hey there Jennifer LeClaire here with you for another episode of hand-to-hand
combat dealing with everyday demons in this episode we're gonna talk about one
of the most deadly demons mindsets strongholds whatever you want to call it
unforgiveness now I know as you're watching me you're saying well I don't
have any unforgiveness many people who have one forgiveness don't know they
have unforgiveness but chances are you might have a little and I'm quite sure
you're gonna have the opportunity to have to forgive somebody in the future
unforgiveness is a teaching we need to hear about often several times a year
you know we need God's forgiveness probably every day and we need to press
into the reality of what unforgiveness does to us and how forgiveness brings
freedom like nothing else that we've ever experienced think about when you
got saved the joy of your salvation part of that joy came from the forgiveness
that the lifting of the weight that you fell we are to forgive one another and
so we're gonna talk about that today I'm here with Ryan Johnson from Ryan Johnson
ministries I'm gonna let you start off on this one you know there's a lot of
scripture that we can read in the Bible when we read it and it unnerved us it
unsettles us and but I will say this about that there's one verse that
absolutely sends chills up and down my spine when I read this and it's found
immediately after Jesus teaches the disciples how to pray you know the our
Father who art in heaven most people don't know the very next verse that's
found after Jesus said amen but the next verse actually says and if man does not
forgive man God will not forgive them will not I believe that one verse is
what's going to devastate a lot of people in eternity because they're gonna
think I have this thing figured out but that unforgiveness has had them so bound
I don't care how you translate that how you studied that out that scripture
means it Zack what it says and unforgiveness is
something that is causing just a wrecking havoc in the body of Christ
because we feel like we're justified in that but also because we don't
understand what forgiveness actually is what is it what is it look like I hear
people and I know you've heard people they'll say well I'll forgive them but I
won't forget yeah and we have this tendency to make forgiveness about
forgetting because in all honesty we have said things in error to the
scripture we think that God forgets our sins we think and we have this concept
you know you'll hear people there's even Christian songs on the radio talking
about the sea of forgetfulness well folks the reality is that's not what the
scripture says I hate to break it to you but there is no sea of forgetfulness God
doesn't take your sins throw me to this sea of forgetfulness and he just
miraculously forgets what you do so the one of the things that's a little bit
astonished into people they go out what do you tell math I thought God forgot my
sins well let me ask you this question if God forgot what kind of God would he
be I mean think about it you went to him in prayer and then he said Jennifer I
don't know what you're talking about and you had to remind him of that and
he's I totally forgot about that that's how we kind of view God because the
scripture says that we are to remind God of these Saints but it's not that he
forgot it's that he makes sure that we know the things in which he's declared
so how does forgiveness actually work and what is it about the see the
scripture says that he'll cast our sins into the into the sea never to remember
or recall them ever again into the depths of the sea what that word
remember and recall actually is saying is not about forgetting a remember
there's actually a member think of it this way you're going down
the road here in Florida and all of a sudden you hear a song or you see a
billboard and you have a thought of you being a kid now did you forget about it
or did you fail to remember see it was actually there the whole time but
something brought that out the power of God's forgiveness is not that he forgets
the power of God's forgiveness is that he says I know what you did and I know
the things in which were detrimental to who you are and to me but I love you so
much and because of the blood of Jesus Christ I will not go and bring that out
and throw it into your face again this is the power of forgiveness when we
begin to understand how God Himself forgives us then we're able to learn how
to forgive others that is so good the way I like to put it it's the same thing
you're saying but in a different way it's like he chooses not to remember it
yes because the Bible says that that love keeps no record of a wrong you know
and forgiveness isn't listen forgiveness is not just to find what somebody did
it's not saying it was okay they did that it wasn't okay which you forgive
anyway forgiveness is not forgetting I look my husband abandoned me he left me
with our two year old daughter and and I ended up in mega dad I was on food
stamps on WIC live in an abject poverty what he did was wrong because the Bible
says those who don't take care of their family are worse than infidels know that
I walk around you know declaring he's an infidel and what not while at first I
did honestly because I hadn't forgiveness and one day I was in the
shower and the Lord said to me this was some years after he left because I was
shaking my fist at God I'm like why did you let this happen see some of you I'm
speaking you by the Holy Spirit show me you have unforgiveness toward God and
you don't know it because something happened to you some kind of trauma some
kind of tragedy some kind of injustice you didn't expect it you were believing
