"Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; that your father in heaven may also forgive your trespasses." (Jesus in Mark 11:25 NRSV)
Jesus had just finished giving His disciples a practical lesson about faith, faith that can move a mountain but He concluded this by inserting into His faith message the necessity of forgiving anyone to whom the praying person had something against. Unforgiveness will hinder receiving answers to prayer. It will prevent you from removing the mountain that Jesus refers to in this passage. In fact unforgiveness may very well be the mountain that He is talking about. And it takes faith to remove the mountain of unforgiveness that is hindering your prayers. I have been in these situations, one in particular where a certain individual caused me much grief and has never said that they were sorry and usually avoids me and I find that tendency myself and one day I made it a point to go and shake that persons hand and every time I see them, I do just that. I have found that it works. It is a God like thing to do; it is a God quality. Forgiveness to another person gets the albatross off your back. Remember what Jesus said about forgiving your enemy and thereby heaping coals of fire on their heads? It will cause your enemy to become defenseless and you might even gain a brother. You will get an answer to your prayers. Try it...you might like it. RC
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What could be so terrible that we could not forgive someone for after what Jesus forgave on the CROSS and has forgiven our sins ever since.
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Hi Randall
Forgiveness is something that we could talk about for along time.
We talk about it like it is something that is easy to do,but it is not.Most times it is only God that helps it happen.To be able to truly forgive you first must give what ever it is over to God.
We can want to forgive but without Gods help we can't completely do it.Because we are only human we remember hurts and want to hurt back but God gives us the power to over come the hurts and can give you a love to take the place of the hurt.
If we hang on to unforgiveness
it is us that get hurt most of all, it can eat away at you robbing your life of all pleasure.
God forgives us everyday how can we not forgive others.
C.M.
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