From Now On [Part 1]

Helen Wright, pastor, Bible teacher and author of his latest book, the power to bless Jesus began his ministry by speaking a series of blessed, blessed are the poor in spirit. When Jesus was teaching people just wanted to bring their little children to blast. I tell you almost 100% certainty when those little children came up to Jesus.

What is Amazon you would say many things that he would certainly say my God make you like even welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life in a whole new light. I'm deliberately excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series. From now on, as presented renewal. The church in North Carolina.

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Everything can change everything can be different from now on. From this moment for we are watching into a new series today finds it rude and the blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh, which I described last weekend which is the substance of the book that I've written this coming out here just a couple weeks and so it's really a life message is something I've been thinking about for over a decade and is part of that blessing. There is an interesting attention given to the names of these two boys that were bless and Manasseh is one of the names of Joseph's two boys. Here's what we read happens when Joseph brings his two sons from the NASA to Joseph's father Jacob as Jacob was nearing his death verse 20 of Genesis 48 so Jacob, bless them that day saying you Israel will pronounce blessings saying God make you as a friend and Manasseh, and that blessing may God make you receive from them. Manasseh has been on the lips of Jewish fathers every sat for 3700. Just think about that. That is certainly the most important family blessing and all of the five it is mandated. It is something that's been spoken over and over every Sabbath, may God make you dizzy from the NASA yet. Who are you from them and why Manasseh, why not Moses and Joshua Elijah and Elisha, Abraham and Isaac.

Famous Bible heroes, and so it's been a big pursuit of mine to learn what is the importance of being like Ephraim and Manasseh, and part of my study is taken me to the fact that means forgotten all my troubles.

What is that Josephus will see today was persecuted terribly went through trouble and trouble is elevated by Pharaoh because of his prophetic gifting and become second in command in Egypt and he begins a program saving up grain during seven years of plenty, so that they will be ready for, prophesied seven years and we read in Genesis 41 verse 50 before the year of famine came two sons were born Joseph and verse 51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn, Manasseh, for he said, God has made me forget all of my hardship and all my father's house. Manasseh means in Hebrew forgotten all line troubles.

Is it possible that we can live our lives like Manasseh you be as Manasseh, meaning as one who has forgotten all your troubles and the answer from the gospel is yes, we are not defined by our past, but we are privileged by the gospel of grace to live from now on talking about that today and for the next shark tank shows like what is the wealthy business errors who listen to people pitch their new inventions and decide whether to invest their own money in the and I find it fascinating and was watching a recording of one social scene named Daniel best ski and he has founded a company called kind. You might recognize these snack bars before healthier snack bars and while watching the show I was really taken by the fact that Betsy share just a little bit of his story as to why he called his company kind. He said that his father was Lithuanian was taken to Nazi concentration camp and was liberated by American soldiers and the kindness of those American soldiers always stuck with them and I looked up the story and found out there was even more to it than that. So when Daniel was nine years old. His father's name was Roman told him the story. Romans time in the concentration camp when Roman was 12 or maybe 13 years old. He was separated from his family.com and there he was nearly starved to death like most of the other Jews had been incarcerated there.

Most of them were killed and he was 12 or 13 and he was skin and bones literally. He was possibly going to die and Roman said that as he was leaning up against the fence. One day Nazi soldier came by Saul the gaunt child who was nearing death in the soldier look to the right look to the left and then through at Roman speed half half nearly rotten potato half of the nearly rotten potato and that adolescent Roman took the morsel and found some nourishment from and live not so much because of that morsel of food because of some sense of hope that it put into his heart and in the midst of such a dark place that there was at least one small act of kindness that Nazi soldier could have been shot 481 of Jewish and Roman told his son Daniel that story when Daniel was nine years old and this is what Daniel Betsy said. He said I have thought about that story that soldiers kindness towards my father in the concentration camp. I thought about that story every day and so I named my company kind. It was acquired in November by the Mars Corporation for $5 billion Daniel Betsy's network is 1.2 billion, but that's neither really here nor there to the story because I want to think about this as I read this I just was just just done by this story because when you think it'd be far more likely that Betsy what he would've thought about for his whole life every day would've been the atrocities committed against the disadvantages that they the persecution that experiences Jews with it. When you think that if he was going to train his brain to think in a certain way that it would been more likely filled with questions like why so many bad things happen to us Jewish people why things happen in my family where my father have to go through that he was going to make a commitment in his heart when you think that it be more likely to commit would be to hurt me like that ever again. But instead what it did in one half of potato at his father's feet and concentration What Daniel Betsy was it made him think about kindness every day and doing something kind for people because that's what life is all about what to say to you today and will talk about this morning.

