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\u201cForgive people when they do wrong things to you. If you forgive them, your Father in heaven will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive them, your Father will not forgive you.\u201d -Matthew 6:14-15<\/em><\/p>\n Forgiveness can be so hard sometimes. Someone you think should know better, someone you thought you could trust, someone you depended on who let you down \u2013 abuse, mistreatment, betrayal \u2013 we will all experience hurts, disappointments, and frustrations in life.<\/p>\n Although we may know better, sometimes it feels better in the moment to hold on. Parents, teachers, peers, friends, neighbors, bosses, companies, churches, government officials, ourselves, God \u2013 the list could go on and on. \u201cIt serves them right,\u201d we say. The immediate gratification of making our feelings known or acting upon them seems like the right thing to do\u2026 in the moment.<\/p>\n However, in that split second, we forget how detrimental unforgiveness can be. Harboring unforgiveness can result in diseases in our bodies, fear, anxiety, anger, and troubled or estranged relationships. When we feel we cannot forgive, the person it hurts the most is us. This is where we need God\u2019s intervention and healing. We need to make forgiveness a priority and realize that it is ALWAYS better to forgive \u2013 to let God take it, and let God be God. Forgiveness frees our minds, gives us peace, and brings us closer to God\u2019s purposes for our lives.<\/p>\n I went to a training one time that taught the participants to practice \u201cpre-forgiveness,\u201d the act of forgiving someone before they do anything \u2013 deciding that no matter what they have done in the past, could do now, or will do in the future, we have chosen to forgive.<\/p>\n \u201cThen Peter came to Jesus. \u2018Lord, if my brother keeps on hurting me, how many times should I forgive him?\u2019 he asked. \u2018Should I forgive him seven times?\u2019 \u2018No, not just seven times, but forgive him seventy times seven times\u2019, Jesus said.\u201d -Matthew 18:21&22<\/p>\n Is there anyone you need to forgive today? Is there an issue in your heart that feels unresolved? Resolve yourself to forgiveness. Let us be pure in mind and in spirit so that God will \u201cfind nothing in us\u201d (2 Peter 2:2) that the enemy could use to deter us from God\u2019s purpose for us.<\/p>\n Subscribe Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Forgiveness \u201cForgive people when they do wrong things to you. If you forgive them, your Father in heaven will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive them, your Father will not forgive you.\u201d -Matthew 6:14-15 Forgiveness can be so hard sometimes. Someone you think should know better, someone you thought you could trust,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1470,182,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-22109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-devotionals","8":"tag-forgiveness","9":"tag-god","10":"tag-today"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}