it. Until then, listen, details are also going to come in how you can support the pod, how you can support the podcast. I want to hear from you. Drop a line, leave a review, talk to me on the YouTube channel. Let me know what you think. Did this help you? Was this for you? Did I say this for you? Did the Lord give me this for you? Was this for you? Did I say this for you. Did the Lord give me this for you? Let me know. All right, until next time. Peace.
