9 JANUARY 2018 BODY OF CHRIST NEWS Pentecostal Assembly”. You already know. There are so many. Just the name of the ministry will show you. If you are the type that can really, really guess, you will know. One guy said, “The Only Truth Church.” I said, “Wow.” In other words, he believes that where he is coming from they are not telling the truth. When we started here, what moved us was missions. The Lord told us, “It must be a church where all hands are on missions.” So, we started with “Hands On World Missions”, not “I will show them such”. “They Shall See Biblical Church”. Haven’t you seen something like that? I’m trying to avoid names, but sometimes you know just by the name. Why? Because hurt distorts all of our decisions, and hurt distorts our view of everything in life. When you are hurting, you don’t see things the way you should be seeing them. You see it from the eyes of the hurt. When you maintain this hurt in your life, and you don’t deal with it, it causes you to become bitter, and it will stop you from acceleration. A man or a woman that is bitter cannot enjoy divine accelera- tion. It can sometimes even stop you from moving forward. You will see yourself paralyzed, and you will con- tinue to wonder, “Why can’t I move forward? What is going on?” Well, you are tied to the person who hurt you. Something that happened ten years ago is still paralyzing you because you are carrying hurt in your life. You cannot get past your past; therefore your future is stalled. Listen, God will always give us opportunity to get out of hurt, but it’s still my decision whether I will get out of hurt or if I will hold on to such hurts. Let me remind you that some of us may have to think again about some of the people we hang out with. You’ve got to stop finding your point of reference from your past. The Bible says that old things have passed away. Always remember that the pit that God took you out of when He put your feet upon the rock is not the pit that you should go back into. Dwelling on the negative of the past makes it difficult for you to have a proper perspective on how the Lord has been blessing you. And all you continue to remember and all you continue to do is to whine and com- plain about how they don’t like you. Why don’t you just use that time to do something positive? Why don’t you just use that time to do something more creative? Why don’t you just use that time to praise God, if you don’t know what to do? HURT ... from page 8