How Will You Handle Offense - Dr. James Hughes

the human being loses their will instantly he can't do it for one person if he was going to violate a will he'd have violated adam and eve's in the garden he gave us this ability to choose now our wheels are incredibly powerful and i can show you how powerful they are the god that created the human wheel struggled to control it jesus did not conquer his flesh the first time he prayed he did not conquer it the second time he prayed it was the third time he came back and told those disciples it's over i paid the price it's finished if the god that created the human will struggle to control it folks we're gonna have we're never gonna get it controlled you're gonna work on it every day of your life it's my will that wrecks people's lives it's my choices my decisions nobody forces me if i say bad words to my wife or my children no one made me do it i just chose to do it now christians need a good devil if you didn't have one you'd have nobody to blame for your problem so you've got to blame satan for everything that happens in life the devil made me do it he put words in my mouth he put thoughts in my mind well first of all satan has never possessed a human body he's a fallen angel he is not human and he has absolutely no clue what humans have to deal with he doesn't understand human emotions he's never had a body he doesn't understand lust he doesn't understand passion he doesn't understand sexual desire he don't understand any of those things he's never had a body but the moment i blame him for it i give up my responsibility so that's why we do it if i can blame him then i don't have to take ownership of what i've done or ownership of me and there's nothing i can do about it partly when you make spirits out of things you take humans responsibility away if you make homosexuality a spirit then you take the responsibility of humans away and there's nothing they can do about it it's not a spirit it defies their theory of evolution evolution is the survival of the fittest how do you survive you reproduce that ain't a possibility two men are not gonna generate a kid two women are not gonna generate a kid if all this stuff was genetic it'd been filtered out gene pool generations ago because you can't pass it if you don't have kids see the world don't want you to think they just want you to follow them and they want to feed you a bunch of lies that makes you think all this stuff is okay and so they're feeding your children things that they don't have a clue who they are and they're gonna have to discover that and it's gonna take time for it to be revealed and those are all a bunch of lies i am fearfully and wonderfully created my soul knows that i understand who i am if i'll get honest about it i got to take ownership of me of my actions my behaviors my words people are going to offend me now i've taught this session a few times the first time i taught it i was met in the hallway behind the auditorium on my way out by a young man running across the church hollering my name and when i stopped and i turned around and waited for him when he got close enough to me he said brother hughes god sent me to pray for you but on the way he said don't do it you're just an old man on a soapbox and nothing you have to say is spiritual i preached about a fence and i got offended before i could get out of the building so i know that sometime between now and the next few days i will be offended in a horrible way because every time you preach something god demands you live it so i know offense is going to show up in just a day or two and i'm going to have to live it again and again and again sometimes i get tired of doing it but i just keep being pushed so i have discovered over the 36 years of doing this there is one common issue in every problem people have it's part of your nature i've had the privilege of watching six little kids grow up five of them were females now somebody lied to me because i was told little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice that is one bald face lie they slap each other they bite each other they kick each other they pull each other's hair out they're not nice i've watched them grow up they can say really mean things i don't like you you're not my boss you're not gonna tell me what to do i'm not gonna be your friend no more now they're not talking to each other they're saying that to me there's not words i hear them say to each other these are words they say to papa you're not my boss you can't tell me what to do i don't like you i'm not going to be your friend no more bro i've heard those things many times not once not twice i don't want to exaggerate but it's probably close to 100. you're not born a good person you are not born an angel you don't come with a halo the fact is you show up in this world screaming at everybody in the room and you keep doing that until someone teaches you not to scream anymore you show up full of anger and rage and it shows up on a daily basis you don't show up after delivery and say to parents mom dad i want to get on your time clock what time y'all go to bed what time you get up i i don't want to make your life any more difficult than it is so i'm going to help you to have a good life just just give me some instructions on when i need to act like i need to go to bed and would you like for me to eat or get up is that how you show up no you show up telling everybody it's me and i'm more important than you are when i'm hungry if you don't feed me i will let the neighborhood know you're not doing it it's in us nobody has to teach you how to be a jerk there are no classes necessary you don't have to give them a whiteboard illustration that you do this and if they don't