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* The Prayer, Care and Share (PCS) series is a guide to help you pray and care for others and share your faith in Jesus *
One of the steps in the Prayer, Care & Share (PCS) guide encourages you to pray for God's blessing, love and peace to be on people and places around you and on tasks that you do daily everywhere you go.
The Process of Daily Forgiveness
Scripture: (Matthew 6:12, 14-15).
In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus says, "Forgive us our sins as we forgive others who sin against us." He makes forgiveness a priority by linking our asking Him to forgive us, with our forgiving others. (Matthew 6:11).
Because of what Jesus teaches us in the Bible, I want to encourage you to include those who have wronged you, as you pray for God to bless the people around you.
If a teacher, fellow employee, colleague, supervisor or a family member abuses you for no reason (physically or emotionally), your natural human responses might include fighting back, silently cursing them, or nursing bad thoughts about them.
Jesus gives us an alternative, consisting of two parts: First, forgive the person in your heart. Second, pray God's blessing or peace on the person and situation.
You may experience offenses like these on a random basis, or they might happen regularly (for example, where a husband abuses a wife, or when you are persecuted for your faith). It is difficult enough to forgive and pray when it happens occasionally. When this abuse happens regularly, you should still forgive and pray, but I urge you to also get help and advice from a trusted friend, elder or counselor.
Your PRAY NOW Challenge: "Lord, I pray that You will give me the strength to forgive, and pray Your blessing immediately on anyone who wrongs me today. Let me look on them with Your eyes of love and forgiveness. In the Name of Jesus, Amen."
A Helpful Tip: Sometimes the things that happen to us are so bad and it makes us so angry that we feel we cannot forgive. Think about Jesus' suffering after His arrest, leading up to His death on the cross. He did this to pay the penalty that comes from your and my sin.
One of the steps in the Prayer, Care & Share (PCS) guide encourages you to pray for God's blessing, love and peace to be on people and places around you and on tasks that you do daily everywhere you go.
The Process of Daily Forgiveness
Scripture: (Matthew 6:12, 14-15).
In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus says, "Forgive us our sins as we forgive others who sin against us." He makes forgiveness a priority by linking our asking Him to forgive us, with our forgiving others. (Matthew 6:11).
Because of what Jesus teaches us in the Bible, I want to encourage you to include those who have wronged you, as you pray for God to bless the people around you.
If a teacher, fellow employee, colleague, supervisor or a family member abuses you for no reason (physically or emotionally), your natural human responses might include fighting back, silently cursing them, or nursing bad thoughts about them.
Jesus gives us an alternative, consisting of two parts: First, forgive the person in your heart. Second, pray God's blessing or peace on the person and situation.
You may experience offenses like these on a random basis, or they might happen regularly (for example, where a husband abuses a wife, or when you are persecuted for your faith). It is difficult enough to forgive and pray when it happens occasionally. When this abuse happens regularly, you should still forgive and pray, but I urge you to also get help and advice from a trusted friend, elder or counselor.
Your PRAY NOW Challenge: "Lord, I pray that You will give me the strength to forgive, and pray Your blessing immediately on anyone who wrongs me today. Let me look on them with Your eyes of love and forgiveness. In the Name of Jesus, Amen."
A Helpful Tip: Sometimes the things that happen to us are so bad and it makes us so angry that we feel we cannot forgive. Think about Jesus' suffering after His arrest, leading up to His death on the cross. He did this to pay the penalty that comes from your and my sin.