You Can’t Move Forward If You Keep Looking Back: Christine Caine & I Am They
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🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It’s often been said that we shouldn’t live in the past, but sometimes, inevitably, our past mistakes can haunt us. Regret over decisions made, things we’ve said and done that impacted others negatively, or opportunities missed. But God calls us to a different reality—one that is based on the present with Him and the promise for a future that He lovingly prescribes. Our guests this week have all had events in their past that haven’t been easy to overcome. But each of them took a step forward, a step toward God, and stepped away from having their past define them. We’re talking to author and speaker Christine Caine and the members of the popular worship band I Am They—Matt Hein, Justin Shinn, and Abbie Parker.
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Interview Quotes:
“There are a lot of things in my life that, you know, it would seem naturally speaking, should have stopped me from fulfilling my purpose and destiny. But Jesus being the amazing God that He is, He not only saved me and healed me and restored me, but He used those broken fragments of my past to not only give me a future, but to help me give other people a future.” - Christine Caine
“You are never too far gone for God not to be able to bring you back.” - Christine Caine
“I have found in my life that prayer moves God, and when God is moved, God can move mountains.” - Christine Caine
“I think that if we could trust the character and the nature and the goodness of God, we will get to the other side and find that our God was in control the whole time. I love that about God.” - Christine Caine
“I went into an eighteen month drug court program, so I was doing outpatient rehab, I was doing counseling, all that stuff. But what really made the biggest difference in keeping me clean was getting back involved with my church.” - Justin Shinn
“When you disappoint yourself, it can be really hard to believe that anyone else would not be disappointed in you, so that was a lesson that took a long time to relearn.” - Abbie Parker
“We sort of flipped the narrative that shame would have cast in our lives and decided this is no longer going to be a shameful narrative. This is going to be a story of God's grace and forgiveness and goodness and redemption in our lives.” - Abbie Parker
“It was just something that became the hidden addiction. And I never drank and I never got into drugs and that kind of thing, but [pornography] was kind of the thing that I could hide that was slowly but surely, in the same ways, eating me up from the inside.” - Matt Hein
“[Sitting in my pastor’s office confessing my addiction] was the moment that I found and I realized Grace and who Grace was and what Grace was capable of.” - Matt Hein
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| 0:00.9 | Sometimes a very big reason that we drift is because we just keep rehearsing the past, |
| 0:07.1 | our past mistakes, our past disappointments, our past failures, our past hurt, our past rejection, |
| 0:14.3 | our past betrayal. And we end up getting on this treadmill and we obsessively ruminate. |
| 0:21.2 | And you know, you cannot move forward if all you do is keep looking back. |
| 0:26.1 | There comes a time where we need to place our past at the foot of the cross of Jesus |
| 0:32.3 | and allow it to stay there and put it all on him because he has bore our guilt and our shame |
| 0:39.8 | and our pain and our suffering. Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. |
| 0:46.4 | It's often been said that we shouldn't live in the past but sometimes inevitably our past mistakes |
| 0:51.6 | can haunt us. Regret over decisions made, things we've said and done that impacted others negatively |
| 0:57.9 | or opportunities missed. But God calls us to a different reality, one that's based on being in |
| 1:03.8 | the present with Him and the promise for a future that He lovingly prescribes. |
| 1:13.0 | Our guests this week have all had events in their pasts that haven't been easy to overcome, |
| 1:18.0 | but each of them took a step forward, a step toward God and stepped away from having their past |
| 1:24.4 | to find them. We're talking to author and speaker Christine Kane and the members of the |
| 1:29.1 | popular worship band I am they Matt Hine Justin Shin and Abby Parker. We'll start with some |
| 1:35.4 | encouragement from Christine Kane about leaving our past behind us. You know, I grew up in Sydney, |
| 1:42.7 | Australia and I've got to say Sydney is one of the most beautiful cities on planet Earth. |
| 1:48.0 | The daughter of Greek immigrants and so I grew up speaking Greek as my mother tongue and I didn't |
| 1:55.0 | really learn English until I was five. You know, I've found that the Lord always uses all of the |
| 2:03.6 | elements of our life to help direct us into what He has called us to do. I also found out when |
| 2:10.8 | I was 33 years old that I was left in a hospital unnamed and unwanted when I was born. In fact, |
| 2:16.4 | my birth certificate doesn't have a name on it. It just simply says child's name unnamed |
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