Healing the Hurts of the Past

PLEASE READ Genesis Chapters 32 & 33

1. Sometimes it is more difficult to be forgiven than it is to forgive.
2. Accepting forgiveness requires deep humility and enormous courage.
3. As long as we live in fear, we can neither forgive nor be forgiven.
4. Healing begins when we confess our sins and accept God’s forgiveness.

Is healing possible? Yes.

Is it difficult? Yes.

Will it change the past? No.

What will forgiveness do? It sets us free from the past so we can move into the future.

What’s the hardest part about being forgiven? Believing that forgiveness is possible.

Too many people are chained to the past, and the jailer’s name is Fear. 

Good news! YESHUA has the key that opens the door to freedom. If you are willing to be forgiven, YESHUA can set you free.

Question: Are you willing to be forgiven? Until the answer is yes, you will stay chained to the past. But when you are willing both to forgive and to be forgiven, the healing can begin.

PRAYER:

AVINI MALCHEINU, we desperately need the ministry of your Holy Spirit right now. Some of us are literally scared to death of forgiveness—too scared to forgive, too guilty to be forgiven. We would rather stay as we are than risk being rejected one more time. We’d rather be guilty than be forgiven. God forgive us for choosing to live chained to the past. Grant courage and deep humility both to forgive and to be forgiven. May the walls that separate us come tumbling down by the power of YESHUA’S love. Amen.