Friday March 26th, 2021
« If you forgive others the wrongs they have done to you, your Father in heaven will also forgive you. »
23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
25 “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”
We have been treating the “Mathematics of Christ In You’” (MCY) since March 19.
The ‘B’ in our equation for Resistance stands for Bitterness.
If you refuse to forgive those who have offended you, you are only multiplying your suffering because the fellow who offended you is going on with his or her life yet you are suffering spiritually.
It is like stopping to rant at someone who sped past your car at a traffic light.
You are only delaying yourself further.
I quickly forgive those who offend me because I don’t want to get myself into trouble.
« Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many »
Unforgiveness can defile you and lead to some very serious sicknesses too.
There was a man who was bloating. The doctors could not find anything wrong, so he came to the Church. God revealed that the man had some restitution to make. We eventually found that this man chose not to forgive his son-in-law. When he was going to give out his daughter in marriage, he made the young man promise to take good care of her. Unfortunately, the boy started beating the wife. Her father pleaded with him but things only got worse.
One day, the husband fired a gun at his wife but missed narrowly. That was when the man asked his daughter to leave finally; however he swore to never forgive the boy and to deal with him. The man was told that he had to forgive, and in fact, according to Matthew 18:15, he had to be the one to go to the son-in-law. The man went because he wanted to be healed. As he reached his son-in-law’s house, the young man tried to escape. The man however said “I have not come to fight; I have come to beg you. I have forgiven you and I want you to do the same”.
As they hugged and wept, the man who had been bloated suddenly reduced in size to such an extent that his wedding ring dropped from his finger to the ground. He was healed! Forgive, so you can be free.
Application – Stop punishing yourself; forgive everyone who has offended you.
Author – Bishop Enoch. A. Adeboye.
Edited by Naomie
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