like and i've discovered that all six of them have different versions of fits they don't do it alike they're all different but every last one of them can throw one and they can they wait till they get you in a place where they can embarrass you to do it that's not nice see that's the way i'm born that's what's inside of me what's inside of me is not an angel it's a devil and i can wreck lots of lives by my behavior my words can insult people my words can cause people problems and the common problem i've discovered in every human being is your need for revenge that need is so powerful you will refuse to let it go it's caused by unforgiveness when i refuse to release things it causes me incredible problems this is what jesus is addressing with 12 men and they're not getting the message this lesson was so offensive to those 12 men that they could never talk about it afterwards show me where it's in the book of mark show me where it's in matthew it's not in john it was so irritating to those 12 men that they didn't want to tell nobody else about it it caused them such a problem they had difficulty talk oh peter alludes to it matthew chapter 18 because jesus has done it again but this time he's brought a little child and set the child in their midst and he said whatever you do to them you're doing to me again it'd be better millstone tied about your neck down the seat than to have been one of these little ones but i got a warning for you don't you know that their angels are always in the presence of my father that's plural not singular you got more than one guardian angel according to what jesus said god has assigned angels to children that keep records of what humans do to them you don't think that's serious so jesus is talking about this and peter bless his heart he just had a hard time figuring out everything kind of like us and he gets jesus aside and he says to jesus okay jesus you're doing it again so i just got a question how many times do i have to forgive seven he's using his own words on him seven no peter not seven seventy times seven i can imagine what went through peter's mind would you please make up your mind first it's seven now it's 490. come on let's give me a prank how are we gonna do this anybody got a smartphone divide 24 hours by 490 and multiply it by 60. that's somewhere around every two minutes and 15 seconds 24 hours by 490 times 60. it's somewhere around 2.1 2.2 minutes take six eight hours out of the day sleep two point nine three take eight hours out of the day to sleep divide that number 18 or 16 by 24 multiplied that's less than every two minutes you can't get mad at somebody that often peter don't know what to do he said wait a minute you keep changing everything why do i have to do this because jesus knew the consequences of what happens if you don't he said first of all i want to point out this is not multiple choice this is not what you get to do if you want to this is not something that's optional you don't get to do this because you think well maybe it's something i'd like to do now this is something i ever this is your duty to do you're gonna follow him then you're this is a requirement that comes with saying you're gonna follow him when your family irritates you you're gonna choose not to lash out on them not to hurt them not to wound them by your two-edged sword which is your tongue you're gonna you're gonna choose not to let words become stumbling blocks that tar that torment or torch somebody's life i'm gonna make a choice it goes more than that folks the illustration jesus uses at the end of matthew chapter 18 is about a master who had two servants one of them owning 10 000 talents not talent is a measure of weight it always referred to silver unless it was gold and it was specified so when you talk about a talent it was always in reference to silver so we're talking about 10 000 talons a talent is somewhere between 100 and 135 pounds it's easier to use a hundred to multiply because you just add zeros so if he had owed him 10 000 talents how many pounds of silver is that how many 1 million no one million ounces of silver how many ounces of silver are there in a pound well metal is 12 not like liquid which is 16. so there's 12 ounces to metal so that's 12 million ounces of silver now i was told recently that silver somewhere around 30 bucks an ounce that's 30 bucks an hour how much money is that 360 million dollars that's a pretty good size debt it cost the roman government less than 600 talents a year to operate the entire governmental structure of all of judea what rome spent on soldiers on governors on people that were part of the roman empire that were stationed there was less than 600 talents a year and this guy owes ten thousand how in the world did he accumulate that kind of debt the master says pay me what you owe me and the servant said i don't have it he said put him in prison sell all he has i need my money back and that servant says to his master wait a minute you know i'll pay you back just give me an opportunity and i will return what you give me and the master looked at him said you know what you've been a very profitable servant tell you what i'm going to do i'm going to erase that debt you don't owe one penny it's over the word is jews is off they saying which is the same word in acts 2 38 for a mission of sin i will remove your debt totally off your life your oil penny he leaves in the street he finds a fellow servant that owes him 100 denarii he gets angry takes him by the throat says you pay me what you owe me and that servant said i don't have it now 100 denarii is somewhere around 80 bucks 85 bucks pay me what you owe me he said i don't have it he said put him in prison sell him sell his family sell