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11.15.22 Let Go
Did you know that the Cross is all about letting go? God the Father is all about letting go? A majority of counseling and life issues are all about letting go? All of these statements are true and once we can take in the reality of these truths, our lives will become more internally peaceful and stable.
One extremely important verse in the Bible concerning this is found in Matthew 6:14-15 :
"IF you forgive men when they sin (offend) you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins (offenses), your Father (in heaven) will not forgive your sins."
Ephesians 4:32 "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you."
Colossians 3:13 "Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord for gave you."
Forgiveness does not mean we forget but that we let go of the "right" to hang onto the offense and to get even. Forgiveness does not always mean this person who offended you is safe for you to be around but it does mean you let go of wishing any evil will upon them or that you continue to talk bad about them. Let go and let God deal with them. Think about it. Each and everyone of us has wronged someone at some time in our life, intentionally or unintentionally. And it is a simple fact that we need heavenly Father's forgiveness between us and him every single day. We offend him in our thoughts, our speech, and our actions. I am grateful he sees us through the sacrifice of forgiveness his son Jesus made on the Cross.
Think about it. What kind of life do you want? I want one filled with internal peace and unblocked answers to prayers, with the mercy and goodness of God weaving throughout my spirit and life, no matter what is happening externally.
Check out verses concerning forgiveness towards others, of ourselves, the work on the Cross. You simply cannot love Christ and not be wise to forgive and let go. Lets grow up, become mature in Christ, stop fussing and squabbling and offending. Amen.
-Pastor Sandra Matheson
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Prayer:
Heavenly Father, bring to our remembrance of sacrifice that Jesus went through on the Cross to submit a blood sacrifice for our sins, individually and collectively. Let us be mindful of not taking on any offenses and not putting out any. Help us to remember we are all human and have stressful and bad days, hurts and wounds that cannot be seen, and how we would like to be treated as well. Give us wisdom to know when to truly forgive and to walk away, knowing that person or situation is not healthy for us. We desire to be free and healthy in mind, body, soul, and spirit. Amen www.olivebranchdiscipleshipministries.com
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Seasons and Times
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9.20.13 Seasons and times. We are entering a season of Fall. I look around and I see my fruit tree has dropped all her fruit, my flowers have bloomed and fallen, the leaves of my trees will soon be turning color and falling. Fall has never really been my favorite season of the year, nor is winter. Fall is a season of transformation from life unto death, winter is hibernation and holding. I love Spring and Summer. Spring is the springing forth of life; new fruit, new flowers, new life. Summer is a sense of harvest for me, an expectation of. However, when I think about it beyond myself, I realize Fall is a season in our life of dying to self and casting out a seed. This seed is future and sometimes we even wonder if anything went forth. Winter is a season of life when the seed is hidden from view and we feel that there is no seed and no life. The 'ground' seems hard and unyielding. Spring is the bursting forth of new Life in our life, the expectation of our seed; the seed starts to come through where we may have even forgotten we cast it down. The Summer season of our life brings our harvest from this seed - if we look for it, expect it, 'see' it. Faith. And yet, even in fall there really is a harvest as well. Old self becomes new self. And winter yields a harvest of Faith. So many seasons of our life; so many seasons to cast a seed for Christ, for the Spirit of God to work with. Did you know that without a seed there will never be a harvest of anything? We know this in the natural but I wonder if we really do in the spiritual. Do you cast out good seed for Christ? Or do you cast out seed filled with selfishness, your own agenda, destruction of others? We have the ability to seed for good 'Fruit' or for a crop of 'Thorns and Weeds' and we will reap of harvest of whichever we cast out. What are you seeding for? Like seed grants like harvest. Corn begets corn. To harvest spiritually be must plant the 'seed' of what we have need of - faith, health, finances, joy, patience, love, friendship, respect, etc. Why do we think we can harvest without casting our proper seed? And remember, there is a time, right after we cast our seed, that it seems to go in hiding and the ground of life can seem hard and unyielding. Our seed is being protected and begins to die to become changed into what we need when we need it. You must give God good and proper seed to work with! Then watch over your seed. Water it with Faith and Prayer- waiting, looking, expecting. Pull up the weeds that will appear and try to strangle out the seed. Watch out for those who would discourage you in your seed, or try to steal your harvest. Be active, be bold. Begin to cast out your seeds in Christ of what you have need of and then expect your harvest! - Pastor Sandi ***Be careful you do not seed Thorns! (Proverb 18:20-21) Jeremiah 12:13 International Version They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing. They will bear the shame of their harvest because of the Lord’s fierce anger.” Galatians 6:7-8 New International Version Do not be deceived; God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life (with Him). ............Amen |