Let it go!

Holding onto unforgiveness is like drinking poison hoping the other person will die.

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Doesn’t make much sense right?

You can’t get what you don’t give. That’s a spiritual principle. If you won’t give forgiveness you can’t get it. You will get what you give. Forgive.

Holding onto unforgiveness blocks you from getting forgiveness from God. He told a parable about the servant who had been forgiven a large debt and then turned around and demanded payment of a small debt from someone. Forgiveness is crucial to your Christian life.

Unforgiveness can give the enemy an open door to torture you. Torturing demons aren’t just for the afterlife. They are here and now. They give you horrible thoughts that you can’t shake. They replay past events. They hide in things from the past that you haven’t brought into the Light and given forgiveness for. Clean out your closets Christians. Get it all out into the open. Confess everything to your fellow brothers and sisters so the secrets will lose power.

Don’t want to? Well, that’s your choice, but the misery you feel about this now pales in comparison to the agony you will feel about it in your afterlife. A real heart knowledge Christian lays everything at the cross and says to God, “here it’s all yours.” None of the bag we are holding onto is worth holding onto! Let it go!

Any time you say “I will never____ because____” you are likely dealing with an inner vow which becomes a bitter root judgement. Ask the Lord to show you your bitter root judgements, then repent and confess them to the Lord. Choose to forgive those who hurt you and speak those names to God. Ask God to forgive you for believing a lie. Choose to forgive yourself for making these judgements. Ask God to reveal His truth for the situation. Truth always lines up with God’s word. Ask Jesus to heal your heart from the trauma that caused this bitter root judgement.

When you make a vow from a place of hurt, anger and bitterness it’s not good. You are telling God I got this instead of relying on the Holy Spirit. The walls we put up work against us.

33“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’ 34But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, 35or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. 36And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. 37Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.^g

Matthew 5

If you don’t forgive, you can develop a bitter root expectation. You make a judgement on a person and make an inner vow not to be like that, but it backfires. You become like that person AND you block the Father’s love relationship.

Like the Princess in Frozen, toss it away from you. You don’t need to carry that burden any more. Jesus came to set you free from sin and guilt. He who the Son sets free is free indeed.

God is delighted to bring healing to our hearts and souls. He delights in total honesty.