Deliverance Prayers - Day 37 - FORGIVENESS

Forgiveness is hard to give because it hurts to extend it to undeserving and hard-hearted ones. To release a wrong-doer instead of exacting a just penalty requires that we reach out in love, rejecting the temptation to hold bitterness and resentment. This is contrary to our natural inclinations, thus the old adage,”To err is human, to forgive divine”.

Forgiveness is not forgetting the wrong done; some hurts are so deep that this would be impossible. We can forget the anger and hurt we felt, but the act is branded in our minds. Forgiveness takes place when the victim accepts the loss and/or injury done him and deliberately cancels the debt owed him by the offending person.

Anger must be dealt with openly and honestly, not denied or ignored. Either it must be vented in retaliation or the injured party must accept his own anger, bear the burden of it, and confess it in prayer to release himself and to set the other party free. Revenge always hurts the revenger far more than the one at whom it is leveled.

In other words , our pattern must be the grievous and substitutionary death of Christ. He willingly received all the hurt and evil of the entire human race in His own body on the tree (I Peter 2:21-24) to pay the debt for our guilt.

He now offers what He has wrought as a free gift to undeserving and guilty persons so they can be free (Rom. 6:23; John 10:28-30).

As nothing else will, forgiveness takes us into the mysteries of grace where God forgives unconditionally on the basis of the substitutionary payment by another

(Mark 11:25-26).

One of the fruits of the Holy Spirit’s work in a life is the quality of meekness. It is a quality which is nurtured and abetted by practicing forgiveness.

This highly prized quality will cause us to be able to accept God’s dealings with us as good, without disputing or resisting them. Meekness will also cause us to be able to “bear one another’s burden’s” cheerfully and for Jesus’ sake, enabling us to enter into the mystery of Christ’s sufferings.

Because unforgiveness, and the resentment and bitterness and what it generates is so deadly, it is not optional, but necessary that it be dealt with. Cancer and arthritis spirits definitely root into this fertile ground. To be bitter and unforgiving costs far more than it is worth.

REFERENCES

“Forgiveness”, p. 34, Conquering The Hosts Of Hell, by Win Worley.

LIST OF SCRIPTURE
Psa. 85:2 (Forgiven iniquity and covered sin – God)

Psa. 86:5 (Ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy – God)

Psa. 103:3 & 12 (Forgiveth all & removed as far as east from west – God)

Isa. 1:18 (Sins shall be as white as snow – God)

Isa. 43:25 (Blotteth out and will not remember – God)

Matt. 5:44 (Forgive your enemies.)

Matt. 6:14-15 (Forgive men or not be forgiven by God – man)

Matt. 18:21-35 (Law of Forgiveness – man)

Mark 11:25-26 (Forgive men or not be forgiven by God – man)

Luke 17:3-4 (Rebuke man and forgive seven times a day – man)

Eph. 4:32 (King, tenderhearted, forgiving as God does – man)

Col. 2:13 (Forgiven you all trespasses – God)

Col. 3:12-13 (Mercies, kindness, humbleness, meekness, long-suffering, forbearing and forgiving one another – man)

Heb. 8:12 (Merciful to unrighteous and remember not sins – God)

Heb. 10:17 (Remember not sins and iniquities – God)

I John 1:9 (Confessing, forgiveness, cleansing from unrighteousness)

~Bits and Pieces of the Deliverance Manual by Gene and Earline Moody

PRAYER

Father, in the name of Jesus, I come before You asking You to heal me. It is written that the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if I have committed sins, I will be forgiven. I let go of all unforgiveness, resentment, anger, and bad feelings toward anyone.

My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and I desire to be in good health. I seek the truth that will make me free—both spiritually and naturally (good eating habits, medications if necessary, and appropriate rest and exercise). You bought me with a price, and I desire to glorify You in my body and my spirit—they both belong to You.

Thank You, Father, for sending Your Word to heal me and deliver me from all my destructions. Jesus, You are the Word Who became flesh and dwelt among us. You bore my griefs (pains) and carried my sorrows (sickness). You were pierced through for my transgressions and crushed for my iniquities, the chastening for my well-being fell upon You, and by Your scourging I am healed.

Father, I give attention to Your words and incline my ear to Your sayings. I will not let them depart from my sight, but I will keep them in the midst of my heart, for they are life and health to my whole body.

Father, You pardon all my iniquities; You heal all my diseases; You redeem my life from the pit; You crown me with loving-kindness and compassion; You satisfy my years with good things so that my youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Since the Spirit of Him Who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in me, He Who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to my mortal body through His Spirit Who dwells in me.

Thank You that I will prosper and be in health, even as my soul prospers. Amen.

Scripture References:

James 5:15 nkjv Isaiah 53:4,5 nas

1 Corinthians 6:19,20 Proverbs 4:20-22 nas

John 8:32 Psalm 103:3-5 nas

Psalm 107:20 Romans 8:11 nkjv

John 1:14 3 John 2

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