Your Daily Breadcrumb

It is my hope that these little bits will leave you wanting more.

Matthew 5:14 “But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

Psalm 34:13-14 “Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it.

James 1:19-21 “… let every person by quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God, Therefor put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

-There are two quotes I’d like to talk about this morning. These two recently have been playing on my mind almost every day since I read them and I feel like they fit with theses scriptures.

1. “Healing is when you stop telling the story that broke you and start living the story that rebuilt you.”

Sometimes it’s hard, to rewrite your brain, to stop the feeling like you have to explain the hurt for someone to understand where you’re coming from. But judgment should be left to God, for God is the only option that really matters, He has been there through it all. He has seen the hurt and pain. You get to lay it down at his feet and move on to living the life He has planned for you.

• Pastor Devin Webb, “God doesn’t cause the pain, but he will use it

-Sitting here now, after years, I am able to look back at my life and see all the puzzle pieces fitting together to mold me into the person I am today.

2. “Every time you think about it, forgive again.”

-forgiveness is hard, holding on to the hurt and anger feels so much easier. Right? But this is not how God wants us to live. So many times in scripture it talks about being slow to anger and to forgive. News flash everyone but forgiveness, isn’t an option.

Matthew 6:14-15 “For if you forgive others their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you; bud if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”

-this teaches us that God’s Forgiveness is linked to our willingness to forgive others.

-I’m not saying this part is easy, because it’s hard, we are humans. But if that scripture doesn’t help let’s look at it in a way that’s not word for word in the Bible.

-Forgiveness isn’t always about them, it’s about you, holding on to that poisons you in the long run hardening your hears. Holding on to anger, resentment, and hurt, is like drinking the poison and hoping the other person is affected. We all know two and two doesn’t add up there and that the other person is going to feel nothing. You’re hurting yourself, you’re hardening your own heart due to others.

Proverbs 4:23 “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”

-Don’t let others be the reason you hold on to so much anger in your life that it hardens you to loving others. It’s okay to walk away from people that cause you pain, but it’s not okay for you not to forgive them.

-I am a people pleaser through and through, and something that I struggled with for a very long time was the thought of forgiveness. This always brought up more questions than answers. “If I forgive them, that means that they are going to still be in my life, and they will continue to do the same thing over and over again? They are going to continue causing the hurt.” Till one day I found an answer.

-I attended a breakthrough conference help by pastor Deven Webb in Tennessee. Where I learned that forgiveness doesn’t mean reconciliation. The goal of forgiveness is the internal freedom of the offended party from bitterness. The goal of reconciliation is the restoration of the relationship and trust.

-Now maybe I am wrong but we each have our own views on life, our own feelings, and I always say to each person live their own life, but I know God doesn’t want us to be unhappy and allow people to walk over us. But I also believe that He doesn’t want us to live in anger or be yoked with people that don’t have have the same beliefs and interest as us.

-Forgive for yourself, lay the hurt at God’s feet and let him do the work. Pray for them, pray for healing.

-I will always tell people that, “the only person who is going to look out for your own piece of mind is yourself, so you have to take the steps to protect it from others.”