The Power of God’s Forgiveness Part One: Our Need to Forgive

3 Part Series Our Need to Forgive Our Freedom in Forgiveness Our Joy in Forgiveness

INSPIRATION

Who Needs Forgiveness? Everyone Has a Grievance Story

Forgiveness Physical Benefits and Healing – Free you from Past Hurts, allowing you to have the Energy and Focus to Pursue your Dreams. Reliving? – Forgiveness is necessary for you and me. It will help you to look at past hurts in a different way.

3 Great Reasons for you to Forgive 1. Ignoring the Pain & Frustration wont make it go away. You have to deal with it Effectively. 2. You Win/Triumph when you forgive! Not getting your offender back but releasing yourself from the stronghold of pain and the desire for revenge. 3. This Topic will show you practical ways to Forgive and gain A GREATER PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE.

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Maybe you have Misunderstood Forgiveness. 1.Forgiveness is not Forgetting, but Changing the Way you Remember - Not a Delete Button! 2.Forgiveness doesn’t mean the Act was OK. A Wrong can Never be Right? 3.Forgiveness does not Always Mean Reconciliation. You can Forgive and be free- ed from the Burdens of Un-Forgiveness

Definitions of Forgiveness 1.Forgiveness is the sense of peace you experience when you take your feelings of hurt lest personally. You take Responsibility for how you feel. Be a Hero and not a Victim in the story you tell. 2.Forgiveness means that even though you are wounded, you choose to hurt and suffer less.

Definitions of Forgiveness 3. Forgiveness is Giving Up ‘My Right’ to Hurt You for Hurting Me. 4. Our friends are those who know their own faults well enough to forgive others. 5.Always Forgive your Enemies, nothing Annoys them so much. 6.He who cannot forgive others breaks down the bridge over which he must travel some day.

Definitions of Forgiveness 7. Forgiveness can be considered a Selfish Act, Because of all the Benefits Received by the One who Forgives. 8. Forgiveness is the Process of Reframing your Anger and Hurt from the Past with the Goal of Recovering Your Peace in the Present, and Revitalize your Purpose and Hopes for the Future.

The Blessings of Forgiveness Forgiveness is not some Lofty Ideal to be Imagined but never Reached. Instead forgiveness is a very effective and practical way of dealing with life’s disappointments. Forgiveness is a learned skill, that with practice you can use effectively.

Matthew 6: Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him. 9 After this manner therefore pray: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread.

Matthew 6: And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. 14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: 15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

What do Your Feelings Tell You? You do not Feel like Forgiving, I do not Feel like Forgiving. OUR SALVATION DEPENDS ON IT!

10 Principles of Forgiveness: 1. Life is not Fare, but who says anybody has to play by Your Rules anyway? 2. Stop Blaming Others for Your Circumstances and Your Feelings. 3. Understand that You Cannot Change the Person who Hurt You, You can Only Change the Way You Feel about Them.

10 Principles of Forgiveness: 4. Acknowledge the Anger and Hurt that some Unpleasant Incident is Causing You. 5. Reframe your Story of Hurt or Grievance, by Placing the Hurtful Events in a Broader Context than your Current Point of View. 6. Recognize that You can Only make the Choice to Forgive.

10 Principles of Forgiveness: 7. Change your View of the Offender, by Humbly Choosing to Empathize with His or Her Life Situation. 8. Choose to Move from Discontent, to Contentment. 9. Understand that Forgiveness could Take Time, and Cannot be Rushed. 10. Take Responsibility for Your Life and Your Future.

The Parable of DURA

Spell of the Sorcerer. “Through Your Eyes You Will Not See, A Life of Hope or Joy or Glee, Through your Mouths where Curses Flock, Every ANGRY Word shall turn into a ROCK”

The Parable of DURA

Matthew 18

The Ultimate Reason For Forgiveness

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