LOOKING STRAIGHT AHEAD 8-29-25 VIDEO FORGET THE PAST LOOK
No, looking back to the past. There’s more to see ahead of you. His path his road leads to life.
Prov 4:25 Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions.
26 Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you.
27 Look neither right nor left; leave evil in the dust. MSG
Phil 3:13 Friends, don’t get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I’ve got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward — to Jesus.
14 I’m off and running, and I’m not turning back.
15 So let’s keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision — you’ll see it yet!
16 Now that we’re on the right track, let’s stay on it. MSG
PHIL 3:13 I don’t depend on my own strength to accomplish this; however I do have one compelling focus: I forget all of the past as I fasten my heart to the future instead.
14 I run straight for the divine invitation of reaching the heavenly goal and gaining the victory-prize through the anointing of Jesus.
15 So let all who are fully mature have this same passion, and if anyone is not yet gripped by these desires, God will reveal it to them.
16 And let us all advance together to reach this victory-prize, following one path with one passion. TPT
LUKE 9:59 He said to another person, “Why don’t you accompany me!” The man responded, “I will eventually once I no longer need to take care of my father and after I’ve buried him.”
60 “Your mission is to awaken people out of their spiritual slumber with the good news, not to bury them! There will be enough others to bury the dead.”
61 Another candidate said, “I will first have to manage my responsibilities at home.”
62 Jesus replied, “Once you’ve engaged the oxen and the plough, then your focus on the line of the furrow does not allow any distraction! MIRROR
Gen 19:17 When they had them outside, Lot was told, “Now run for your life! Don’t look back! Don’t stop anywhere on the plain — run for the hills or you’ll be swept away.” MSG
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Gen 19:26 But Lot’s wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt. MSG
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Luke 17:32 Remember what happened to Lot’s wife!
33 If you grasp and cling to life on your terms, you’ll lose it, but if you let that life go, you’ll get life on God’s terms. MSG
ISA 43:18 “Stop dwelling on the past. Don’t even remember these former things.
19 I am doing something brand new, something unheard of. Even now it sprouts and grows and matures. Don’t you perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and open up flowing streams in the desert. TPT
Eccl 7:10 Don’t always be asking, “Where are the good old days?” Wise folks don’t ask questions like that. MSG
Deut 2:3 “You’ve been going around in circles in these hills long enough; go north.
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ISA 42:16 I will walk the blind by an unknown way and guide them on paths they’ve never traveled. I will smooth their difficult road and make their dark mysteries bright with light. These are things I will do for them, for I will never abandon my beloved ones. TPT
ISA 30:21 When you turn to the right or turn to the left, you will hear his voice behind you to guide you, saying, “This is the right path; follow it.” TPT
Isa 58:11 I will always show you where to go. I’ll give you a full life in the emptiest of places — firm muscles, strong bones. You’ll be like a well-watered garden, a gurgling spring that never runs dry.
12 You’ll use the old rubble of past lives to build anew, rebuild the foundations from out of your past. You’ll be known as those who can fix anything, restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate, make the community livable again. MSG
ZECH 4:6 Here is the message of Yahweh to Zerubbabel: “You will not succeed by military might nor by your own strength but by my Spirit,” says Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies.
7 “And what are you, O mighty mountain? Before you, Zerubbabel, this mountain of obstacles will crumble. Then he will set the capstone in place to shouts of ‘Grace and beauty be upon it!’ ” TPT
Rom 12:1 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life — and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.
2 Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. MSG
Prov 3:5 Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own.
6 Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track. MSG
Ps 32:8 I [the Lord] will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you. AMP
Heb 10:38 But the just shall live by faith [My righteous servant shall live by his conviction respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, and holy fervor born of faith and conjoined with it]; and if he draws back and shrinks in fear, My soul has no delight or pleasure in him.
39 But our way is not that of those who draw back to eternal misery (perdition) and are utterly destroyed, but we are of those who believe [who cleave to and trust in and rely on God through Jesus Christ, the Messiah] and by faith preserve the soul. AMP
Heb 11:15 If they had been thinking with [homesick] remembrance of that country from which they were emigrants, they would have found constant opportunity to return to it. AMP
Rom 4:19 Abraham didn’t focus on his own impotence and say, “It’s hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child.” Nor did he survey Sarah’s decades of infertility and give up. MSG
Ps 18:30 What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God-direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward him Makes it. MSG
Ps 143:9 If you wake me each morning with the sound of your loving voice, I’ll go to sleep each night trusting in you. Point out the road I must travel; I’m all ears, all eyes before you. MSG
PS 123:1 O God-Enthroned in heaven, I lift my eyes toward you in worship.
2 The way I love you is like the way a servant wants to please his master, the way a maid waits for the orders of her mistress. We look to you, our God, with passionate longing to please you and discover more of your mercy and grace. TPT
Luke 21:28 Now when these things begin to occur, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption (deliverance) is drawing near.
Heb 11:20 [With eyes of] faith Isaac, looking far into the future, invoked blessings upon Jacob and Esau
2 Cor 4:18 Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.
2 Cor 5:7 For we walk by faith [we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor; thus we walk] not by sight or appearance.