Yeah, About That Forgiveness Thing
I’m struggling.
Bad.
I’m struggling with forgiveness. It’s coming up on a year since some people hurt me. They hurt me bad. They hurt my family. They hurt us.
Bad.
Every time I think I’m doing better, I run into one of them. I see them on the road. I have to walk past them at the fireworks show.
I’m struggling with the thoughts that run through my mind. I think about how I would react if I they came up to me and spoke. I imagine the conversation. Sometimes I simply walk away. Too often, my imagination isn’t pretty.
Here’s the thing.
I need to forgive them. I need to move on. I need to do what God has done with me.
Forgiven. Loved.
Maybe this is the first step. Publicly admitting my struggle. Asking you to pray along with me that through the power, fruit and Spirit from God that I will defeat this.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Do you have anything in particular that you struggle with? How can I pray for you?
I thought this sounded familiar Larry. Not sure if I commented back then but will now. Forgiveness is a funny thing. I hear that I will not be forgiven if I don’t. Then I remember Jesus’ words and Paul’s words of nothing can separate me from the love of Christ. Forgiveness is a tougher issue for some than others. There is a man who said some really harsh things about me and even said I should leave. The other leaders disagreed and for a while I struggled. Now I pity him.He is missing out on so much. It is not easy though so I will pray for you and visa versa.
Thanks Bill!!!
That is a lot of hurt to be carrying around in your heart over something that when you compare it with God’s love is so minuscule. It has the tendancy to over shadow God’s love. Joy is the echo of God’s life within us. Turn it over to God and forget it.
I will be praying for you and the family.
Walk daily with God at your side!
Your brother in Christ,
Ed
I don’t disagree with you. I would have loved to have just dropped it like it was hot. I think part of it is just wanting to. And I may be about there.
i’ve had my share of stuggles with the church i’m been a part of all my life…But in the end…The Lord has always removed the thorns in the a time of harvest.
My Church didn’t allow my Pastor to marry my wife and I (who also married my parents too)
Because supposedly where were involved in some kind of Gossip triangle. Sooo Stupid…but it was something my wife has never really gotten over…i think…
it’s tough….we still go to that church…we are a family….and like all families…sometimes we fight…but it is a Church that i strongly believe Christ rose up for himself and for us and my family…
I love it there…
but from time to time…those memorize arise and we just try to shake them off…
I understand, Arny. Forgiveness isn’t easy…but it is necessary, says the guy struggling with it.
i struggle with forgiveness as well, and one thing i realized is that when God Tells me to forgive, that by obeying Him, it is no longer about me, but about Him. Remind yourself that you love God enough to obey His Word (as hard as it can be at times) to forgive which puts the focus back on Him and off of you. Taking the high road means looking up toward His Kingdom and not emotionally pouting looking down below. Also, assure yourself that your offenders didn’t know any better, meaning that if they did, they would have treated you the way that way they wanted to be treated (doing what God Says). When Jesus and Stephen were both being killed, they asked God To Forgive their perpetrators because they were not aware of what they were doing right before they inherited the Kingdom. This is a lesson i learned through a very painful divorce. Keep praying that they will mature in Christ as well.
That is a great point — they didn’t know better.
I pray in the holy and precious name of Jesus; heavenly Father we come before you in agreement that the seeds of resentment and bitterness be uprooted at once, that they no longer have authority over Larry’s mind; we cast them out and bind them in Jesus’s name. Lord we arrest every demonic presence in his life, every principality of darkness, every demon in bell, every plot and conspiracy and generational curse is hereby bound and sent immediately to the foot of the cross. We apply the blood of Jesus over his life and his family, his heart and his mind, his spirit is renewed and made perfect and whole as your ultimate sacrifice so completely afforded him. Father we loose ministering angels to guard his every move, to comfort and protect him and his loved ones as he rises from the ashes and is made a new man. This is a new thing you are doing Father God! We see it, and we boldly stand up in the mighty presence of the King of Kings to stake claim to Larry’s RELEASE from the throws of anger. Lord we stand on the word of God as we agree together by the stripes of Jesus and by the power of the HOLY SPIRIT for complete and total, once-and-for-all, FINAL & LASTING FORGIVENESS. As we speak, the spirit of forgiveness is overcoming him. The essence of forgiveness dwells within him. The embodiment of forgiveness fills him and makes him whole as quickly as the air he breathes. We stand before you in humbled awe and holy reverence. We praise you for this good work you are so quick to complete in him!!! We love you, we thank you, and we agree that it is done; in the name of Jesus and by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen!!!