Hi guys, it’s me, Lindy-Ann Hopley from Beautiful Witness Ministries. And I wanna tell you about a word that I think we should use way more in the church. The F word…”Forgive.” Oh, somebody. Listen here. If you wanna be caught up, hook, line, and sinker by the enemy, you gotta harbor them unforgiveness. Okay? When we have unforgiveness in our heart, I’m telling you, it is like the eternal pimple on the inside that is just oozing out. And you do not want that. Believe me. I watch so many people grab onto unforgiveness and they’re holding it in. And guess what? It comes out on everyone else around it.
I’ve seen it in my own life. I remember one time, I was so irritated with everyone, and at one point I was like, “God, what’s wrong with me? Like, what’s going on?” He’s like, “You’ve got unforgiveness.” And it literally is like a seed that gets planted and suddenly these little fruit pops out and it’s like, What’s going on? And I just say, “God, who do I need to forgive?” And He was like, “Your grandma. She called you ‘fat’ at the Christmas table.” I was like, “She did.” And it’s so small and it’s so basic and it’s things that you think, well everyone kind of says that kind of stuff. But you know, it can lodge in us and it can create a problem.
So I wanna encourage you today, if you are seeing fruit popping up in your life’s, especially if it’s a recurring one, sometimes it really is to do with one little seed and one little place of unforgiveness that we’ve gotta take care of. And I simply sit with the Lord and I say, “God, who do I need to forgive?” I don’t think about it, because often, especially as Christians, we got no problems. Mm-hmm, innocent, guilt-free. Yay. But actually, when we sit with the Father, He’ll say, “You know what? You actually still have unforgiveness here.”
So just take a moment and ask Him, “God, is there someone I need to forgive?” And He’ll show you. And maybe you say, “Man, I can’t forgive them.” I was just encouraging a friend recently and he was telling me, “Well I actually want them dead.” And I was like, Okay. We actually also can get caught up in a stronghold of unforgiveness where we actually have to say, “God, I ask you to bind up the strong man of unforgiveness, hatred, and bitterness.”
And I speak that over you right now. If that’s you, we take authority over those demonic principalities trying to ensnare you. And it’s time to use the F word against the devil and say, “Forgive.” ‘Cause when you forgive, guess what? It’ll totally dislodge him and all his authority on your life. And just say, “God, I choose to forgive those people. I release them now.” And maybe it’s gonna come up again and again. But I wanna encourage you. Don’t stop until that word is in full motion and action and you know that you have forgiven and you are free. Freely we have received forgiveness and freely we give it. We don’t deserve it. Neither do they. But we give it as a gift of grace as our Lord and Savior did. I love you and I forgive you. God bless you from me, Lindy-Ann. Bye bye.
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