everything he has i need my debt paid right now other servants saw what he did and they went back to the master and they said to the master that servant you forgave much just put another servant in jail for 85 bucks jesus said the master was enraged he was wroth and he demanded you bring that servant back to me and when the servant returned he said you wicked an unprofitable servant i forgave you much and you forgive so little bind him and put him in prison until he pays the debt what was forgiven was returned if you don't forgive people you will drag your blood your sin out from the blood when it's covered by water and baptism because jesus said and so likewise shall your heavenly father do unto you if you from your heart do not forgive your brother see forgiveness is not optional but i've been to churches where a brother sat over here and another brother said over here and they would not speak to one another and had not talked to each other in 10 years they keep coming to church they try to out shout each other out worship each other but they will have absolutely no contact between one another because they got a grudge and they're not about to let them or talk to them and that will get up walk up this way and this will go that way and they've been doing it for 10 years so it's not the world wreck in your life it's all the dumb things we're doing to each other that we call this part of our family that has the same mom and dad we have jesus said if you want your life changed if your brother trespass against thee rebuke him if he repent forgive him if he does it seven times a day and i heard jay adams describe this one day kind of like this he said what jesus was trying to say is if you're sitting and you got your foot out in the aisle and your brother walks by it's actually blocking it a little bit he can walk around but instead of walking around as he walks by he just stomps it real hard and when he hears you scream really loud he says did i do that i am so sorry please forgive me now to get that interpretation then you have to assume that the word trespass is the same word as the old testament word trespass which means a willful act but it's not it's a martial it's the same word for sin it's good intentions that don't work it's not hurting somebody intentionally it's just doing it by accident you didn't hit the target you aim you didn't hit now part of that statement is incredibly comforting to us and i've noticed that all the things jesus said that we like that's comforting to us we just wrap our arms around we embrace it we'll we'll talk about it on a regular basis and and and we'll let it be part of us but the things he said that's irritating we just act like there's not even in the book he didn't say those things i and i really am not obligated to do it see we we read corinthians and and we read the love chapter and the love chapter tells us that there are limits to love that you only have to love based on limit and the limit is defined by the fact it says that love it suffereth long and is god it also said love is not easily provoked easily oh that's a good one easily if if i don't go up in five minutes or ten minutes or or you push me and and i don't do anything you keep pushing me and you keep pushing me and you keep pushing me there's a limit there's a line you push me across did i get to respond that's not what he said the literal translation says love keeps no record wrong now that's just not right i'm introverted i keep records i'm not an outgoing person that can walk out of one room into another and forget what happened in the room before i got a memory like an elephant you do me wrong i got an inventory i can tell you the day the place and the time you did it now i got to give that up and release it and turn it loose that just don't seem fair to me and i said that to god and his response was james have i ever needed your opinion about anything this is not an arguable question do it but you don't know what they did to me do you know what you did to me how many times have you offended me on a regular basis and drugged yourself to an altar and and ask me to forgive you and i let you go and you are a multiple offender and you're gonna hold a grudge over some little event that took place in your life that didn't even happen the way you think it happened i told you i'm gonna like what i had to say but you're about to not like it even more when i say what i'm about to say see rebuke is one of those comforting words because that implies if i rebuke you severely enough you'll repent and your repentance is defined by how severely i tell you how worthless you are in 2011 which was exactly 400 years after the bible was translated from the greek language in the english language exactly 416 11 a.d we got the first version of the bible in english 400 years exactly i'm sitting in the church and my brother's teaching from this passage of scripture i've got a program on my ipad that allows me to simply touch a word and when i do in the middle of the screen the greek word shows up the transliteration shows up and the definition shows up i don't know why i touched that word i would i wish i had never found it ignorance is bliss if i don't know then i don't have to do nothing about it so i just had to touch it boom it popped up i had cold chills i saw i literally said to god that can't be right surely this is not what you're telling me so i got home from church that night and i went to every greek text i had there's several of them that's available and then i got online and checked all the other greek texts there's several thousand of them to make sure that it's the right word and it's the right word it hasn't been changed the word is a compound word has preposition and a