70X7 SESSION 2: Five Requirements for Lasting Forgiveness

Forgiveness is one of those characteristics that God desires to be a permanent fixture in our lives. This session reflects on Christ’s five universal requirements to break out of our heart-prisons, for real and forever.

[saradanser]

Appreciate prayer. My heart was so broken. I have been continuously tormented in agonizing pain the past 8.5 months over a situation from 2021-2023. I have been trying to forcibly go through these steps. I have Not been able to successfully get through this process. Non-stop pain, constantly disturbed about the situation, begging God to take me home or wipe my memory. I feel like the emotional torment is literally breaking my body down.

[saradanser]

As a person who has been abused every way, since as early as I can remember, and who was held against my will for 3 days and the person was incarcerated for 4.5 years after pleading guilty-- I could NOT STAND the opening case example. I was so beyond disgusted and offended that I almost didn't listen to the teaching at all.

I'm grateful God spoke to my heart and I chose to listen to the rest of this anyway.

It was Powerful, Poignant, and Practical--> it was both a "How To" AND "Why."

Anyone else who is disturbed by the first 8.5 minutes--> Please, don't throw the rest away!

[saradanser]

This specific breakdown was EXTREMELY HELPFUL. THANK YOU

[saradanser]

We must Forgive FROM OUR HEART.
Matthew chapter 18. Matthew chapter 5.
Ephesians 4:32

REQUIREMENTS FOR FORGIVENESS

1. Open your your heart
2. Extend COMPASSION to the person
3. RELEASE the Person from your heart prison
3.1 SEPARATE the person from the action they did. The ACTION wounded you. The ACTION is Bad. The PERSON isn't bad.
3.2 The person is locked in your heart prison UNTIL YOU RELEASE THEM.

4.1 FORGIVE EVERYONE WHO HURTS YOU ACCIDENTALLY
4.2 FORGIVE EVERYONE FOR EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEIR TRESPASSES
4.3 Forgive GROUPS or Governments that have hurt you.
4.4 Forgive offenders, ALIVE and DEAD. However long as the wound remains in you.
WE MUST FORGIVE
4.5 Forgive whether or not people Apologize
4.6 Forgive EVEN IF THE PERSON DOESN'T CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOR
**4.7** FORGIVE WHETHER OR NOT THE PERSON MAKES RESTITUTION
4.8 Forgiveness does NOT mean you Condone the Bad Action.

--> FORGIVENESS IS NEVER DESERVED

--> IF FORGIVENESS ISN'T GIVEN, YOU ARE GIVEN TO THE TORMENTORS

4.9 Forgiveness DOESN'T mean you DON'T Maintain Healthy Boundaries

**4.10. Forgiveness DOESN'T mean that Relationship is always Restored.

5. BLESS AND DO GOOD to the other person
LOVE THE ONES WHO HATE YOU, HURT YOU, SPITEFULLY USE YOU, PERSECUTE YOU


LOVE-
PRESENT, at ALL times
ACTIVE, I DO IT
IMPERATIVE, I'M COMMANDED TO DO IT

WE ARE TO FORGIVE AND BLESS OTHERS, EVEN AS PEOPLE ARE **IN THE PROCESS OF** HURTING AND CURSING US

[murrismiller]

GLAD 2 SEE this free... i cant afford it otherwise 😉

[salome]

Do you have to tel people whim have hurt you, that what they did.. and why / that you forgave them...

[jamalkarahartage]

But you can't tiptoe arround everyone's triggers, and just because they are triggered doesn't give them the right to act any kind of way towards you. We are people too... just like they are... and deserve the same grace. I had a patient once who treated me horribly during my initial assessment of her. When I left and came back, she apologized stating that she had had a rough day. I accepted her apology and told her that I had had a rough day also but I didn't take it out on her. My husband and I had been having a huge argument for several days and on that day we were contemplating divorce, but before we could finish our discussion, I had to leave to go to work... as she was my first patient for the night. As nurse, this happens often. Some patients feel like they have a right to behave like she did, not considering what we have just gone through in the other room. Their behavior (X) is a choice, and I am not their issue (also X). I am a person too.