forgive – My Grace Untold

Are You Suffering In Unforgiveness? Part 2

“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.

Are You Suffering In Unforgiveness? Part 1

“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?

MORE ABOUT THE SACRED F-WORD

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

The Sacred F-Word (II)

“To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness.”

Acts 26:18

So many hearts remain lost, cold, and unaware of God’s love and fullness simply because they will not forgive.

However, we often forget the guilty hearts overwhelmed with sorrow and shame because they are yet be forgiven by those they wronged.

Repentance is for all and none, no one is beyond redemption. Please remember that.

Could it be that the enemy took heed of God’s clear instruction even more than we did? Could it be that the enemy wages war against us in this most simple yet consequential manner because it keeps us from receiving our much-needed forgiveness from our Father?

The Word not only tells us we can forgive, it mandates us to forgive. I mean it says it right there that our sins are forgiven as we forgive those who have wronged us. No compromises.

It’s no coincidence that forgiveness is such a battle for most of us. It is no ordinary thing that forgiving hurts even more than what we are trying to forgive in the first place. Only God knows why we feel such strong forces within our hearts as we walk towards forgiveness.

Until recently when God delivered a personal miracle to me in the form of forgiveness, I could never speak on that sacred F-Word because I know we all have our own ways of coping with pain, hurt, and discomfort that we hold others responsible for.

I know now that those forces we inwardly feel, are chains of the enemy breaking loose as we move even closer to the freedom of glorifying God because of our own forgiveness.

The enemy may think he has succeeded in convincing many of God’s children that they cannot and should not forgive. But remember dear friend that the devil is a liar!

To each his own. That’s why forgiveness is usually a long road we must walk alone. You have to understand the full gravity of forgiveness and why it resonated through the life of Christ our Lord. Jesus was our forgiveness. So, forgiveness is no small feat. It is a great deal for us as followers of Christ.

Child of God, it is time to forgive and be forgiven.

Glory be to God for the spiritual discernment to see that not forgiving others is no more than another form of disobedience to our merciful God.

My prayer today, is that God almighty grants us the boldness to trample the lies of the enemy and cling on to forgiveness of our sins as we forgive those who have wronged us. May the fullness of God’s grace and mercy be evident in your life as you walk towards forgiveness today in Jesus name. Amen.

The Sacred F-Word (I)

“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive your trespasses. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”

Matthew 6:14-15

Forgiveness.

There it is, clear and as direct as can be. Yet, forgiveness is one of the hardest and longest journeys of the mortal man.

If you take a few moments right now, much like me recently, I am sure you can come up with more than a few people or things that you are yet to forgive. Ask yourself why not and try to align it with the voice of God in you.

I know. It is impossible. Because forgiveness is indeed all that God is.

We often convince ourselves that we have forgiven or have tried our best to forgive or sometimes tell ourselves that we have ‘forgiven’ but we are not allowed to forget out of practicality. You know the sayings,

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.” Or “If someone shows you who they are the first time, believe them (meaning that in the context of people messing up with us of course).” Lets not forget, “I don’t give people too many chances.” Or “You only get to play me once.”

The list could go on with these mantras that is against genuine, compassionate forgiveness.

And no, “letting people go,” (as in kicking them out of your life out of un-forgiveness) is not the same as forgiving them out of love, then separating yourself from them according to the voice of God’s spirit in you.

Malice is not forgiveness. Passive aggression is not forgiveness. Never bringing up the matter is not forgiveness. Reminding yourself or the person their past wrongs towards you is not forgiveness.

Lord help us. CONTINUE READING HERE.