29/12/2015
*2015 End of Year Message*
Ambassador Alicia M. Liverpool
FORGIVE THE OFFENDER and yourself THE OFFENDED (2 Cor. 2:10).
Life is a constant purification process. If you try to bypass this cleansing process in your thoughts and feelings, you bypass your good. There has to be a release of the old to make way for the new.
As long as you put off this elimination process, you put off results. Because substance does not flow easily into a cluttered, crowded, bitter-filled emotional state.
We're nearing the end of 2015. Now is a good time to "purge your conscience from dead works" (Heb. 9:14) and "leave the discussion" (Heb. 6:1) of those things that offended you. You've got to let it go.
Take a moment and read 2 Cor. 2:9-10. It says, "God puts us to the test to see whether we are obedient in ALL things...including forgiving the offender. Check this:
"Now, whom you forgive anything, I also forgive...".
What? Yes, you read it. When you forgive them, God forgives them. Deep!!!!
And here's even more reason why you gotta release them. "Lest Satan should take advantage of US" (v. 11). Unforgiveness gives the enemy legal right to take advantage of every one involved. Ah!
God does not violate His order. He says, " on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive" (v. 7). On. The. Contrary. Because forgiveness is not the first choice in many instances. You go "contrary" to human nature when you quickly forgive.
Now, that you've read the above, you should be willing to affirm this forgiveness treatment:
"ALL THAT HAS OFFENDED ME, I FORGIVE. WITHIN AND WITHOUT, I FORGIVE. THINGS PAST, THINGS PRESENT, THINGS FUTURE, I FORGIVE. I FORGIVE EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE WHO CAN POSSIBLY NEED FORGIVENESS IN MY PAST AND PRESENT. I AM FREE, AND ALL OTHERS ARE FREE, TOO."
You are now positioned to let the inflow and outflow of everything in your life be established in Divine Order. -- Amb-AML