Tag: Christ forgives

“Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.”

2 Corinthians 2:7

Before Christ went to the cross, He resounded the importance of forgiveness all through His ministry – this was His purpose so He knew best how important forgiveness was. I mean, it was important enough for Him to lay His life for it, so how can we fail to see how important it is to forgive?

So, what was it? what is it? what was done to you? what was said about you? what was that offense that has struck the cord of unforgiveness for so long?

Friend, It is time to uncover that wound that you’ve buried under anger. Please, I urge you to look your pain in the eyes and tell it that the time has come for you two to part. God wants to restore and renew you! Tell that hurt that it can no longer stay in your heart because it has built an haven for unforgiveness.

I know it is difficult to consider releasing the anger that you have carried with you for so long. Far as you know, you are convinced that it is actually a part of you because the voices of the enemy has told you over and over that you are your pain.

But consider this, how heavy has the weight of unforgiveness been on your shoulders?

How long have you dragged unforgiveness along in your life’s journey?

Have you carried your unforgiveness in and out of work? in and out of relationships? in and out of business deals? in and out of friendships? in and out of churches? in and out of alliances? in and out of your home?

Ask yourself, how far as unforgiveness taken you on your path to purpose? And how much farther has it drifted you away from the path of purpose?

Where is the unforgiveness in your life? Point it out! Lord knows that you have carried it long enough!

Christ says to come to Him in your weariness and pain. Friend, I urge you not to stay away. Stop suffering in unforgiveness.

Unforgiveness has cost you more than you will ever be willingly admit. Think of the time, joy, and peace that unforgiveness has stolen away from you. Think of the life that unforgiveness has attempted to rob you of. But we serve a God of restoration!

God will give you beauty for the ashes. HE will give you tenfold of all that you thought you lost. But you have to make room for God to clean up house first. And it begins with you changing your mind about unforgiveness. God is love. HE will bless that very place of suffering and pain that hate threatened to keep you in. God will comfort you. I am saying this because I know first hand just how God wraps you in HIS loving arms to bring you comfort and to reassure you that it is exactly where you always need to be.

Yes, it has been a long rough road. But you are not alone. The Spirit says you will no longer carry this heavy load of unforgiveness. You will lay it down and be freed from the chains of unforgiveness in Jesus name!

May our Sovereign God heal our broken hearts and grant us the will to change our hearts and minds forever about unforgiveness in Jesus name. Amen.

“Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance with someone…”

Colossians 3:13

No one is born with anger. But anger is brewed from the earliest of times. Beneath anger is un-forgiveness. Underneath un-forgiveness is an unspoken pain and hurt. This is what I have come to learn in my wiser years.

There are so many angry people in this world, anger controlling so many people. Some know it and some are not the least bit aware. But as we know, there is a danger to anger. It blinds you and causes you to sin because it disobeys the Spirit.

Where there is anger, there is disobedience. But that is not what this post is about, because also where there is anger, there is much suffering. I wonder today if you or anyone you know is suffering in un-forgiveness.

I wonder if an inability to forgive someone or something has become a stronghold in your life and has caused you to further damage more than you can imagine in your path of purpose.

This week especially reminds us how heavy the burden of un-forgiveness was. Christ literally carried the cross of our unforgiveness and put it to death when He died for you and me to be forgiven and reconciled with our heavenly Father.

So how come we, the ones who Christ sacrificed His life for to be forgiven, cannot find our way to forgive those that have wronged us?

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What is the excuse you’ve been holding on to that has made unforgiveness worthy in your eyes?

Do you not realize that the seed of unforgiveness is the same seed that grows anger, malice, hate, discontent, distrust and disobedience against God Almighty?

Are you not aware that the blessings that your hands touch become polluted by the unforgiveness that courses through you?

Why won’t you forgive? Why? What is so significant about this thing or what this person did, that won’t let you release hate and embrace God’s love and restoration? Friend, why do you continue to suffer in unforgiveness?! FINISH READING HERE