[Acts 9:1-2] Meanwhile, Saul was uttering threats with every breath and was eager to kill the Lord’s followers. So he went to the high priest. [2] He requested letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, asking for their cooperation in the arrest of any followers of the Way he found there. He wanted to bring them—both men and women—back to Jerusalem in chains.

God gets the glory when he uses people with a ________________ past.

[Philippians 3:12-14] I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. [13] No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, [14] I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

The longer I run this race, the further I will get from my _________, and the closer I will get to the _________.

There's a big difference between ________________ your past and ________________ your past.

We break the ________________ of the past by living for the ________________.

[Psalms 103:12] He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.

God wants us to ________________ our past, not be consumed by it.

[Isaiah 43:18-19] “Do not remember the past events, pay no attention to things of old [19] Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.

Don't let your ________________ keep you from living the life God has for you!

Your past does not ________________ who you are, your future does.