How can you forget something negative that's stuck in your mind?

The Bible says God remembers our sins no more. 

So how can God forget something when He is omniscient?

How can He know everything and still forget?

When you forgive and forget, the forgetting means that you, 

just like God, don't hold that wrongdoing to the offender's account.

God forgets the charge against us; He remembers it no more.

Oh, He knows about it, just as you do, but He will never bring it up again. 

That's what we are to do.

Don't let the sea of forgetfulness have you fishing in the past.

Leave it there. Live in the present moment…and forgive.

 

When it comes to forgiveness,

because of Jesus, we can now look at things the way He did.

We should never say,

How can I forgive them? But rather...

How can I not forgive them?

Especially in the light of everything that I have been forgiven

 

Jesus last words on the cross were..."forgive them, they know not what they do."

We can disagree with Jesus, and say...

Yes, they did...They knew exactly what they were doing.

Even if they did it on purpose, the reason for why they did it,

is still often not realized... and the why is never discerned correctly. 

 

The why is not realized because they just cooperated with the enemy... and they didn't know it.

Most people don't know why they do what they do.

Maybe that person wanted to do what they did because it felt good to get even.

We need to go beyond the surface.

 

We have to ask ourselves, why did it feel good to get even?.. when that is never GOD's way.

God is good, and His ways are good, and nothing else is really good.

That is what the scripture means that says, "No one is good but God."

God created Adam and Eve good and even declared ...it was good.

But when they sinned...nothing was good like before. 

 

We can be restored from what was lost in the garden...but our goodness will never be derived

from where it began before sin entered into the picture.

Sin that is inherited from Adam and Eve, our original parents...is always a part of us.

We are born with it and it is inherited from our forefathers.

We are no longer good...and we cannot find our good in anything else but the goodness of Christ.

He redeemed us, but He didn't make us good...again.

He became our goodness.

 

So those feelings were not good and they didn't originate from us.

What we may have enjoyed... was programming from the fall that makes us

tempted  and susceptible to its desire.

We have been trained by the enemy to think they are just a part of life.

But they were straight from Satan and His kingdom.

 

The good feeling that was the wrong feeling... was there to reinforce the wrong decision.

Satan can appear one way and make you like something that GOD hates...and it can feel good.

That is why the Bible tells us not to go by our feelings.

We all have them, but we do not need to yield to them.

Believe it or not ...it is just a choice you make...either you will or either you won't.

The ball is in your court. 

Embrace the Word of GOD and not emotions,

spur of the moment feelings, and everything that goes with it.

 

When we become offended, accept someone's rejection, want to retaliate,

let our heart be hardened and become bitter and angry,

we are just looking at ourselves and what we think we need.

It is so self-focused because if the enemy can get you to focus on self...He is controlling you.  

Satan's thoughts in you will blame others for  the wrong thing for it happened.

It becomes… all about me when we refuse to forgive.

Jesus knows everything about everyone, and He was still willing to forgive.

Jesus never gave a thought to why they were doing what they were doing.

He didn't expect them to not do it...He even said,

 

John 2:24-25 KJV

"Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, in the feast day, many believed in His name,

when they saw the miracles which He did.

But Jesus did commit Himself unto them [trust, rely on, accept their behavior],

because He knew all men [what was operating and flowing out of mankind and that it was not them that was speaking and acting, but sin that dwelled within.]"

Jesus only put His expectation in God.

We should do the same. 

 

People are just people. Even those that are born again or in ministry, pastors, teachers,

those that love the Lord, those that are supposed to love us,

often allow things to flow through them that

are very destructive and damaging. 

 

It is the case of the husband beating his wife and then apologizes later,

someone lying because of fear, hating ourselves because of something someone did or did not do,

letting other's opinions of us mater more than God's, finding our worth and value in what good things people say about us... and the list goes on.

 

I have seen, that the things that are in people when they are confronted will them,

if they are not willing to see it and take responsibility for it,

will cause them to project that very thing on someone else.

It is the old saying...

we sometimes accuse others of what we are guilty of ourselves.

