God Saves The Very Best For You. You are An Heir To A Heavenly Kingdom
Today's sermon blessed me because it teaches that if you're too busy building monuments to your past you won't have to time to build for your future. I don't know what you're going through right now, but I do hope that you have your eyes firmly fixed on your future. The enemy wants you to be so consumed by your pain that don't prepare a way into your promise. But you can declare that today is the day to start building for my future.
I used to let the pain of my past consume my whole life. Until one day the Holy Spirit said, "ROHO, it's time to stop crying and start moving forward." From that point on I began building ROHO and I've spent my life trying to spread the Gospel message. I decided to invest in a better future and lives have been blessed through ROHO. I hope that you've been blessed as well. ROHO is here for you. The gift God has given to you will help to transform lives and change the world.
Scripture for Meditation
Philippians 3:13-14 (KJV): "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
Beloved, Paul didn't deny his past—he was a persecutor of the church. But he made a conscious choice to stop rehearsing that pain and started running toward his purpose. Your yesterday doesn't have veto power over your tomorrow. The grave of your past is not your final address.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV): "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new."
Family, this isn't wishful thinking—it's kingdom reality. When you surrender your life to Christ, He doesn't patch you up; He makes you entirely new. The pain that tried to define you has no claim on your identity anymore. You are not what happened to you; you are who God says you are.
Isaiah 43:18-19 (KJV): "Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?"
God Himself is telling you to release what's behind. He's not dismissing your suffering—He's inviting you to witness what He wants to build through your healing. Your future holds blessings your past couldn't contain.
Walking It Out
Write down one monument you've been building to your past—a story you keep telling, a wound you revisit, a failure you rehearse. Name it. Then, on that same page, write one specific step toward your future: a skill to develop, a relationship to invest in, or a dream to pursue. This week, do that one step.
Tell someone your future-focused vision, not your past pain. When you're tempted to explain yourself through your hurt, redirect that energy. Share what God is building in you instead. Words shape reality; speak your promise into existence.
Set a daily trigger. Every morning this week, when you wake up, declare aloud: "Today I am building my future, not my past." Let that become your new monument—a monument to God's faithfulness moving forward.
A Prayer for You
Holy Father, I come before You today, laying down every pain, every failure, every wound that has tried to define me. I thank You that in Christ, I am not my history—I am Your new creation. Give me the courage to stop looking backward and the vision to see clearly where You're leading me. Help me to invest my energy, my time, and my faith into the future You have promised, knowing that the best is yet to come. I declare that I am an heir to Your heavenly kingdom, and today marks the beginning of my building season. In Jesus' name, Amen.
About the Author
Rev. Nicholas S. Richards is an ordained minister, author of Destiny DNA, and founder of ROHO. For over 11 years, he has written more than 6,000 daily devotionals reaching believers worldwide. Learn more about Rev. Richards.