August 22, 2016
There’s nothing more practical and predictable than faith in God’s Word. It always produces dependable, consistent results. When it doesn’t, it’s because there’s a problem somewhere, and often the problem is unforgiveness. If you want to receive what you’re believing God for, always be quick to forgive. Here are some points to help you:
- Forgiveness is a vital part of the prayer of faith. Mark 11:25: “And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
- Forgiveness is an expression of love. Galatians 5:6: “…faith…worketh by love.”
- Forgiveness isn’t optional, it’s a New Testament command. John 14:21: “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”
- God will help you become willing to forgive. Philippians 2:13: “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
- The divine power behind forgiveness is also the power that heals. Mark 2:10-11: “But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.”
