Forgiveness - The Key to Power, Grace, and Peace

Forgiveness helps us because it releases God to do His work in us. I'm happier and feel better physically when I'm not filled with the poison of unforgiveness. Serious diseases can develop as a result of the stress and pressure that bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness put on a person. 

The Father can't forgive our sins if we don't forgive other people. We reap what we sow. Sow mercy, and you'll reap mercy; sow judgment, and you'll reap judgment. You need to forgive, by the grace of God in your life, to leave the door of your heart open to the Lord. 

God's Word is Good Medicine

Many make the mistake of substituting belief in healing for the actual taking of God's medicine - His Word. They say, 'I believe in healing' without actually taking the medicine. How much good can medicine do for us if we don't take it? 

God's Word is His medicine - it's a healing agent, just as natural medicine is a healing agent or catalyst. In other words, the medicine itself contains the capacity to produce healing. Inherent within God's Word is the capacity, the energy, the ability, and the nature to effect healing in your body. 

So how do we take it? It is only as God's Word gets in the midst of your heart and stays there that it produces healing in your body. Head knowledge alone won't do. The Scriptures have to penetrate to your spirit through meditation - attending, hearing, looking, muttering, musing, pondering - to produce healing in your body. But once the Word really penetrates your heart, it will surely bring health to all your flesh. Let the Word of God penetrate deep within your heart today. 

Beginnings and Endings

God is the Alpha and the Omega;  the author of beginnings and endings. As we rejoice in beginnings, we should remember that things must end in order for new beginnings to occur. 

For a new door to open sometimes an old door must shut. When a relationship, a season, or situation becomes fruitless or has no more purpose it might be God's nudge that it's the end and it's time to close the door of THAT situation.  

We are not a failure because a door closes or a situation ends. Winners also know when to quit at the right time and when their purpose is complete. 

Don't remain in a fruitless or purpose-less situation if God has declared the end. This only delays our next blessing and next pitstop on our journey.

Endings do not denote failure, they just push us closer to our divine purpose and destiny.