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Galatians 3:26-27 (21st Century King James Version)

²⁶For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁷For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.

If you are a believer then you are a child of God.  As a daughter of the King that makes you a princess in the Kingdom of God.

I wish you to know that no matter what your past, that you have a father now, a daddy that loves you.  I really believe that His heart hurts when He sees that you don’t understand who you are.

You are a princess, and yes He knows that you are flawed, that you are human, that you make mistakes.  But make no mistake that as a princess in the Kingdom that you deserve so much more than what you are looking for at times.  Your Daddy has a grand plan for you if you will allow it to come to pass and not try to bring it to pass for your own flawed designs and efforts.

Look to God to fill the holes in your heart.  They won’t be filled by some guy that talks and talks and promises you his heart but all he has in mind is using you.  Don’t you know that you are special. Don’t you know that you are made for a purpose. Don’t you know that He not he has your best interests in mind. Players come and go, but the same one that asks you to be a princess in His Kingdom will never leave you.

He sees His potential daughters walking the streets and giving away themselves for money or maybe just a slickly turned phrase from the mouth of some guy.  He sees them trying and trying to fill a lack in their lives with guys that want only sex and give only abuse in return.  He made them for someone else special and He watches them give themselves away to those that don’t really care for her.

He asked you to come into His Kingdom and be a princess, stop settling for less than the prince He is preparing for you.

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Our new motto for LifeQuest Church is “Where the past doesn’t determine your future”.

So that if any one is in Christ, that one is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.  (2Co 5:17)

So many times we look at others and instead of seeing the new creation we still see what the person used to be.  We see the alcoholic, the druggie, the sex addict, the addictions they had, the liar, etc…    Even when we look at ourselves we do this – we think about how we can’t do something because of our imagined limitations or we worry about what others will think of us.

But God doesn’t care about any of that, the past that is. I think he does care that we still see ourselves and others as we used to be.  God doesn’t care about our past – I don’t think that God even remembers what we were,not that he can’t remember but he chooses to remember and see us as he has made us to be and not to see us as we were.

Our future is a blank page that we can write. Our past decisions don’t decide what goes on that page. our old addictions don’t decide, the dependencies we had don’t decide.  Our walk with Jesus will help us write what goes on that page and it may contain a future that you can’t even imagine right now.

Steve