verb the preposition's epping epis positional epi refers to a place or something you do to something else so epi literally means upon on against over my ipad is on this podium it's positional the second part of that word is timeous that's a verb time a o is a noun and time a o literally translates you ready no you're not to value to uncover the value of to discover the value of in incredibly valuable of great price now i've gotta convert it to a verb which means it's action what jesus said to his disciples when that brother stomps on your toe when he walks away you don't make him feel like he's smaller than the dirt he better walk away from you feeling like he's the most valuable person alive now all the air just left this room when your wife irritates you to the point you want to respond in anger jesus said you got to tell her how valuable she is and how important she is in your life it becomes your responsibility at that point you don't dare lash out at her you gotta say honey when's the last time i told you you're the most valuable thing in my life i love you more than you can ever come for him now do you really want to jump up and do that no see you you've got a little ledger that's got everything anybody ever did to you with the date and time they did it and every opportunity you get you drag it out and remind them last week you did it the week before that you did it the week for that you just keep doing it over you're never learning you keep telling me you're not gonna do it again but you've done this is about 592 times oh you know the time you got it marked down and jesus says get rid of your book and nature says no see i'm watching your faces you don't like what i'm saying say i can't read your mind but it shows up here instantly unless you're a sociopath and you can control it so when i say something irritates they say boom it's there and you don't like it because my nature you see the fact of the matter is everything you fall in love with at some point in your life will irritate the fire out of you because it's the opposite of you and you're gonna have to choose to place value on the person who hurts you why because that's what he does to you right here every time you show up here and you made a horrible mistake and you failed miserably and you said jesus i've sinned and and please forgive me and he says okay son here's my blood cover it and you cover it and you get up you don't walk away feeling like you're low life you don't walk away feeling like you're a nobody you have no value you're worthless you're broke you're defecting you can't you don't walk away you walk away feeling like the most valuable person in the world and that's the way he wants us to treat each other now here's what's going to happen to you if you don't now after that first interaction of preaching this sermon now i got to tell you the setting i'm in a singles conference with almost 2 000 attendees singles conference okay singles that means everybody in the group's been offended or they wouldn't be there i got a captive audience i know who i'm dealing with and it was like i set a bomb off in that place i didn't there wasn't a smile in the house they wouldn't even laugh at the funny parts now i can tell you my nature did not like being told you're an old man on a soapbox and nothing you have to say is spiritual my brain was processing boy look at me do i look like i'm 40 would i pass for 50 would i even get in the neighborhood of 60 the bible emphatically declares rebuke not an elder it doesn't give you permission to do it if they're wrong there's no asterisk that gives you permission to violate that principle because you think they're out of line they're going in the wrong direction god set that principle i didn't you didn't he did got a problem with it take it up with him i'm going to tell you what's going to tell you i have have i ever need your opinion about it you'll hear exactly what i heard this is not something we can choose if we don't it will destroy us well i have to be honest i didn't have the nerve to do it again for a long time getting scalded that time that that almost broke me from the habit of even thinking about doing this a second time nine months later i'm i'm in the state of oklahoma the lord just kept pushing that direction and i'm i'm saying no i can't do that you know what happened last time and he just kept pushing no son this is time to do it again i had met a gentleman there the day before whose life had been a total wreck he'd become homeless as a result of his wreck life he had pastored church at one time he wound up an alcoholic sleeping under bridges for over 18 or over eight years life was a total wreck he'd been horribly offended horribly i can't tell you what offense happened to him they'd make you mad if you heard it and that offense caused him to wind up under a bridge eight years later after no telling how many days of being so drunk he didn't know where he was at he finally decided he's sick of that kind of lifestyle and he found the closest church and he showed up made his way on the altar and prayed through i preached this sermon he's the first one out of his he comes straight to the altar but he didn't want to pray he wanted to talk to me he said brother hughes i don't want to offend you but you mispronounce one of the words you read i said i did he said yes you did i said okay what did i mispronounce you called the sycamine tree of sycamore tree i said that's what it says doesn't it he said no read it see our brains work by looking at the beginning of a word the ending of a word and we we don't pay attention once in between if we already know what the word is i knew what a sycamore tree was it's got little balls on it about this big that