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The key word for forgiveness is "release." The
firstfruit must release all the elements that would preclude the
forgiveness from being manifested.
I want you to imagine standing in a great room of a building before a
great wall with 20-foot ceilings. Now see this wall divided into
four parts--physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. In each
part of the wall are several electrical outlets each full of long, thick, black
power cords. Each power cord represents some element that is keeping you
from offering the forgiveness.
Your duty and responsibility is to identify each cord element. You
are then to unplug the cords, one by one. When you pull the plug
from the socket you cut off all power to that cord.
Clearly a powerful tool for forgiveness is meditation coupled with
prayer. The analogy above is perfect for your meditation.
The verses below are good for meditation and prayer.
Acts 7:59-60
59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit.
60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this
sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Matthew 6:12
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger
appeaseth strife.
Psalm 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our
transgressions from us.
John 13:34-35
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I
have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love
one to another.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Matthew 5:19
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and
shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of
heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called
great in the kingdom of heaven.
Mark 11:25
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that
your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Matthew 18:21-22
21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin
against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but,
Until seventy times seven.
Colossians 3:13
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a
quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
James 2:8
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love
thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
Matthew 6:15
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father
forgive your trespasses.
Now get out there and start pulling those plugs!! |
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