There will be series of messages until the end of the year entitled ‘Entering Into Year 2022’ as a preparation for entering into 2022 spiritual before the year ends.

“Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: “For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father’s house.” And the name of the second he called Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.””
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭41:51-52‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The blessing of fruitfulness only came after God caused Joseph to forget the trouble of his past. A bad past not dealt with will lead to a problematic future.

The past must be dealt with (Isaiah 42: 9)

Purpose of this message:

There are 44 days before we enter into 2022. We want to leave behind the past so that we can take hold of all 365 days of 2022.

3 Reasons We Cannot Forget the Past

1. We keep turning back (Luke 17: 32) much like Lot’s wife who looked back when fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah, who did not believe there was a better future ahead. We need divine forgetfulness to step into the progressive will of God, going from glory to glory. The past is something we learn from, not a reality we hold on to. (Philippians 3: 13-14, 2 Corinthians 3:18)

2. We keep nursing our hurts. We need to learn to forgive ourselves and others. (Hebrews 13: 15) We fall short of the glory of God and defile ourselves when we continue to nurse our hurts. Living in the past keeps us in fruitfulness. The woman with the issue of blood was hindered in her life due to her issue but decided to not stay in a hurts (Philippians 3 13-14 , Luke 17:1).

3. We need and don’t have God’s perspective on our past (Isaiah 43: 18-19). He longs to do a new thing in our lives and for us to forget the past.

Isaiah 40:31
1. God is not the God of the past but the God of our future. We are terribly mistaken and disappointed if we think God is the God of our past.

2. God is the God of the new. (Daniel 2:20)

3. He is the God of the now. (Hebrews 11:6, Philippians 2: 13, Ephesians 3: 20)

4. He is the God of the next. (Isaiah 43:19). We need to consecrate ourselves to enter into 2022 spiritually (Joshua 3:5)