Do you know how to forgive?
Is there someone in your life that you need to forgive?
Our past wounds seem to make forgiveness impossible.
Forgiveness in our Christian life means we refuse to retaliate or hold bitterness against other people for having wounded us.
Our forgiveness is unilateral, meaning it is not conditional on someone else's repentance or admission of guilt.
Just as Christ died under the brutal and unforgiving people of His day while forgiving them and all of us. In the same manner, we too must forgive.
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The Burden of Forgiveness - Dry Creek Wrangler School
Forgiveness Is Spiritual Warfare
"Much of our confusion and misery in life is due to our underestimating (or ignoring altogether) the enemy of our souls. Some of us rarely think of Satan and his demons, and if we do, we often downplay their power and influence. Surely, we could overestimate Satan (and many do), but in our day, especially in the West, it seems like he gets less attention and resistance than he deserves.
While the devil is already defeated and his end is sure, he is still “the ruler of this world” (John 12:31), and he still leads “the cosmic powers over this present darkness” and “the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12). And he rules and corrupts through deception. “There is no truth in him,” Jesus warns. “When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44). So, the apostle Paul warns, we must be careful lest we “be outwitted by Satan” or be found “ignorant of his designs” (2 Corinthians 2:11).
What may surprise us is what, in particular, prevents us from being outwitted by Satan. Paul writes, “What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs” (2 Corinthians 2:10–11). Do you want to know what Satan’s schemes are? He wants you to hold a grudge. He wants you to believe vengeance is yours, and not God’s. Forgiveness outwits Satan, and forgiveness subverts his wickedness..." from the article:
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