MY TWO CENTS WORTH
By Myrtle Poor
Greetings from the Sooner State. I have had something on my mind for a few days and with the unction of the Holy Spirit I would like to share it with you.
I will start MY TWO CENTS WORTH today with a question. Do you have ought against anyone? Has someone done something to you that has hurt you so bad that you just can't let it go? You are by it like a dog chewing on a bone. You keeping worrying it over and over in your mind.
The more you think about it the more you get upset and resentful about it. Well, the Bible says to forgive your fellowman 70 times 7 and more. What would "WE" do if we went to the Lord to be saved and the Lord said, "I am sorry on a certain day you hurt me and I can not forgive you. You have broken my heart to many times there is no forgiveness in me. You are doomed to hell." Now that would be bad.
Matthew 6:14-15 says, (vers 14) For if you forgive men their trespasses (sins or wrong deeds) your heavenly Father will also forgive you. (vers 15) But if ye forgive men not their trespasses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive your trespasses.
The Bible says in 1 Timothy 6:6-10, But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
It isn't just having someone owe you money that you should forgive it is many other things as well. It is any hurt someone has done to us.
Unfortunately, many people try to force others who have hurt them to "pay" for their actions. Rather than forgiving them ." Such people try to force others to pay them back. They seek revenge, but the longer you go with this hurt eating at your insides like a cancer growing inside you, the more this hurt grows and the more determined you become not to forgive them.
Pretty soon it becomes as big as wall and it is blocking out all of God's blessing from you. I want you to think about this. Did you know that you can not receive anything from God until you forgive the people that has hurt you?
I will give you an example of what I am talking about. I would not tell you this except I feel the unction of God urging me to relate it to you. So I hope it helps someone. Even though I will relate this to you I will give you no names.
Several years ago I had a friend who was very close to me. I considered them my best friend. We went places together and talked about every thing. I felt they were surely a loyal and good friend. I cherished that friendship, but one day they betrayed me. With a very vicious intent to hurt, they betrayed me. It hurt so bad I thought I would die.
I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. My mind was whirling constantly with this betrayal. Satan fed every bad thing he could into my mind. I could only think of the ways I could get even, but being a person of character not to hold grudges I had, had all I could handle of it, in a couple of days. So I started to pray about it. I lay in my living room floor flat on my face for three days praying for God to help me get over the hurt so I could forgive them or show me what he would have me to do about it.
Well you know what God wanted me to do he wanted me to forgive, but it was so hard to do that. After the third day of fasting and praying about it, the spirit spoke deep within my spirit. The spirit said to call them and try to talk to them. I called them and told them that I wanted to apologize. If there were anything that I had done to hurt them I was sorry.
Well, the person said, "You haven't done thing I just plain don't like you."
The Bible says to anger, but sin not. In that minute I wanted to hit someone so bad it was boiling right up in my mouth. I gritted my teeth, counted to ten and told them that was their choice whither to like me or not. I told them I loved them and would pray for them. They told me not to pray for them they didn't want my prayers. I told them they couldn't stop me from praying for them and I hung up. I had done here what God had told me to do and with doing it, a load was lifted off my shoulders.
I did not know what that person was mad at me about until months later. I heard they got mad at me because the pastor of our church ask me to teach a Sunday school class they wanted.
I didn't want the class, I took it to help the pastor out. If they would have come and talked to me I would have gladly given them the class and a good friendship would still be in tact. As it is they have not spoken to me in all these years.
Don't carry your grudges around for years like they did, but go and talk to them and make it right. If they don't forgive you, you have done what you are suppose to do and God will bless you.
Matthew 6:23 & 24 says, Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the alter and therefore remember that brother hath ought against thee: (vers 24) Leave there thy gift before the alter, and go thy way; first reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
A thought that God just dropped into my mind here is, if we have unforgiveness in our heart even the tithes we bring into His store house is not given correctly and if they are not given correctly then God isn't obligated to bless us.
In your life, you will certainly be presented with situations in which you must choose either to hold a grudge or a heart full of resentment and try to force others to repay you for what they did to you or in which you can simply forgive them. I choose forgiveness for I love to receive the blessings of God and if I bring a gift to God I want him to be able to accept it and bless me in return. TRY FORGIVENESS. You might find it a lot easier than you thought at first. If someone owes you something and you can't collect it, then forgive them.
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