Power of Forgiveness
We may not be able to choose what happen to us but we can choose what?
How we will respond
One of the basic deceptions and most effective traps of the enemy is to cause people to confuse his work with what?
God's will
Before we can talk about how to forgive others, we must understand what?
The depth to which God has forgiven us!
God's forgiveness toward us in intertwined with what?
Our forgiveness of others
Forgiveness is literally the power to overcome what?
What the enemy meant for harm.
What percent of oysters have an irritant or obstruction lodged inside of them to produce a pearl?
50%
You have permission to be ______. You have permission to ____ ____ ______ _________.
angry & ask the hard questions
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
Name this verse.
"For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."
Hebrews 8:12
Sometimes we resist forgiveness because it can feel as if we are saying what?
That what happened to us was okay.
Hurt people _______ ________.
hurt people
We have an inner ability to respond to pain, hurt, offense, trauma, and abuse that will cause these violations to halt their destructive path on the inside os us; what is it called?
Forgiveness
God never authors ______.
The enemy never authors _____.
Evil & good
We may feel ______ and ______ in the process of forgiving ourselves and laying our past before God.
exposed & vulnerable
Forgiveness is not the same as ___________.
reconciliation
When you forgive, you do what Jesus did and _______ _______ _________.
gain ultimate freedom
The level of damage we sustain is not dependent on the severity of the offense; is is dependent on what?
Our response to it.
God is not _____, ________, or _______ by your anger or questions.
Offended, put off, or disappointed
The enemy cannot make _______ what God has made ______.
unclean & clean
*DAILY DOUBLE*
What verse is this?
"You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives."
Genesis 50:20
Forgiveness opens the door to _________ and ________ for you and those around you.
To choose not to forgive is to choose to allow _____ and ______ to slowly kill you from the inside out.
bitterness & resentment
The good news is that God did not abandon us to this ______.
heartache
He tells us that in Christ, we are _______, ________, and ______ !
forgiven, free, and pure
If we wait until we feel like forgiving what will happen?
It may never happen.
Living in love is what living in ________ ___ ___ ______.
freedom is all about.