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Remember what Jesus did for you. Because of sin, we were separated from God. The debt of sin leads to the prison of condemnation because you cannot pay it off. But Jesus through His death, bought you out of debt by His blood. The Father accepted His blood in place of your sin. So you were made cleared from any payments due to you. Which is your salvation! If God forgave you of your debt, wouldn't you do the same for your neighbor?
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I struggled for years on these topics..
Until God got a hold of me....
I took a good look at gids grace and mercy towards me and all i had done..
Gods mercy doesnt give me what i "really" deserve, and His grace gives me "more" than i deserve.
When i read that statement and really looked at it, wow! Gods mercy towards everything ive done has been great. His instruction to me is "go do all that has been done for you" ive not been able to ignore that since...
I used to be like judge judy.. Judge, jury, executioner , and i was "good" at it. but my heart has greatly softened towards God because if His tenderness towards me. Now when judge judy wants to pop up a little whisper comes immediately "but by the grace of God.... there go I". Not to mention a secobd whisper "michelle , michelle, have you forgotten or do you not remember, all that has been done for you?" When God comes, judge judy in Me has no option but to fall on her face before Him. i find i am unable to respond at all in the situation now when this happens... that went on for a while as God began revealing how he responded to me in my times of error... he made no mention i had errored, he only showed me love.. he loved me no mattwr how awful i had been towards Him. go and do likewise? God is bringing me out of the stages of being silent to releasing some of what he has released to me. It is now beginning to flow out towards those i either hated, severed off from any relationship with me, or just plain mad at..true peace is being restored and increasing, chains of bitterness and
resentment are releasing me from bondage.., i know exactly what youre talking about .. Relating to God and really looking at myself towards Him and what He has done for me seems to be the key to unlocking those chains..
Until God got a hold of me....
I took a good look at gids grace and mercy towards me and all i had done..
Gods mercy doesnt give me what i "really" deserve, and His grace gives me "more" than i deserve.
When i read that statement and really looked at it, wow! Gods mercy towards everything ive done has been great. His instruction to me is "go do all that has been done for you" ive not been able to ignore that since...
I used to be like judge judy.. Judge, jury, executioner , and i was "good" at it. but my heart has greatly softened towards God because if His tenderness towards me. Now when judge judy wants to pop up a little whisper comes immediately "but by the grace of God.... there go I". Not to mention a secobd whisper "michelle , michelle, have you forgotten or do you not remember, all that has been done for you?" When God comes, judge judy in Me has no option but to fall on her face before Him. i find i am unable to respond at all in the situation now when this happens... that went on for a while as God began revealing how he responded to me in my times of error... he made no mention i had errored, he only showed me love.. he loved me no mattwr how awful i had been towards Him. go and do likewise? God is bringing me out of the stages of being silent to releasing some of what he has released to me. It is now beginning to flow out towards those i either hated, severed off from any relationship with me, or just plain mad at..true peace is being restored and increasing, chains of bitterness and
resentment are releasing me from bondage.., i know exactly what youre talking about .. Relating to God and really looking at myself towards Him and what He has done for me seems to be the key to unlocking those chains..
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Real forgiveness is given with the will, not the feelings. When you make the choice not to exact payback, you have forgiven them. When you think of some person or situation you resent or feel bitter to, pray for them. This is actually the biblical solution. Experience proves that pretty soon, your feelings change.
When people do wrong, we are to leave that only in the Lord's hands.
Rom_12:19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
When I am under attack by some people in my life, I get a lot of comfort from reading how David handled it when Saul was out to kill him. Saul even came alone into a cave where David was hiding and David was even kind to him. But some of the psalms David wrote asks the Lord to take care of his enemies. It is symbolic of taking care of sin, but also of the people who were attacking him.
God can be trusted, both with our care and to avenge. We can be free just to follow God.
Rom_12:19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
When I am under attack by some people in my life, I get a lot of comfort from reading how David handled it when Saul was out to kill him. Saul even came alone into a cave where David was hiding and David was even kind to him. But some of the psalms David wrote asks the Lord to take care of his enemies. It is symbolic of taking care of sin, but also of the people who were attacking him.
God can be trusted, both with our care and to avenge. We can be free just to follow God.
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To be balanced, in some cases individuals do things and speak evil things about others who we love and we resent that and don't want to be associated with that individual. We deal with that individual according to the scriptures and we have no fellowship with them until they make it right and come clean. That does not mean we are not kind to them and we are to refrain our own tongue from speaking evil of them likewise. The resentment that we have should be brief and isolated without it turning into bitterness in the soul. When we forgive a person we should receive grace and forget that thing that was done that we have forgiven. If we do not forget, that thing becomes a spot in the soul and it hinders our own feast of keeping ourselves in the love of God. The next time you feel resentment on the inside, lay it aside and receive God's grace so that you can have fellowship with Christ in your relationship with him.
