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What Forgiveness Looks Like To You
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQtfgVWngWc Messages 1-7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFn1hLLLmR4 Messages 1-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZMXM5do8nQ Messages 1-5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFn1hLLLmR4 Messages 1-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZMXM5do8nQ Messages 1-5
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Lightbearer3
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If anyone knows about abuse it is Joyce M.
Balance is important...to forgive an abuser doesn't mean we should have to live with them to be subjected to more of it, or seeing them everyday to be reminded of it. It is God's love and grace that enables us to forgive those who have severely abused us or our children.
We are a work in progress, sometimes that takes awhile. Some people don't get "instant" deliverence" from their wounds.
The more we strive to be closer to God the less unforgiveness will reign in our hearts.
Where to begin? Make a confession with your mouth that you "will to forgive in your heart" and ask God to help you forgive them. Forgiveness is not a feeling. It is a decision. Keep praying and seeking God the "feeling" will catch up with your "decision" to forgive.
Doing what's right doesn't always "feel" good; sometimes there is only numbness, no feeling. But when we make a decision to come into agreement with God about forgiveness that's when you've made a step in the right direction. Just take it to God with all your emotion, bear your heart and soul to Him. Pour it all out, how you feel, everything. Then ask Him to help you to forgive, tell Him you don't want unforgiveness to be in your heart and it is your will to forgive.
Your tears and prayers are stored in vials and come up before the Lord as a sweet smelling savour. He hears you and knows you.
Balance is important...to forgive an abuser doesn't mean we should have to live with them to be subjected to more of it, or seeing them everyday to be reminded of it. It is God's love and grace that enables us to forgive those who have severely abused us or our children.
We are a work in progress, sometimes that takes awhile. Some people don't get "instant" deliverence" from their wounds.
The more we strive to be closer to God the less unforgiveness will reign in our hearts.
Where to begin? Make a confession with your mouth that you "will to forgive in your heart" and ask God to help you forgive them. Forgiveness is not a feeling. It is a decision. Keep praying and seeking God the "feeling" will catch up with your "decision" to forgive.
Doing what's right doesn't always "feel" good; sometimes there is only numbness, no feeling. But when we make a decision to come into agreement with God about forgiveness that's when you've made a step in the right direction. Just take it to God with all your emotion, bear your heart and soul to Him. Pour it all out, how you feel, everything. Then ask Him to help you to forgive, tell Him you don't want unforgiveness to be in your heart and it is your will to forgive.
Your tears and prayers are stored in vials and come up before the Lord as a sweet smelling savour. He hears you and knows you.
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I love Joyce Meyer and I think that she has alot of great things to say ln this subject.
Forgiveness is very hard, but I believe that it does happen...eventually. I haven't forgiven my abuser, and I am a long way off from doing it. I'm still trying to forgive my parents for not stopping it or being there. It's a long process, but you will get there.
Forgiveness is very hard, but I believe that it does happen...eventually. I haven't forgiven my abuser, and I am a long way off from doing it. I'm still trying to forgive my parents for not stopping it or being there. It's a long process, but you will get there.
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silentpoet
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I forgave my abuser, not the abuse. You forgive the sinner not the sin. That is probably as far as I can go in forgiveness. The sin done to me I cannot forgive. I can forgive a fallen human being. But what was done to me was unforgiveable.
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