Dear One,
Forgive means to release. So to release the past from your memory means to forgive the past. That is really not a hard thing to do when you consider that nothing can be done to change the past except to forgive offenses from the past and release them. When you do that, then the events and the offending people have no control over you, only if you let them back in by reliving the offenses.
People talk about fearing "ghosts from the past." Actually there is a truth to that saying because you give life to the past by reliving it in your mind. When you relive it, you actually invite the demonic spirits who were responsible for the offence to revisit you, bringing their same devastation back into your life.
However, when you forgive everything from the past, you refuse to resuscitate the enemy spirits, shutting the door on their ability to minister their destructive temptations and activities again, and they can't trap you again by causing you to relive the past and relive the hurts again and again.
Forgive the people and refuse to go back and relive damaging events from the past. It is sadistic when you continue to injure yourself by reliving unpleasant events. The person who originally instigated the offense is responsible for the first time, but when you relive it you are responsible for each successive time by reliving it
People often say to bury the past. That is an appropriate saying because you only bury the dead, so if you forgive and release the past you are deeming it dead. Don't resurrect the dead past with its devastation.
Forget all that is past and look with eager expectation to your wonderful future, keeping your eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith who is building you a wonderful future, full of blessings.
Love, God
Matthew 6:12-15; Matthew 18:21-22; Mark 11:25-26; Philippians 3:13-15; Psalm 30:11-12.
Forgive means to release. So to release the past from your memory means to forgive the past. That is really not a hard thing to do when you consider that nothing can be done to change the past except to forgive offenses from the past and release them. When you do that, then the events and the offending people have no control over you, only if you let them back in by reliving the offenses.
People talk about fearing "ghosts from the past." Actually there is a truth to that saying because you give life to the past by reliving it in your mind. When you relive it, you actually invite the demonic spirits who were responsible for the offence to revisit you, bringing their same devastation back into your life.
However, when you forgive everything from the past, you refuse to resuscitate the enemy spirits, shutting the door on their ability to minister their destructive temptations and activities again, and they can't trap you again by causing you to relive the past and relive the hurts again and again.
Forgive the people and refuse to go back and relive damaging events from the past. It is sadistic when you continue to injure yourself by reliving unpleasant events. The person who originally instigated the offense is responsible for the first time, but when you relive it you are responsible for each successive time by reliving it
People often say to bury the past. That is an appropriate saying because you only bury the dead, so if you forgive and release the past you are deeming it dead. Don't resurrect the dead past with its devastation.
Forget all that is past and look with eager expectation to your wonderful future, keeping your eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith who is building you a wonderful future, full of blessings.
Love, God
Matthew 6:12-15; Matthew 18:21-22; Mark 11:25-26; Philippians 3:13-15; Psalm 30:11-12.
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