Once We Pour OUT, We Make Room For God to Pour IN - Forgiveness.... (6.15.20)

Faith Believers,

Envision your heart like a pitcher.....

 

Praying about the people we need to forgive is the means by which we tip that pitcher Heavenward, and slowly begin to pour our negative feelings and frustrations out to GOD. 

 

As we pour out, a wonderful thing happens, we make room for GOD to pour in. Our omniscient God knows that a heart heals when a heart changes. 

 

Until we make room for fresh content that changes our hearts, we will never be healed from the injury and subsequent feelings of unforgiveness.

It is important to pray “for” those whom we need to forgive. Most of us are already aware that we need to do this; however, we often stubbornly hang onto our “right” not to. If we are to be like Christ, we relinquish our “rights” and take on humility, being obedient to the Lord.  As Jesus says in Mark 11:25 - And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.

If unforgiveness has been a hindrance to your prayer life in the past, remember that satan will continue to attack you in this area, again and again – until your victory is firmly established in the strength of Christ Jesus. 

 

  -  Marilyn

If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes - 2 Corinthians 2:7-11

 

~ Prayer ~

Father, 

Help me.  For sometimes it just feels good to be angry with someone who has hurt me. 

 

There are times when I feel justified about my pain, and too often, I struggle to let go of my negative feelings towards whoever has caused that pain and those feelings.  

 

Please remind me that I MUST die to self, and all those things that my 'self' wants, in the flesh, so that I can live as Your Son, Jesus Christ - who took on the nature of a servant. 

 

Help me to be slow to anger and quick to forgive, as You Are, so that satan will not outwit me! 

 

Keep my heart aware of the enemy's attempts to cause me to fall into the trap that is the sin of unforgiveness. 

 

I pray this prayer in Jesus' Name,

 

Amen