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(06/19/2000) to forgive, but to forget?


Hello prayer warriors, 1. Prayer note: to forgive, but to forget? [Isaiah 54:4-6] 4 "Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood. 5 For your Maker is your husband-- the LORD Almighty is his name-- the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth. 6 The LORD will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit-- a wife who married young, only to be rejected," says your God. I've heard time and again that the deepest hurt is rejection. I think this is true. One of the last things that Jesus suffered was rejection, when He cried out to our Father in heaven and said, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" [Matthew 27:46]. God the Father turned His face away when Jesus took all the sins on Himself and He rejected Him on the Cross so that we can be accepted. Some people say you have not forgiven until you have forgotten. Do you think that is true? How many people can forget? Can you forget the 10 years of your life with a husband who deserted you? Can you forget your childhood years when your parent rejected you? What does the Bible say about this? (God is a God of coincidence. I felt led to talk about this subject in the prayer emails and my pastor just preached a whole message on unforgiveness yesterday.) God did not say that we will forget the events but He did say that we will forget the shame of our youth and the reproach of our widowhood. We will not forget the events but we will forget the hurts, we will forget the damage. I don't think that this forgetting is wiping things away from our memories. When God heals us, we remember but we don't feel the tinge of rejection anymore or the damage of the hurt anymore. [Genesis 41:51-52] 51 Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, "It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household." 52 The second son he named Ephraim and said, "It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering." Joseph called his first child Manasseh which means "God has made me forget" (Easton's Bible dictionary). He called his second child Ephraim which means double fruitfulness. Joseph did not forget the events but he forgot the trouble and the hurt because he knows that the damage is not irrepairable with God. We become bitter because we think that God cannot make things better. When we have a bigger vision of our God, we know that God can make us fruitful in the land of affliction. 2. New prayer requests: i. Pray for my grandfather -- jennifer My grandmother and grandfather got into another fight. As usual, they fight every day. My grandfather is diabetic and my grandmother has high blood pressure. I just found out today that he left home for a couple of days. He was nowhere to be found. Well, we found out that he is staying in a waiting room in a hospital. He refuses to come home. I know the Lord is watching over him. But I feel that I need others to pray for him. Pray that he will come home and that God will open up his heart. Being that he is not a Christian. http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=206&table=prayer&reptable=replies ii. husband -- beckster I want prayer for husband's addictions that are tearing us both apart, mainly the internet. http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=208&table=prayer&reptable=replies 3. Continue to pray: i. Pray for Roger's father -- waihun He is still missing. Roger had gotten many people to do a nationwide search and has publicised this in the local papers here but there have been no results. 4. Number of prayer warriors: 258 We welcome jeff m, beckster, ohiogal96, hubcap, dstephen2 and doug2k into our prayer group. Three persons have unsubscribed. Special note of thanks: Thanks for voting for the site. We are back in top 10 of Cross Daily under bible reference and are getting more visitors coming from Cross Daily again. To God be the glory, waihun
Monday, June 19, 2000 12:56:38 AM waihun

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