Pray Like This When Someone Hurts You
When someone hurts you, spend your emotional, mental, and spiritual energy fighting the real enemy – Satan. Let’s commit to not giving him the upper hand.
When someone hurts you, spend your emotional, mental, and spiritual energy fighting the real enemy – Satan. Let’s commit to not giving him the upper hand.
Let’s take the high road. Let’s follow Christ’s example. And get on with the work of sharing Jesus love with others as He sacrificially shared it with us.
The good news is ~ confessing our sin changes everything for us. God takes it away. He doesn’t just hide it somewhere else. He removes it from us.
Our faith is complete, in part, when we love our enemies and pray for people who’ve wronged us. When we do so, Jesus says we’re children of God.
Consider this strategy when someone’s hurt you deeply: pray for them. Doing so is akin to donning protective armor against anger, bitterness, and unforgiveness.
We, too, can worship the Beloved with a kiss, figuratively speaking. We can breathe words of prayer to thank Him for keeping His promises.
When we seek God’s forgiveness for wrong attitudes and behaviors, He cleanses us from our sin. He sees us not for who we were and the mistakes we made.
In the midst of the hustle and bustle that accompanies this season, let’s remember what Christmas celebrates: Emmanuel – God with us.
If God says to pray for those who have hurt us, then let’s do what He says. We can trust the outcome to His wisdom and sovereignty.
God, in human form, wants us to know He’s in crazy-in-love with us. May we respond with gratitude. May we respond with joyful obedience to His commands.
God’s all about exchanging the old for the new, giving second chances, and restoring what was lost or broken. He wants to fill us with hope.
The weekend that celebrates freedom and independence for both Canada and the United States comes after a horrific series of terrorist attacks around the world.
Folks, let’s admit our inability to figure out life on our own. Let’s humble ourselves before God. Let’s acknowledge our dependence upon Him.
Maybe we need cool our emotions, put down our swords, and ask the Lord to fight our battles – in His way and in His timing. Much easier said than done, I know.
Imagine with me, Jesus kneeling before His disciples and washing their dusty feet. He knew His most difficult hour was coming. But still He demonstrated love.
You’d think experiencing the lavish love of my heavenly Father would cause me to become a stellar woman of faith, eager and ready to lavish love on others.
Forgiving someone who hurts us is vital to our spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical well-being, but let’s face it: It’s really difficult sometimes.
Every one of us has some sort of pain in our past (or our present). Here are three ways to overcome it, based on the life of Joseph.
I reveled in the thought of my former fiancé losing a few jewels in his heavenly crown but the thought of my being in the same boat was another story.
I find comfort in knowing that once God has forgiven me, He doesn’t recall the thoughtless and negative things I’ve done.
If we all made it our goal to respond to our enemies as David did, we’d turn the world upside down!
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