Your prayers are real, more than just words but powerful and mighty through God. When you pray, Yahweh listens with an intent, to do something about it . . .Keep praying your prayers really work!
Forgiveness means releasing the resentment, bitterness, blame, hostility, hatred, anger and fear that you have towards someone who has transgressed against you or even against yourself. It also means to cancel the need to punish the offender. Releasing the offender from your judgment, allows God to deal with the offender. Forgiving yourself for your mistakes, gets rid of self condemnation and allows you to receive all the blessings God has for you! Forgiveness is an act of the will, not an emotion.
When we do not forgive, however, we rehearse the wrongs and dwell in the poison, we intend for others. Often, when we haven’t forgiven, we engage in negative thoughts and emotions and relive the trauma, without any resolution. Unforgiveness adds high stress to one’s body and mind that opens one up for chronic physical disease or mental torment and mental illness. The cost of unforgiveness is extremely costly to one’s self.
When we accept Jesus as our Savior, our sins are forgiven. In order to receive forgiveness, however, we need to cancel the debt owed us, by others. If we do not release the offender, we stew in our own bitterness and anger that we want the offender to drink. This bitter root grows and effects not only the one living, as a victim but also those in relationship with them. (“…lest any root of bitterness spring up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.” Hebrews 12:15)
Jesus told a parable about a king in Matthew 18:23-25 who had a servant who owed him millions of dollars and couldn’t repay the debt. The servant asked for mercy and the king had compassion and cancelled the debt. Then the servant went to a fellow servant and demanded payment for a lessor debt of a few dollars and refused to have mercy and threw him in prison until the debt was paid. When the king learned of this, he threw the unforgiving servant in prison and delivered him to the tormentors. Jesus said we would have the same treatment, if we did not forgive others from our heart. When we forgive, we become victorious with no place for the enemy to steal, destroy and kill us. Our prayers reach God unhindered and we can enjoy living, without the regret and shame of reliving the past and never healing.
God never gives us an assignment without giving us the provision to see it to completion. His presence is with us, he is our covering and present help. He is our shelter, refuge and strength and with him at our side, nothing is impossible.
Trust and rely on him not your own understanding or resources. Put feet to your mental assent and move. You will find that nothing is impossible, when you trust and obey God.
Yes, God is more than ready to overwhelm you with every form of grace, so that you will have more than enough of everything —every moment and in every way. He will make you overflow with abundance in every good thing you do. (2 Corinthians 9:8 TPT)
12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; 13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. (1 Timothy 1:12-14)
Paul, previously named Saul, formerly a Hater, but God had mercy on Him. I was once a Hater, we’ve all been haters and come short of the Glory of God, but he had mercy on us. Extend mercy to your Hater, they might be the next Paul one day.
Refuse to hold people to standards that you know you can’t live yourself. Love your Haters and extend mercy today!
We are in a season of great change. Earthquakes, hurricanes and tornados in unusual places and unusual weather patterns of heat and cold. Many things which were constant in the past are changing. Even in our personal lives there is rapid change and transformation.
God is calling us to leave the past behind and to move into our future. It is time to let go of old destructive ways of thinking and yield ourselves to God so he can transform us. Taking off the old garments and getting rid of everything that keeps us from victorious life. God gives us fresh vision and perspective, as we change our focus from our circumstances to Jesus. A transformation and metamorphosis happens so we become more in the image of Jesus the Messiah.
It is a new season and time to emerge from the comfort of the cocoon and to emerge transformed.
Metamorphosis is a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the adult butterfly.
“Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].” (Romans 12:2 AMPC)
I’ll tell you what’s funny to God, he created us for relationship with him and each other. But how we treat him is reflected in how we treat each other.
Keep listening and obeying Yahweh. Where there were hindrances, disapproval, and opposition, Heaven’s advancement, great blessing, and favor are going to find you.
Pure worship of God, gives him what he desires not merely the pittance that we want to give. Obedience to his instructions, is the highest form of adoration and reverence not sacrifices. Give him all the glory and obey.
Full surrender, submission and the total giving of your heart and self to God, results in major breakthrough. The favor of God, comes from obedience.
But Samuel replied, “What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams. (1 Samuel 15:22 NLT)
Pure Glory 