How To Forgive

Forgive!???!!! How can I? As a Christian, how can I not? But I don’t know how to forgive. You’re asking too much of me, Lord. I just want to run away, protect myself from further damage. I am so angry, confused, and hurt.

EXAMINE WHAT YOU BELIEVE… (and what you fear)

Many of us are afraid to forgive because of the misinformation we receive and believe about forgiveness. The two clichés “forgive and forget” and “turn the other cheek” seem impossible under the circumstances in which we find ourselves.

Renew your mind about the purpose of your heart-breaking circumstances, so you choose not to run from them but embrace them in a new way. Through your painful situation, God by His Spirit is beckoning you to run to Him. He is waiting for you to go deeper into your spiritual walk with Him.

How will you respond?

RENEW YOUR MIND

I encourage you to take a step toward Him by renewing your mind with the Word of God.

To examine the process of growth through which you will learn how to forgive genuinely—releasing you to love powerfully, strengthening your inner being, and polishing your Christian testimony—continue with these articles:

1. Love and forgiveness are bound together.
   Be prepared to forgive.
   • Your Christian Testimony and Forgiveness

   • Christian Depression and Forgiveness

   • Propitiation and Forgiveness

   • Old Testament Law and Forgiveness

   • New Testament Love and Forgiveness

2. Agape love opens the door to reconciliation.

3. Reconciling forgiveness is conditional upon repentance.

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