 

God wants us to be free from all of the above and anything else that has the potential to

cause us to not forgive.

 

And what about asking others to forgive us....

We do the very things we often accuse others of doing.

Jesus says, "If we will not forgive...we cannot be forgiven ourselves."

We can actually practice forgiving others with GOD's help

so that it actually becomes a way of life. How?

You just forgive.

Why not?

 

We can only forgive others if we have a good healthy...fear of the LORD.

We should fear GOD more than we fear anything else.

Actually, a good fear of GOD...will keep you humble,

make you think twice before you just do something and then say I will repent later....

(repentance is a gift from God that is inspired by God to influence our heart to want to repent...)

If we abuse the privilege...

the ability to forgive may no longer be something that GOD gives grace to accomplish.

It may lead into a season of the enemy

having access to us through the door we opened

called bitterness. 

 

GOD may not hear because you didn't hear Him...be careful of how you

use God's goodness to postpone what GOD wants you to deal with now....

Forgiveness issues are always a something God would have us deal with immediately.

We should so reverence God that to disregard His commandment to forgive

puts a righteous fear in us.

 

Zechariah 7:13 KJV

"Therefore it is come to pass, that as He cried and they would not hear; so they cried,

and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts..."

Why hold onto sin and let it produce disease...in YOU...not the other person?

We are the ones that reap the things we sow...sow forgiveness so you can reap forgiveness.

We all need to be forgiven. 

 

When you make a decision to forgive,  your focus shifts.  

 

When you choose to not think about  the offense by  choosing not be offended

 and then choosing not  remember it no more, 

your decision brings GOD on the scene on your behalf.

Your choice produces a ripple effect in the spirit realm...

many good and amazing  things are put in motion from the choice you made 

to agree with GOD.

 

When we do what  GOD tells us to do,

you have stopped all forward progress of the enemy in your life to keep you in bondage.

Unforgiveness is  the number one disease maker... just the unwillingness to forgive.

 

As you give everything that happened to GOD,  by doing this, 

you are letting GOD move on  your behalf...

and GOD can move on the other person's  behalf as well...

Then remembering what happened will not take you down the wrong path.

When you develop this response....

  you will never be caught off-guard.

 

I am no longer surprised at what people do.

Because I understand and don't expect them to do it right...Jesus didn't expect them to  either.

He was actually a surprised when they did get it right.

Because my expectation is in GOD...and so is my worth and value,

I can love them freely without needing their acceptance.

I can love them without being offended by them. It is such a freeing place to just let it go.

Forgiving is for your benefit… more so than it is for theirs.

But it is for their benefit too.

 

"Sin that is retained is retained... sin that is remitted is remitted." John 20:23 KJV

Retaining sin shows up as disease.

A willingness not to forgive, becomes a place where we can no longer be forgiven ourselves...

We can't be forgiven until we decide to forgive, change, and repent.

 

When you retain someone else's sin...what they did and refuse to let it go...

you are retaining the offense in your own body...and it is as though we are holding on to it.

God can't begin to actually rectify the situation that we may be wanting resolved...

because we haven't given it to Him...we are being our own god when we refuse to obey GOD. 

 

If we allow ourselves to be a conduit that yields to the enemy’s thoughts,

rather than to God who says give no thought...and heed not, 

we will always be struggling with the actions and words of other people. 

 

But we can become so rooted and grounded in GOD...we actually live in a place of immunity to evil.

God says everything will come to the light...everything will be revealed and made known.

So then don't defend yourself...just make sure you ask for the forgiveness of others when you

are the one at fault. If there is a misunderstanding, try to fix it...go to them.

Repent and say I am sorry and ask their forgiveness.

They may not hear you … but GOD heard you...and He knows you forgave and you did your part.

 

If you deal with your part of the equation, God can take care of the other part.

God will not hold you accountable for someone else's choices....just your own.

 

Remember it is never about what someone did...

but what you do...with what they  did...that matters to GOD.

 

Forgive others instantly.

Forgiving others is a state of being,  where we are willing to always obey GOD.

A place where your choice is just an automatic decision... and nothing more.

 

 

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