Saturday, March 10, 2012

How Do You Forgive?


We are commanded by God to forgive others as He has forgiven us! But that human side of us does not want to! So how do we get past the hurt that others inflict on us? How can we trust again? We are humbly driven to God’s word for the supernatural ability to forgive! You cannot do it on your own!
Be humbled:
Deut.8:3  And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
Deut.8: 5 Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.
Deut.10: 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn
Love sinners:
Mark 12: 33 And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
Forgive as Christ does:
Matt.6:9-15 
9 Pray then like this: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 
10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 
11 Give us this day our daily bread, 
12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 
14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you
15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Mark 11: 25 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."
Ephesians 4:31-32 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Eph.4:32 Be kind and  compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
Trust:
Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Prov.3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding
Not forgiving leads you to temptation:
Gal.6:1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
Forgiving a sinner:
2 Cor.2:5-11 

5 Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure--not to put it too severely--to all of you. 
6 For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough
7 so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 
8 So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. 
9 For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything
10 Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ
11 so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs. 
Lord, help us all to forgive as You have forgiven us! Amen
The greatest act of forgiveness in my heart is that Christ, a sinless innocent, died for undeserving wicked man:
Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.








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