OVERCOME HEAVYNESS
AND BE HAPPY
It may not be madness to get mad at people sometimes but it
is outright madness to stay mad. Holding grudge against someone will never
change that person you’re grudging for the better but the act rather changes
you for the worse. It gives you headache, it makes your stomach hurt, makes you
lose concentration, it raises your blood pressure, it clogs your brain and
clouds your mental vision, it chains down your spirit man and badly affects
your prayer life- because in that situation, God can never answer your prayers
while holding grudge against anyone (Matt 5:23&24). And most importantly,
should rapture take place, and meet unforgiveness…... you are not going
anywhere.
It negatively affects everything in you and you in
everything you do. Something that negatively affects your spirit and soul has a
devastating effect on your body too. Matt 18:21-35, makes us understand that those
who don’t forgive others are denied of healing, deliverance, and a place in kingdom
of God. They are even to delivered to the devils to be tortured till they pay
for all their sins- the debt no man can ever pay (Matt 18:34)..
Hatred is a self-addressed
envelop.
There is another terrible type of grudge and hatred. This
one happens when you anticipate that someone would offend you, and then you
hate them for what they have not even done beforehand. Though, oftentimes they
won't offend you when you finally have an encounter with them, but by this
time, your heart is already clouded by what you expected and the true love, joy
and enthusiasm can never be there. You may fake it, but that indicates more
spiritual and intellectual bondage and it also proclaims your weakness and
doing it makes you mentally and spiritually weaker each time. Why not just live
a free and peaceful life by setting others free and letting them be at peace in
your heart. They are only in the abstract bondage of your heart; they don't
experience the bondage in real life after all. You're the one carrying the
heavy load.
Simply let it go before it gets down in you and take root. A
foothold you allow for the devil will soon become a stronghold. So, give no
room for the devil
You say but it’s not
easy to do!!
I am not saying it is easy to do either. Something that is
not easy to do only require strength to accomplish. Only those people who go
through each day without carrying any load of grudge or malice or hatred to
their beds are those empowered to do so. Only the strong, loving and compassionate
people can forgive without looking back on their decision.
HOW TO LET GO AND BE HAPPY
we shall consider three things ways;
Phil 4:13 says "I can do all
things through Christ which strentheneth" please note the word
STRENGTHENET OR STRENGTHENS. I also love the way The Darby's Translations put
it. It says "I have strength for all things in him that gives me
power." This simply means that God keeps giving us power and strength to do
all things (including forgiving others and overlook or letting go where
necessary) each moment, hour, and in everyday of our life- as much as we can
ask him for it. For he said in matt 7:7 "Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:" Numbers
14:28 also Says "......... As truly
as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:"
Think of the strength Jesus possesses, so much that He not
only forgave but also prayed for those who crucified Him.in luke 22:41-44
Jesus, knowing the great task of been brutally crucified without commiting any
sin, prayed so much “…his sweat was as it
were great drops of blood falling down to the ground vs 44.” And we learnt that after he’d prayed earlier, “And there appeared an angel unto him from
heaven, strengthening him.”
Much of the strength to "overcome
evil with good" as the Bible commands in (Romans 12:21) lies in love
and that leads us into the next point;
2. LOVE AND COMPASSION:
If you're truly a
child of God, you will possess the spirit of God(Holy Spirit) which is the
spirit of Love. Remember "Where the spirit of God (Spirit of Love) is,
there is liberty"!
2Cor 3:17 says "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the
Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." Now, the Lord is the spirit,
the Spirit of The LORD, and God is Love. Now you understand that both God, The
Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus and Love are all one and that is why God is so loving
and compassionate enough to spare you, even you, till this day in-spite of
uncountable sins with which you have offended Him. Not only that, He also sent
His only Son Jesus Christ to die for those sins of yours and mine. He was able
to do all these because Love and compassion is who God is. 1John 4:8 "For God is Love" Paslm 145: 8
"The LORD is gracious, and full of
compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy." Prov 10:12 “Hatred stirreth up strifes: but LOVE
covereth all sins.”
When you possess the spirit of God, the fruits or
characteristics of God will be present in you. That is, you begin to behave
(Love) like God. Gal 5:22 “But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith…”
3. TAKE THE HIGHWAY AND DON'T TAKE THE BAIT:
We can forgive people, no matter what the do to us, through strength
in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 6:10 says “be strong in the Lord and in the power
of His might.”
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