Coming weeks is because of the growing body of research in neuroscience we are learning what the Bible always calls what is you set your mind on.

You get better at. If you if you remember your phone number easily without hardly thinking about it is because your brain has gone over that number so many times that your brain literally get wired to become good at remembering your own phone and if you spend your time in this world thinking about all your troubles, your brain will get very good at it in a file on your troubles if you spend a lot of time over and over and over, worrying about the future you will become an expert that were in the brain literally wires itself in that direction.

The brain thinks this is what we need to be good at. So let's get this, but if you were to find a way to instead of dwelling upon the troubles of the past. Think about even the smallest act of kindness of the goodness of God, of the grace of God throughout your life.

What happens is your brain literally get wired for it and this is why Paul says when you come to Christ you have an opportunity to hold thinking change that's what repentance me is to change your way of thinking. I know whence is Jesus came he said the message is written for the kingdom of God is at hand to change your mind.

Let your whole brain thinking change and this is why Paul said in Romans 12 are being transform doing my you can have wrong interpretation of your life and will set your life on a destiny that is not God. So everything can change from now will have more teaching from today's series you've heard about it with your years, you believe my experience in the left but never myself love story from beginning to end spiritual bride of Christ, the perfect bike. The Bible tells when you walk with any man or woman sweet love night pretty woman who searched for 2525 Gary Chapman Dr. the five love languages, incredible scenes, as in life comes to myself ancient biblical accounts explode except proposal and showing his embrace raveling after the match made in Rev. my soul right gospel is shared when you get Alan Wright Ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today. We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Alan Wright Ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website past Rowan.like today's teaching now once again is that story what you think about every day and today I want to bless you to be a Manasseh. Someone who is so attentive to the blessings of God. Now in the past. That is if you forgotten all of your troubles and there is no picture in the Bible of a man who did this better than this man named Joseph all of the Bible.

He rose all the great Bible heroes have these gaping flaws that the Bible story about the Bible is real even know was the only righteous person on earth exceed a seed of drunkenness and Abraham was a man of faith and lied and said why Moses tried to resist the call God. David was in adulterer and the list goes on, but shows it to find anything like that about Joseph. Maybe some people said it was a little uppity or something story that way. And here's Joseph story occupies more Genesis than any other patriarchal character. Almost all of Genesis 37 through chapter 50 is about the story of Joseph. Joseph is a man who went through so many troubles and yet have such a mind show you that today and inside to how this all points us to the answer for our lives with us in our mental narratives is that we when we ponder our troubles over and over. Then life feels like it's cumulative is as if all things are mounting and it makes us feel weary. See the thing that makes us weary is we feel like we can't actually start afresh because were carrying the past with us.

One of the theories of depression psychologist call.

Learned helplessness. It was based in some early research that's very cool sounding. They took a dog and put it into a cage and will electrify briefly one side ministry that shot the dog would jump over to the other side of the cage where shop and administer electroshock on that side… And they would keep doing this and I'll learn to draw but then I did something this is so cool they would administer electroshock on this I'd jump over the other side there.

There what they found was that all tried and tried to find a place where it wasn't great in this unpleasant little shop that eventually just gave up and huddled in the quarter of the cage, motionless, and even when they turn off all the shops in the dog to go anywhere in the cage as they huddled in the corner. Learn I'm helpless and I might will give up. This goes along with depression. Is it sometimes life just presents as if I have jumped here. Everywhere I go. And the problem therefore is moment grace is there where it really is possible to move on with depression takes over. Can't move on because of lack of energy. So when I sat on the troubles, the failure to send the regret almost in our minds constantly on that very weary. It feels like it's all cumulative. You say another thing that happens we think about our troubles.