the cow looked like a waffle ball and we used them in slingshots they'll raise a welt we had war with them when i was a kid i knew what they were the bark peels off on a regular basis and and and i knew what so my brain said sycamore he said it's not sycamore it's sycamine he said the lord took me here on my journey back and i spent eight weeks right here and i could never learn the message and finally it kind of got through maybe i ought to find out he said i kept seeing the sycamore tree and one day i saw what it actually said and when i realized it's not a sycamore tree i asked myself a question what's a sycamine tree i don't have a clue he said brother hughes you need to go find out what a sycamine tree is i said okay got home that night after service call my wife go to my library on the third row is a set of books pull out s and i need you to look up the second one tree she flipped the open ecclesiastical theological dictionary new testament flipped it open the sycamine tree she started reading cold chills came the sycamine tree is indigenous to the middle east it's actually called a black mulberry tree it's the most prolific tree that lives there it is so prolific if you cut a limb off stick it in the ground and water it it'll sprout roots and grow it doesn't need seeds to propagate actually as as the roots spread out a little bit and the roots don't spread out much they'll send up another chute and he'll send up another one and it can create a grove in just a short period of time this tree doesn't spread its roots out it spreads its roots down and those roots will go down into the earth however far is necessary to find the water table so a drought can't kill it weather can't kill it it is the most hardy tree that exists the only way to kill it is to plant it in salt water you can cut it down it'll grow back you can dig the root ball up it'll grow back if you don't pull every root out of the ground and those roots can go hundreds of feet deep if you don't pull every one of them up it's going to come back in a little bit and it'll produce lots of shade because they grow quickly problem is the fruit of the sycamine tree can only be produced in the spring by a influx a swarm of wasp or ass these little bees show up and they light on the the blossom and sting it and that's what pollinates it so as a result of being stung by an ass its fruit is bitter so jesus said if you don't do what i'm telling you you're gonna become a sycamine tree you're gonna you're gonna put deep roots into the ground that's gonna make it almost impossible for you to get up or ever destroy the longer you harbor it the deeper it will grow and the more expansive it becomes so if you keep these things in your life and you just let them cultivate let them grow they're going to start producing multiple growths all over and it won't just be one tree there's going to be hundreds of trees before it's over and that tree is going to start producing fruit that's bitter if you don't get rid of this your life becomes bitter anybody ever heard the hatfields and mccoys that's not a myth it's a true story what was it over a pig that's it they thought someone killed their pig so thou not hundreds died over several generations they kept killing each other because of this root of bitterness that spread from one family to another family to another family to another family and it's you see bitterness just keeps spreading and keeps spreading and keep spreading and keep spreading they don't just contaminate you it contaminates many and it winds up with your your family your children start becoming bitter and they don't know why they're bitter and then it breeds over into other people and and before long there's this brood of bitterness has defied everybody that's around you the tree trunk of this tree is the favorite wood used in the middle east to create a casket so if you don't deal with whatever that issue is and you just let it harbor it'll become the casket they bury you in so the question tonight is is it really worth it is it worth hanging on to feelings about what some and you keep saying but huge you don't understand what they did to me and i'm going to tell you it don't matter because you can't change it you can't fix it you can't do one thing about it you're not going to get a different outcome it is over it's not changing so you're either going to let it define you and become the tree you shade yourself with on a regular basis that has nothing but bitterness your friends come around and your bitterness will spill over on them and and then sometimes you're going to get the point your friends don't want to be around you anymore because all you can do is spew out bitterness and and resentment about everything that's where america america's at right now we are eat up with bitterness and resentment and we've been so mis we've been so abused and and people have taken so much advantage of it and it's on everybody's lips it's time we the church stood up say wait a minute we're going to show the world a different picture we got to quit acting like them and harboring the same feelings in here that they got out there and we got to start showing the world that you know what we need to learn how to forgive people we need to learn how to let people go and we need to get past the junk and quit caring these grudges and things that we're carrying for life that you don't isolate to one person it starts beating over to everybody when you lose your ability to trust it won't stop with the person you don't trust eventually it's going to spill over to the next one the next one the next one the next one and that won't be very long where you don't trust anybody and you you're gonna be afraid of everybody around you and