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Thursday, March 3rd 2005 . 
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Thursday, March 3rd 2005 .
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IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST ANYONE, FORGIVE HIM AND LET IT DROP MARK 11:25 What do you do when someone has hurt you, and you’ve done the right thing and forgiven them, but you still feel hurt? Sound familiar? Did you know you can make the right decision and still have the wrong feelings? This is when you need faith to carry you through. You’ve done your part, now you’re waiting on God to do His part, which is heal your emotions and make you feel whole again. Only God has the power to change your feelings toward the one who hurt you, and He will. Have you completed the process? Once you’ve made a decision to forgive, is your job finished? No, listen: ‘bless those who curse you, pray for those who are cruel to you’ (Luke 6:28 NCV). Bless them? Yeah! And that word bless, actually means ‘to speak well of’. Ouch! You’re extending mercy to those who don’t deserve it! But isn’t that what God does for you? The truth is, you cannot truly forgive without the Holy Spirit’s help. None of us can. So today why don’t you pray, ‘Holy Spirit, fill me and give me strength. I forgive ___________ [name] for what they did. I’m letting go and I ask You to bless them. I turn the situation over to You. I trust You to heal my emotions. Help me, Lord. In Jesus name, Amen.’ Now, by faith, leave it all in your Father’s hands! Short
Prayer for Today
How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? Look on me and answer, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death; my enemy will say, "I have overcome him," and my foes will rejoice when I fall. But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing to the LORD, for he has been good to me. " Chaplet of the Divine Mercy and the Novena to the Divine Mercy << Previous Day >> || << Next Day >> (Many of the reflections on each page are used with the kind permission of United Christian Broadcastors (UCB) from their FREE daily devotional - The Word for Today. They allow the publication of 52 of their passages per year and I find their messages apt and though-provoking for the times we live in.) |
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