2023-06-20
What God Already Gave: Forgiveness
Forgiveness that forgets. When the sins God already forgave haunt you, remember. He forgot.
Read more..Forgiveness that forgets. When the sins God already forgave haunt you, remember. He forgot.
Read more..After listening to someone share how they blew it by losing their patience over a very small matter when their sincere intention was to keep calm in a disagreeable situation, I was reminded how recently a similar thing had happened to me.
Read more..Anger is a powerful emotion that often causes damage, but it can also be righteous. The Lord also expects us to learn to control our anger so it’s appropriate and doesn’t cause us to sin.
Read more..Are you burdened by your past? By pouring out your heart to God, you can find peace and freedom.
Read more..Do you carry a load of guilt? So many do. If our spiritual baggage were visible, do you know what you would see? Suitcases of guilt, bulging with binges, blowups, and compromises. The kid with the baggy jeans and the nose ring? He’d give anything to retract the words he said to his mother.
Read more..“Who is a God like you, who pardons…. and forgives…and delights to show mercy.” Micah 7:18 & 19 The book of Micah calls us to be on guard and keep bent toward God in a posture of willingness to let Him deliver us from the rebellion of our hearts.
Read more..I didn’t want to forgive them. They’d emotionally abused me for a long time, and it felt like a bone bruise
Read more..Ask yourself, are refusing to forgive someone? If so, pray that God would soften your heart and empower you to forgive them just as Christ forgave you, and then thank him that the Holy Spirit does just that.
Read more..God does not tally our blunders in his logbook or entangle us in shame. He encourages us, offers a new beginning, and promises to remember our sins no more, always taking an interest in the vocation he calls us to fulfill.
Read more..In anger, someone who chose to abandon Christianity - someone I love — said to me, “Who needs all that guilt?!”
Read more..Anger is often a masking emotion. It usually masks fear, disappointment or any number of other emotions.
Read more..Do you feel nudged to forgive people who have hurt you? Or do you want to nurse your ego by not forgiving?
Read more..Freedom of Forgiveness: The church is full of sinners. Christ longs to show compassion toward us all. “So there is now no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus”
Read more..I always thought I was free. I thought I understood the concept of grace. Did I really understand the freedom grace brings? Clearly not.
Read more..Every moment of your life your accuser is filing charges against you. He has noticed every error and marked each slip … Try to forget your past; he’ll remind you. Try to undo your mistakes; he will thwart you.
Read more..Christian friend, when we first believed, we had a clear view of our sins and the absolute forgiveness God granted to us. As far as the east is from the west, so far had he removed our sins from us.
Read more..Hanging on to bitterness and keeping alive grudges is consuming work. It leaves little energy for blessing others, praising God, or enjoying life.
Read more..Sometimes God uses the most unlikely persons to teach us a lesson. Jesus showed us that forgiveness has a cross in it. It costs us something. But un-forgiveness has an even greater price: It makes prisoners out of us.
Read more..“Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Mathew 11:28)
Read more..Someone once said, “If you believe one-tenth of what you say you believe you should be ten times more excited than you are.” And I ask myself the question: Where and why do we fall short?
Read more..Be free to be the person God wants you to be. Dear Jesus, take over my heart so that I will see people as you see them and forgive them as you forgive them.
Read more..When it comes to forgiveness, all of us are beginners. No one owns a secret formula. As long as you are trying to forgive, you are forgiving.
Read more..Forgiveness! What a sweet and precious gift. What we were powerless to fix, make up or pay for, God did for us in Jesus.
Read more..Bitterness is its own prison. you can choose, like some to put away your hurts before they become hates.
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