Happy New Year Balanced Life Family!
Last year I wrote a blog on forgiveness. Some of you have requested that I write a blog that tells how to get pass the pain and be healed, so that forgiveness can be experienced. Well, the truth is you’ll never get pass the pain until you forgive. If you’re unable to forgive, your heavenly father won’t forgive you. “But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” Matthew 6:15
You must make a decision with a commitment up front that you refuse to continue living with this pain. The pain won’t just disappear on its own. You’ve got to decide to take the necessary steps to get rid of the pain or you’ll NEVER be healed and able to move on. Now this may take longer than a one day session, but take your time and go through each of the following steps until you get deliverance.
After making that decision, go in prayer. Find a place that you can be alone with God and pour out to him all the hurt and pain that you are experiencing. He knows all about it, but when you vent, he’s there to listen. Cry out to him! “The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth and delivereth them out of all their troubles.” Psalm 34:17 Next, start praying a sincere prayer of forgiveness, for the person or people that offended you. Don’t say you can’t do it. You MUST do it. Ask God to help you. If you need to find the person or people that offended you and forgive them in person do that.
After you have wholeheartedly forgiven the one who caused the pain, focus on the present. “This is the day which the Lord hath made; we (I) will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24 It’s time to let go of the past and stop reliving it in your mind. There’s nothing you can do to change the past. Just work on making today one of the best days of your life. When you focus on the present you have less time to think about the past. When those thoughts come creeping back in to your mind to steal your joy and peace, speak the Word, Philippians 4:7 “And the peace of God which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” As you speak it over yourself, trust it, believe it. Let it manifest in your life. There’s power in the Word of God.
Finally, as you are focusing on the present, speaking the Word over yourself, trusting it, believing it and letting it manifest in your life, you are ready to step into the present and leave the pain of the past behind. This is a new year. I encourage you to get pass the pain and get ready to live some of the best days of your life.
