BEARING THE BURDENS OF YESTERDAY’S FAILURES [ADAM]
Do you know this guy? ADAM. Of course you do. Who doesn’t?
The first man. The first guy who conversed regularly with God and ooops! The first SINNER. So many firsts, but of all he is most popular for his fall.
There was only one thing Adam could have done wrong and God made sure he had all it took not to do it. Eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden. God made him in his image, after his likeness, gave him HIS BREATHE, gave him an helper [Eve] yet he botched it, So much hung in the balance, LIFE for all or DEATH for all. Adam chose death.
Now enough of that! You already know all that but what most of us don’t give second thoughts to is the other part of the story. How did Adam bear the burdens of his past mistakes, how did he live his life after he had fallen.
Adam, in my own opinion, was one of the greatest men in the bible, I mean in “the same League” with Abraham, Moses, Elijah and the likes. You may be wondering:”what is this guy talking about, a man that messed up that badly, through whom death and sin entered the world, how can that be?” Let me explain.
For hundreds of years Adam watched the world go bad, I mean really ugly, yet he took a stand for God. The only thing he did wrong was the Sin in the Garden but Adam did not let that stop him, after being chased out of the Garden for disobeying God, He still stayed in close contact with God. “Where did I get that from?”
He taught Cain and Abel make sacrifices to the Lord. He raised Seth as a man committed to righteousness. Yeah! Though Adam messed up in the Garden and got kicked out, he didn’t spend all his 930 years brooding over yesterday’s mistakes, he pressed on. How did you think it must have felt to watch “Cain kill Abel”; “The world slip into moral and spiritual decadence.” But Adam handled everything wonderfully, He didn’t break down, he broke through.
Against all odds Adam stood firm to the very end, he didn’t say since he had been kicked out of the Garden, he could as well live anyhow, he didn’t break down, he broke through.
Are you feeling like you’ve messed up badly in the past like Adam did or are things presently spiraling way out of control due certain wrong choices you’ve made. Do not let yesterday’s failures or today’s shortcomings cripple you, don’t break down, break through. God expects you to move forward and break through against all odds. He doesn’t expect you to bear the burden of yesterday’s failures/mistakes/sins etc He can do that for you in fact he says come unto me all ye that are heavy laden I will give you rest.
“Cast your burdens unto God for he cares for you”
No matter how badly you may have messed up, God is still with you. Though Adam and Eve were judged for their disobedience, God still clothed them. That doesn’t mean you are to keep messing up, it means you are to do like Adam did, stay connected and trust God for the best; you’ll definitely rise above all unfavourable odds.
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Isaiah 9:6 NLT
6 For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. And the government will rest on his shoulders. These will be his royal titles: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.


Isaiah 9:6 KJV
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
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Isaiah 10:27 NLT
In that day the Lord will end the bondage of his people. He will break the yoke of slavery and lift it from their shoulders.

Isaiah 10:27 KJV
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
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Psalms 24 NLT
1 The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him.
2 For he laid the earth's foundation on the seas and built it on the ocean depths.
3 Who may climb the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place?
4 Only those whose hands and hearts are pure, who do not worship idols and never tell lies.
5 They will receive the Lord's blessing and have right standing with God their savior.
6 They alone may enter God's presence and worship the God of Israel. Interlude
7 Open up, ancient gates! Open up, ancient doors, and let the King of glory enter.
8 Who is the King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, invincible in battle.
9 Open up, ancient gates! Open up, ancient doors, and let the King of glory enter.
10 Who is the King of glory? The Lord Almighty- he is the King of glory. Interlude

Psalms 24
1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
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Roman 8:26-34 NLT

And the Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.
27 And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will.
28 And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn, with many brothers and sisters.
30 And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And he gave them right standing with himself, and he promised them his glory.
31 What can we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
32 Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?
33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? Will God? No! He is the one who has given us right standing with himself.
34 Who then will condemn us? Will Christ Jesus? No, for he is the one who died for us and was raised to life for us and is sitting at the place of highest honor next to God, pleading for us.

Roman 8:26-34 KJV

26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.