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Make The Exchange!

You can’t change the past, but you can get a fresh start! In this message, Pastor Jeremy encourages us that we can be set free from our past mistakes and walk boldly into the future that God desires for us! It is an every day choice, but it will always lead us to life!

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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker

For you to go forward in 2024, You must move past the past.

God’s restart begins with this powerful gift: Forgiveness

For us to have a proper restart, we first need to be forgiven and released from the debt of our wrong choices.

You are a perfect candidate for a restart!

As long as you stay tethered to the mistakes of your past, you will limit the potential of your future.

God’s forgiveness unlocks the best future.

2 Corinthians 5:18-19 (NLT) “And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to Himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them.”

“To change, exchange” (Thayer’s Greek Lexicon of the New Testament)

God gives us the gift of forgiveness and a new life when we give Him our wrong choices and past.

We are changed when we exchange our sin for God’s gift of forgiveness.

Ephesians 2:8-10 (NLT) “God saved you by His grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.”

You are anew in Christ.

“Every day, I make the exchange.”

“It matters what we think about God, but it matters infinitely more what God thinks about us.” C.S. Lewis

Exchange your past for His future.

God doesn’t consult your past to determine your future.

Fail > Repent > Move Forward