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Forgiving
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Permalink Reply by Johnann on
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That's a good thing to do. I have been working on that. I'm so hungry for God, and have so many obstacles to overcome it certainly feels like. I just want the peace of truly forgiving others and myself.
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Permalink Reply by Amanda on
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I see that you are fighting hard battles in your life.
I know that I fall so short of God's will. I think this frustrating life would be unbearable if it were not for Jesus.
I want to become more like Him.
I want to be usable to God.
I know you do, too.
May the Lord give you strength to cope with your pain. May He take away the burden of any guilt and shame you may have as you struggle to forgive yourself and others and let you know freedom from unforgiveness.
Although I'm familiar with the struggle, I don't want to turn this back on me, so I'll keep it short. I know it's not the same. No one's experience is the same, but Jesus is the True Light and He helps bring light into all our dark corners. I think it's good that you're talking about it.
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Permalink Reply by ribbon on
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That is a good thing... maybe you can search the bible to see who you are in Christ.... Mostly who He is. I hope you learn much here.
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Permalink Reply by Carla on
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Amanda,
Good Word. I think this is really key. Knowing who we are In Christ allows us to accept our new identity as Blessed, Chosen, Adopted, Accepted, Forgiven, Redeemed and Loved. Now we have to learn to appropriate this new identity-- to walk in it... that's a process for all of us.
Blessings, Carla
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Thanks for the encouragement, Carla. For sure, it's a process for us all.
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Permalink Reply by Richard L. Broch, Sr. on
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Hi Johnann, welcome to AAG.
Let's go to Ephesians 1:7-8, " In Him (Jesus Christ) we have redemption (free from the bondage of sin) through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, (sins) according to the riches of His grace, (love that we don't deserve) 8. which He lavished upon us.........
Now, let's see how we're supposed to live according to what we've received by coming to Almighty God through Christ, His son..........Ephesians 4:31-32, " Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. (32) And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you."
So Johnann, If we are in Christ, we have been forgiven by God Himself (as it is explained above).......and if the Almighty has forgiven us.......who are we to say that we are not forgiven of our "sin being"?? There is no valid reason why we can't forgive ourselves.
Now, about "sin doing".........which we Christians are sometimes guilty of.......along with all those of the world.........
Let's go to 1st John 1:8-9-10, " If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.(9)If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.(10)If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us."
All this is to say that as a Christian, one is forever forgiven of "sin being". And also as a Christian, one is forgiven of those day-to-day mistakes, given to temptations, and short-comings, "sin doings".......if one confesses them and seeks forgiveness.
Plus we are to forgive everybody and anybody for "sin doing". If there's any concern about punishment or pay-backs, God takes care of that department.
I'll be praying for you, Sis.
Grace and Peace.
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Permalink Reply by Tammy on
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Forget & Be Fruitful
The past isn’t your past if it is still affecting your present.”
A personal past. We all have one. And sometimes they are not very glorious.
In some cases, painful pasts are consequences of our own bad choices. Self-inflicted wounds.
Often however, the heartache from the past has been caused by others. Betrayal. Unfaithfulness. Deceit. Broken trust. Slander. Needle-pointed thorns that have lodged in our hearts and festered into ugly infected wounds.
It is impossible to reach and stretch for the future when we live in the pain of the past.
The book of Genesis gives us a great example of this principle. Joseph, at seventeen years-of-age, was loved by his father Jacob"more than any other of his sons…and he made him a robe of many colors" (37:3 ESV) His brothers "hated him and could not speak peacefully to him." (37:4 ESV) They then conspired against him and "sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver" (37:28 ESV) who then "sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharoah, captain of the guard." (37:36 ESV) Potiphar’s wife then seduces Joseph, and when he rejects her advances, she falsely accuses him and "his master took him and put him into prison…" (38:20 ESV) Many years later, he interprets a dream for Pharoah and is released from prison and put "over all the land of Egypt" (41:43) At 30 years-of-age (thirteen years after his brothers sold him into slavery) Joseph is given Asenath "the daughter of Potiphera priest of On" (41:50 ESV) in marriage and fathers two sons.
What’s interesting is the names he gives his sons. “Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh (making to forget) ‘For’ he said, ‘God has made me forget all of my hardship and all my father’s house.’ The name of the second he called Ephraim,(fruitfulness) ‘For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.’” (41:51-52 ESV)
Joseph determined that he would not be a prisoner of his past. All that had happened in the “prison” season of his life was neither fatal nor final.
Make a bridge over your past. Release it. Work through it. Stretch for the future and be fruitful. The Apostle Paul expresses the same conviction in Philippians 3:13-14, “…one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (ESV)
The beauty of a past that has been healed is expressed in The Song of Solomon, “My beloved speaks and says to me: ‘Arise my love, my beautiful one, and come away, for behold the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come…” (2:10-12 ESV)
Let go of the past. Press toward the future. It just could turn your life around.
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Permalink Reply by thewatchman on
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The Bible only speaks of forgiveness from God. I don't think that we forgive ourselves? We ask forgiveness from God for our own wrong doings, but never from ourselves.
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