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I can imagine, if you have read all five days of forgiveness you are sitting there thinking, this all sounds good, but my heart still hurts and that person who hurt me has never even said they were sorry. I get it. I had been waiting almost a decade for someone to step up and
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Yesterday I wrote about preparing our hearts every morning for forgiveness. Forgiveness is an action. It is continued cooperation with Jesus everyday of our lives. It produces kindness and compassion through the Holy Spirit to walk in a spirit of forgiveness. Yet, even though we we prepare each day to forgive, there are moments that
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Jesus taught us in Matthew 6 the perfect prayer to pray each day to help us get ahead of any offences we might encounter. The disciples asked Jesus how to pray. This prayer is known today as the Lord’s Prayer. Today, let us look upon and note the parts Jesus emphasizes about confession and forgiveness.
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When unchangeable feels unforgivable it feels like someone has taken something from you that you will never get back. When the outcome seems so final you can not get your bearings about you to go on. When they hurt you so deeply you fear normal is never going to come back. It is a grief
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32 And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ. Ephesians 4:32 How often do we define our lives by life before and after a deep hurt? How many today are stuck in the agonizing and horrific season of pain and suffering? The conversation that stunned you. The shocking day
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2 keeping our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy that lay before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2 The Romans, during the first century, had perfected the art of execution through crucifixion. They had experimented with their
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From cover to cover, God’s Word speaks about the dilemma of our pain and emotional turmoil. We have an honest record about the people of great diversity and great faith, who also experienced anxiety, fear, and depression. God’s Word does not sweep these accounts under the rug. Read the following “cries of the heart.” Can
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5 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,6 who, existing in the form of God,did not consider equality with Godas something to be exploited.7 Instead he emptied himselfby assuming the form of a servant,taking on the likeness of humanity.And when he had come as a man,8 he humbled himself by becoming obedientto the point of death—even to
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Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Matthew 11:28 What is shame? Shame is agonising. Shame is an unbearable weight. Shame is burdensome. Shame is heavy. Shame is extra and unnecessary baggage we carry and it is exhausting. I hope to this point you have been
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God’s Word is revelation of God’s awesomeness and a narrative of humanity’s unrelenting journey of brokenness and shame. When I started trying to understand shame, i found many examples in God’s Word of the many ways evil tries to shame us. When we read over these, think about your life right now. Do any of
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