That makes us worry worrying about the future because the more you think about the troubles of the past. The more your mind starts predicting troubles in the future.

So worry is the meditation of all that's gone wrong and how it there be an indication that things will probably still go wrong when and where anxious and worried were insecure and when were insecure. We have our all has to do with being insecure. This is all saying this is why God so wants us to be as NASA as if we don't even remember our troubles. Joseph was also this is the deep part of this is that when we are focused on our troubles and we look back over all of the pain the past and that's where minds are it is to create unconscious falls narratives about our lives and this me.

Beloved is the point of inner healing that we all need and we all needed, at least in some measure some of us needed measure other less but will need this life people from home. We need love and acceptance. Don't give it to us perfectly.

Even the best parent is a good mom and she had a really hard week and she's having a really hard day and she's just clean everything up and little little Susie two-year-old spills the milk onto off the table to the floor and because of two-year-old have the dexterity and but I'm really tired that day.

And so when when Susie spills milk mommy rolls her eyes and I just clean that floor. Let's not ruin mommy clean floor just like that and so was the 20 well to your own brain is very limited and that brain is developing research is now understanding a very fast rate is very plastic is very moldable. Our brains have what is called plasticity that your brain even still is changing and so that's how brainstorm and and when the child spills the mill in herself.

The child doesn't really feel bad about that because it's just spilled milk in a child just doesn't have much dexterity but when the child sees a look of same on her mother's face.

Even a small look of shame or disgust the child goes there's something wrong about what happened that is associated with Maysville and child's brain says essentially what's wrong with me and begins to have the idea that I need to not spill the milk so that I don't lose mommy's love. Now that maybe an exaggerated statement and healthy home safely. What happened is mother then later she claimed that she got that's all right sweetie things happen, but somehow that's not the way goes over and over and over every every day in one way or another. There is the message that you're messing up and see the child doesn't have the capacity to say, well, you know, hard week and she's a lot of stressors in her life right now and actually I don't have the manual dexterity to prevent the spilling of milk, so this is not about my issues. It's about hers. I'm sure she'll work it out with her therapist later. That's another way to your opening trying to think that way something wrong. What I'm saying is that simple illustration is that you see how we can associate wrong beliefs with memories of our lives, and therefore inner healing is needed because most of us in one way or another are not interpreting our narrative properly.

The fact of the matter is, no matter what you've been through in life or how much rejection that you have experience that God wants you to know that you are infinitely love is always been with you.

And so, somehow, there has to be a way in which we experience the healing ministry of the Holy Spirit as regards our memories that lead to wrong narratives of Helen Wright that is good news message from the series. From now on, and pastor alum is back with us in the studio shearing reporting good news thought for the day you heard about it with you believed my experience in the left but never solved the problem is a love story from beginning to spiritual bride of Christ, the perfect bike. The Bible tells him to walk with her anymore and it's gonna mother the woman tasted the sweet love despite pretty woman who searched for 255 what can only be found fully by Dr. the five love languages incredible perceives us in life comes to F myself ancient biblical accounts explode in the hot except nice proposal and showing his embrace raveling after the match made in heaven. It's lover of my soul right gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today.

We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Alan Wright Ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastoralan.org with Pastor Alan in the studio. From now on is this new series in the past. Rather, what is reporting good news thought what would be like if you could, in the words the from an ass of us and be like Manasseh, whose name means forgotten all my troubles that's what happens when we bless one another. When we receive God's blessing. What happened is instead of dragging the past with you all the time.

You could live from no say what would happen.

Liberty, joy, destiny, all of that will be unveiled God once that is what you anyway drug down by the condemning voices that tell you that you had too many failures too much trauma too much trouble. It's part of the meaning and message of the new book just come out that you could be like Manasseh means forgotten all my troubles and were blessing that you could live from now on.

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