God and the opposite happened is something you might not even remember
but I blamed God for my husband leaving and I shook my fist at God why did you
let this happen I was mad let me tell you something about God he can handle
your anger he can really really handle it but the Lord told me like three four
years later in the shower he said I didn't make him leave and I'm not making
him come back hmm and so in that moment God was like you know let it go like
stop you know he was letting me know look this is not my fault not because he
needed to defend himself but because he was defending my spirit from this
bitterness that was trying to stay there see bitterness unforgiveness and
resentment they walk together they roll together
they they they're like all tied up in a nasty toxic ball and we must choose to
forgive so that moment I chose to forgive God even though God didn't do
anything wrong so I said Lord I'm sorry that I held this against you I forgive
you even though you don't require forgive you it wasn't your fault and I I
let God off the hook and some of you today really need to let God off the
hook and let me say this one more thing we're gonna go to a break we'll talk
about this on the other side some of you that are watching you have unforgiveness
towards yourself and you need to give yourself a break we're going to be right
back see you on the other side are you
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unforgiveness remember let it go let it go let it go let it go let it go let
your you know your offense toward audio forget it let it go in the offense or
the unforgiveness towards our self me know III I've had him forgiveness toward
myself you know I had guilt shame and condemnation for things that you know
weren't even my fault sometimes or things that were but I just I was so
hard on myself some of you were so hard he so much harder than God is on you and
here's the thing about the the forgiveness aspect of it is where it's
about not forgetting and stuff we ought to learn something through all this and
that's the reason I think a lot of times we don't forget actually I believe it's
impossible for us to forget I believe it's a word that we use that actually
has no merit is we just fail to remember because it's not while I forgot to do
that did you really or did you just not remember those things but you know when
you look at somebody as a young child and they were sexually abused by
somebody you can't look at them and say oh you just need to forget about it and
along it's going to be there because it was very traumatic now can God zap that
brain made that sure but it's it just doesn't
happen that often so there's a realistic side to it and we have to understand
about forgiveness in that that aspect of knowing that it's about learning from
you know circumstances situations but learning to forgive ourselves and how we
walk through this and then what we really have to look at is we can't set
ourselves up for failure again what I mean by that is you know I have four
children if I have somebody that comes in and watches my kids and they abuse my
kids now I can forgive that person but I'm not going to get that person to come
in watch my kids again right that's that's stupid and the reason I'm saying
that is a lot of people because of something traumatic happen whatever you
know relationships break or whatever and people say well you've not forgiven
because you're not doing things with them anymore no that's not how
forgiveness works sometimes you just can't do anything with those people
anymore because time and circumstance changes that and we don't need to be
guilted into doing certain things so we have to learn from that forgiveness is
not about me going back to as if nothing ever happened again forgiveness is about
me being willing to not hold you in that position and always dangling you know
you've done this or you've done that now I say that to say this when is the best
time to forgive as soon as possible now I want to say because one thing that we
I believe this is my personal opinion that everyone that you're dealing right
now with some form of unforgiveness when you walk through the ability to forgive
I believe one of the most important things that you can do is go through
deliverance yeah now the reason I say that is because a unforgiving spirit can
morph into so many other things to where now you've become toxic and you don't
even realize it because it is it's more than just unforgiveness and you want to
go through this deliverance to purify yourself it's not that I'm sitting here
saying oh you're a horrible person you're a bad person that's now I've done
this myself when I dealt when somebody really done me really really
one of the first things I did is forgive as soon as possible and then I went
through deliverance you know I'm a born-again Christian but
I went through forgiveness because I didn't want my heart to become so hard
towards another person that is so good we're gonna have to do a part two we're
gonna do a part two because listen listen listen listen you the hurt or the
wound that you sustained that is causing you to feel this unforgiveness or take
this heart posture it cannot heal until you forgive so we're going to come back
for a part two on this and we're gonna talk about steps to forgiveness real
practical how do you forgive because I hear some of you saying you just don't
understand what they did to me I can't forgive you can do all things through
Christ who strengthens you you can forgive we're gonna come back and do a
part two on this and show you how to forgive I'm here with Ryan Johnson from
Ryan Johnson ministries we will be right back with another episode I am about to
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