you'll never learn how to smile you'll show up looking like you eat lines because your face is always going to be full of of anger and full of of resentment and bitterness and it's just going to show up and then you're going to complain about being alone that nobody likes you nobody wants to be around you no one wants to have anything to do with you and it's all the result of thinking i have a right to hold on you don't know i can promise you today i've heard stories so bad your story could never compare to the stories i've heard i doubt seriously that anybody in this room has been sold by a mother for money so she can she can supply her drug addiction not once not twice but on a weekly basis be sold by mom to men be beaten so severely that you have a kidney that has never grown to full size because it was injured in childhood by beating the beating's so severe that you've had to have multiple surgeries as an adult for ruptured and bruised discs and and a back that's out of alignment as a result of being beaten by mother abandon on the street as a 13 year old having to eat your meals out of the garbage can at mcdonald's because they throw away good hamburgers every day on a regular basis if they haven't sold in an hour they have to discard them i have our cps records they're over 500 pages thick you want to change your life yes i do you're going to have to forgive mother you know i can't you know what she's done to me then you're going to be trapped in your bitterness the rest of your life you're going to keep having your flashbacks and your nightmares on a regular basis because god can't forgive for you he can forgive everything you did in baptism but what people did to you that's your journey and you got to let them go and you haven't let them go until you can pray jesus prayer on the cross jesus prayer on the cross was father forgive them for they know not what they do forgiveness never happens until you give up all hope of revenge and that includes god you've read the book you know vengeance his mind said the lord so you're going to turn it over to god waiting for god to settle the score when he does you're going to applaud and say oh god's good god's good you didn't forgive you just hold on your grudge if you want to forgive you want your life over you're going to have to pray this prayer jesus take your blood go to mother's lamb's book of life erase this sin and never judge her for what she did to me then and only then have you truly forgiven and that's exactly what jesus said in matthew chapter 18. whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven whatever you loose on earth will be loose in heaven jesus will give you permission to use his blood to erase the sins of people who have perpetrated sin against you but he will never tolerate you stepping into the arena of revenge that's his and it only belongs to him and you'll have to forgive those people who've hurt you but if you'll say jesus take your blood go their lamb's book of life erase this sin never judge them for this act you will be completely free from what they did to you she said i can't do it i said i can't help you are you sure i can't help you you're going to have to let mom go you know what she's done doesn't matter you want out of this you turn mom loose you asked jesus to forgive mom for everything she did to you but i can't it's okay i can't help you but i must later get a phone call i'm ready to do it i said you know what you're gonna have to do don't you yes i know make me a church we met at church it's okay i'm gonna pray for you i know you can't pray and you won't pray the right thing so i'm gonna pray you repeat what i say she said okay jesus take your blood go to mother's lamb's book of life erase this sin she committed against me and never judge her for this hour she couldn't pray she had choked wouldn't come out she struggled for 45 minutes trying to get it out every time she'd try her body her brain would not let her turn it loose finally after 45 minutes of struggle she screamed jesus and when she got his name out it flowed out like a river she asked god to erase things i'd never even heard they weren't even in the record she detailed everything mom ever did to her in her life hey god take this erase that sin erase this sin erase this sin raise this in and about 20 minutes later she finally got to the end of it her face lit up like a light bulb she dumped her feet she started screaming i'm free i'm free i'm free i'm free i'm free i'm free i'm free i'm free i'm free i'm free because the only way you're gonna ever get free in life is to give it up your world says hold it it's it's okay to hold on to it it's not okay to hold on to it it's gonna cause you to become a sycamine tree and you're creating the casket they're gonna bury you in so you've got a choice what was stephen's prayer being stoned father lay not this sin to their church for they know not what they do they didn't ask forgiveness see your world's made you convinced that you have to confront people to get forgiveness and that's a lie they told that satan has reinforced and we have took it in as fact jesus never made any of those statements jesus said if you come to the altar bringing your gift and there remember thy brother has ought against you leave your gift at the altar and first be reconciled to thy brother if my brother has ought against me i'm the predator i am not the victim jesus said you're not welcome at my house if you've offended somebody you go fix the problem you created the altar is at the front door he said don't even come in the house you go to your brother you fix the problem you create then you come and offer your guilt jesus said mark if you stand praying your brother has offended you forgive