Scripture Reading: Lamentation 3:22-24

“It is because of the Lord’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, Because His [tender] compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great and beyond measure is Your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion and my inheritance,” says my soul; “Therefore I have hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him.”(AMP)

Continuation from where I stopped yesterday. When we get saved, we no longer identify with the devil, but with Jesus our Savior. We change camps to God’s team. In order words, if you don’t renounce that old identity, you may not know it, but you are saying, Lord, I am professing you, but I don’t possess you, because I am still firmly in the devil’s camp. And being in the devil’s camp means dwelling on your past while Forgetting your past releases your future.

God’s grace and mercy are new every day:

Go back to today’s scripture in Lamentations 3: 22-24 that says the mercies of the Lord are new everyday but this Bible passage will only work in your life if you are a new creation by the renewing of your mind. If you keep on living in your old says, you may not be able to partake of this newness of his mercies. Matt 9:17 tells us that “old wines should not be poured into old wineskins, otherwise the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved”. You need to move in line with his grace and allowing the past to creep into your today will hurt your future and keep you out of line with the move of God. “God says he will be merciful to our unrighteousness and our sins and lawless deeds he will remember no more.”

Forgiving has to do with forgetting, you can’t forgive if you don’t forget the past

Forgetting and forgiveness go hand in glove, whether it is forgiving yourself or others. When we forgive, we must forget. Forgiving and forgetting position you to receive God’s best and move to the next level of God’s favour. As a true believer, you need to forgive the person who has wronged you. In Luke 17 the apostles asked Jesus to increase their faith so they could forgive the way he expected them to. This tells us that you can’t forgive without faith. To forgive by faith means you are doing it because the word of God says so, regardless of how you feel. This is not a matter of how you feel; this is a matter of what God’s word says.

When you don’t forgive, you are living in the past and you block the power of God from operating in your life. Not forgiving means you are dwelling firmly in the past. Healing, deliverance, favor and financial breakthrough are hindered when you hold unforgiveness in your heart. If you haven’t forgotten about a particular offense, you probably haven’t truly forgiven the person who committed the offence against you from your heart. You must forgive others as God has forgiven you. Remember the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6: “forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” You are telling God that you have forgiven others and that you are ready to receive forgiveness from God. This is a condition that must be met before our sins can be forgiven. Paul was able to obtain grace and mercy for the things he did in his past because he let go of his past. To be continue tomorrow morning by God’s Grace. Good morning and happy Sunday, peace.

Prayer point: LORD Jesus, increase the level of my faith so as to forgive easily and forget my past in Jesus Christ name. Amen!

              T.S. AFOLAYAN

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