"...Bound to Repeat It."

"Those who don't know history are destined (bound) to repeat it." Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

What is not often shown in a project plan or schedule is where you have been. Focus tends to land solely on where you currently are and where you are going. There is usually little to no consideration of what has already transpired. I would suggest that it is imperative to consider and examine just how the past has affected your current placement. It seems that when we disregard or quickly discard any past missteps and/or victories we often set ourselves up for the possibility of a two-fold problem. We will either hop right back on the cycle of failure, which mirrors past shortcomings, or forget how we once obtained success, lose momentum by being uninformed, and wind up with a negative result. 

Experience has proven to me that the person with the best notes in the room has the most power. There is something innate in those who have found success in almost every field; they don't repeat past mistakes and they identify the formula, method and/or thought-processes that garnered success. Those items are documented and mastered as they move forward to greater conquests. 

As believers we have a great collection of historical "notes" contained in scripture. If we do not study the successes, promises, as well as the failures of others we are doomed to repeat them. Maturity and great success for me has become doing the seemingly elementary things consistently. In your own quiet time examine some of your great triumphs and defeats of the last few months and ask the Lord to help you identify areas that you should maintain, show you where you went wrong in the past and how to abandon those things moving forward.

 ^"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does." James 1:22-25

Violent Shaking

Haggai 2:5-7 KJV

"According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts."

As we get to a place of intimacy and fellowship with the Lord, it is impossible not to experience what Paul describes as the exceeding greatness of His dunamis power.(Ephesians 1:19)  Intimacy and true fellowship with God, comes with prayer and a lifestyle of worship and obedience to God.  The violent shaking from God although uncomfortable,  will eradicate issues, flush blockages/hindrances, diffuse pain and loose chains in our lives. When we experience these times of Divine shaking, it is imperative to find good footing in the Word of God and allow Him to violently shake some things loose in your life.(Luke 6:48) The violent shaking of God will break up the hard places in our hearts and minds and certainly will bring life to the dead dreams, treasures, and gifts inside of you!

Nahum 1:7

The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him."

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