him now you're the victim getting in somebody's face and telling them you hurt me really bad is an ultimate form of revenge it's called passive aggressive behavior you're being as aggressive as you can possibly be what you're actually saying is you're wagging your little finger in your face and you're saying i'm being a christian here you're not i'm going to heaven you're not you want your life changed then quit listening to the world and start looking at the book you want a different life than what you have give up the junk ask god to remove it all take your blood go to lamb's book of life erase the sin never judge them for what they did then and only then have you truly forgiven please stand gracious father thank you today for your incredible spirit that we have felt today lord i want to thank you first for making this the safest place that there is there's no place as safe as your presence if i ever understand how safe it is and i'll open my heart and let my walls down it gives you an opportunity to walk into my life and start helping me through the healing process so that my life can change and i can become a different person lord jesus you understand every heart and every need you know the offenses that have happened to every person in this place you were there the day it happened you got the record your angels recorded it even though it's been recorded and you have the record if i don't let it go then i'll never be free from what happened jesus i pray your children will feel safe enough tonight to simply pray jesus take me by the hand walk with me through the quarters of my mind to those places i have things locked up that are tormenting me and wrecking my life jesus would you hold my hand as i open doors and would you allow me to take your blood to erase the record of whatever's behind that door so i can be free because i don't want to live tormented any longer would you bring healing into this place right now you declared you had been demanded to heal the broken heart healing our hearts is not an option to you you said it's your duty so jesus would you begin the process of healing broken hearts jesus would you help us to have the courage to forgive those who've hurt us to get out of denial to give up the need for revenge so that you can heal the bruised and brokenness of life and when that happens you'll return to us everything life's told so jesus i pray today that somebody gets a jubilee tonight and they walk away with everything life took for them they won't just get back what life stole your prophecy said for their shame they shall have double and in the land they shall possess the everlasting joy for their shame they shall have double in the land they shall have double jesus would you double whatever life stole from your children today help us to have the courage to give you an invitation to help us with this issue it's bigger than us i can't do it by myself without your hand in my hand i can never walk down this road or take this journey jesus would you take me by the hand walk with me through the corners of my mind take me to those places where things are locked so that i can release them and be whole again and you'll protect me while i open that door and let it up in jesus name he's here right will you stand if you'll open your heart you'll let him he'll help you heal tonight for whatever life has produced he didn't allow it to happen he didn't think you had a flaw that he needed to get out so he let humans do those things to you to get the fly out you lie they happened because humans chose to be evil they made a choice to do it he's here tonight to heal it if you'll let him he won't force you he's not going to tear the door off your heart to get in him he will just stand at the door and knock and when you finally recognize he's there and open the door he'll come in you walk away changed but you got to make a choice tonight would you do that would you entertain his presence he's here would you talk to him not where you stand today would you share with him there's been things that keep coming you have anger you have no idea where it comes from the odds are it's from unforgiveness buried somewhere because of something someone did so ask him today to help you find the answer the source of all those emotions that keep tormenting you and causing you problems they're there and if you'll ask he'll take you he'll show you he'll help you find them very quickly it won't take hours and months or weeks he'll help you get there very quickly and you'll find what you need to open and release so that your life can become whole and you'll be forever healed from this issue that keeps tormenting the healers here but he's waiting on you to respond we bless you today jesus i thank you for being the most compassionate loving father in all the world there's none like you jesus you love me when i don't even know how to show it you love me when i don't even return it your love is from everlasting to everlasting your mercy never dies your gentleness never goes away you never lose your great your your goodness and get angry and seek revenge on my life you just love me so unconditionally lord jesus i pray your children feel safe enough to open their lives to you tonight because your desire is to help them recover from whatever life has produced in jesus name we bless you today he's here worship him one more time god's dealing let's just spend some time in prayer a message like this is incomplete if we don't internalize this let's just spend some time in prayer right now god's dealing with us god's bringing to light things in our life let's just pray together oh god we pray god you teach us oh

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Published: Mon Mar 29 2021