The title itself was enough for me; God gave me this several days ago, and I asked God to search me and clean me out before I said anything to His people. I wanted to make sure that in which I was about to teach I was really living. Have you ever really thought about how its pointless to not forgive someone who has hurt or betrayed you? The reason I say it's pointless is because you feel you are going to be mad with this individual and somewhere in your mind you feel as if you are getting them back, when all actuality they have moved on and sleep real good at night. My philosophy is "half the people who hurt you don't know, and the other half doesn't care" so where does that leave you? I'll tell you; it leaves you bitter, angry, mad, depressed, and controlling, and none of these things benefits you in any way. It took me a long time to really forgive people and I felt I was justified in the way I was feeling. And one day the Father reminded me of Jesus; and how Judas betrayed Him and still yet on the cross, Jesus said, "Father forgive them; for they know not what they do". (Luke 23:34) If the Great Messiah can forgive, knowing that His life was going to be taken, who are we not to forgive someone else? If you feel in life you will not be hurt, or disappointed, you really need to go before the Father and ask Him to change your way of thinking. Even the ones who are the closes to us will hurt us and let us down. We always want to get back at people who hurt us or let us down; what if God had that same mentality with us; where would we be? When I looked up the word forgive it means: to excuse for an fault or offense;to cease from anger or resentment. Sometimes it's really hard to let go and forgive someone, and the reason is not because the pain hurts so bad it's because you are trying to do it in your own strength, you have to let God do this spiritual surgery only He can go inside of the hidden places of our heart and pull that un-forgiveness from the root. I remember for years I was so angry and always wanted to fight somebody and it was because I had so much resentment and bitterness inside of me, and I never knew how to get rid of it, until God showed me how. And un-forgiveness will sneak up on you; it starts with you being hurt, and then you distance yourself, then you replay the situation in your mind over and over again, then you find yourself becoming angry, and then you start having resentment, and then because you do not want to ever feel that way again you start trying to control the things around you, because you feel if I am in control then I do not have to worry about being hurt, but even when you try to control things you still wind up getting hurt, and that's just a way of life, you can not control it. So many women and men have been abused in so many ways and they get into a relationship and as soon as the other person hurts you in any way a wall goes up and sad to say some people have been married for years and that wall has never came down. We can not expect our husbands or wives or even our children to not hurt us or disappoint us, even friends, co workers, extended family will do the same. God showed me how to not take score, and as the blows come give them to Him; I know it seems easier said than done, but with practice it becomes easier and easier. This is why there is so much division and confusion in the church, someone has hurt someone and there has never been true forgiveness; when you really forgive you do not throw it back up in that persons face, and this is what so many people do and this is why their walk with Christ have become so slow and seems like its dragging, you can not move forward into the promises and blessings that the Father has until you have humbled yourself before Him. Remember you may have reason to feel the way you do, but you do not have a right!!! You do not want Jesus to come back, and you miss out on making heaven your home because of some un-forgiveness in your heart.

 

Matthew 18:21-22

Then came Peter to Him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?

Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.