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(06/15/2000) when to forgive?


Hello prayer warriors, 1. Prayer Note: when to forgive? [Ephesians 4:26-27] 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 Neither give place to the devil. We get offended easily. People disappoint us, say the wrong thing, didn't do something, didn't stand on our side, etc. It can be something that they did or something that they didn't do. When should we forgive? I remember a story that one of my pastors told. Imagine this. You go into a nice Italian restaurant and order spaghetti marinara. The waiter comes carrying a steaming plate of spaghetti. He trips and tips the whole plate of spaghetti over your head. Now, you have strings of spaghetti and a number of clam shells and prawns on your hair. You go home and what is the first thing you would do? I'm sure all of us would wash the sphaghetti away, along with all the nice sauces and the wonderful seafood that is clinging to our hair. Who would go to bed with these things? This is a great analogy for us when it comes to our wrath or bitterness or anger. We have to bring all these before God and wash these things out of our system before we go to bed. Don't sleep with unforgiveness in your heart. Why is this such good advice? Because if we do this, we are not letting unforgiveness or bitterness take root in our lives. [Hebrews 12:14-15] 14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; If these are just seeds that have fallen onto our heads, we can just pick the seeds up and remove them easily. But if we nurture them, water them, we give place to the devil to make our lives his playing field. The seeds will take root and a tree will eventuallygrow and when that happens, it will be much more painful to remove a root or a tree than it is to remove a seed. So every night before we go to bed, make a checklist of everyone who has offended us for the day and say "Lord, I forgive." Instead of anger or wrath, take one verse of His Word of encouragement and carry the Word with us to bed. Let our spirit man take into our being the refreshing Word of God and His peace and let us not give the devil a foothold into our lives. 2. New prayer requests: i. Prayer for my life -- vassel of honor i would you to pray for me,God is changing me, dealing with me everyday, but i can not control my mind,i have always bad thought and doubt when I hear a phrophecy for me or for other but i know that my God is able to do everything. I'm oppressed in my mind. And pray for me because the immigration takes long to give me my citizenship. And i need a financial blessings. I want to know the Lord as never before, to be his best friend like Abraham was. but it's so difficult because i can not control my mind, my heart Please, Pray for me. i want to be the woman of god's heart like David. I promised God to do my best but i need you to pray for me. -- G.K.E.G.K. http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=199&table=prayer&reptable=replies 3. Praise Report: i. Praise Report on healing -- lauriemwalker I've enjoyed reading the prayer emails! I've been praying, too! I just read the one about healing. I was thinking when I read it that I'd respond with a praise to the Lord! My boyfriend has recently been called to preach, and the devil was really working on him because he has really bad knees. Monday night the youth at church had prayer meeting, and we all prayed for his knees. He was healed! Thank God! God is still in the healing business if only we believe! Now, he can work, run, walk, and do anything with perfect knees. Before, he was in pain with each step he took. Thank you Lord! The service was so good that we came back the next night, and he preached his first sermon. The Lord really blessed his saints and moved! Thank God! http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=200&table=prayer&reptable=replies 4. Continue to pray for: i. Hopes and Dreams Part II -- susankayphillips Continue to lift susie and her husband up that God will grant them a wonderful child soon and for both of them to continue in faith to believe for this child. ii. Pray for Roger's father -- waihun Continue to pray for Roger's father. He is still missing. 5. Number of prayer warriors: 251 We welcome andre, crjstl, celeste and tinaagarrison into our prayer group. I've removed two persons from the prayer list because their emails are invalid. in Christ the Lord, we place our trust waihun
Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:58:33 PM waihun

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