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PRAY THIS Daily | August 2026 Morning Blessings and Breakthrough — Transcript

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0:00One day my pastor passed [music] a
0:02church sign that grabbed his attention.
0:05He shared it with the congregation and
0:07it has given us a [music] life-changing
0:09perspective.
0:11Every morning when your eyes open before
0:14you check your phone, before you review
0:16your schedule, before [music]
0:17you think about yesterday's mistakes or
0:20today's responsibilities,
0:22there's a simple truth you need to
0:24remember.
0:25You woke up with two things,
0:27a chance
0:29and a choice.
0:30A chance [music] because God allowed you
0:32to see another day
0:34and a choice
0:36because what [music] you do with that
0:37day is up to you.
0:40The fact that you're breathing right now
0:43is evidence that God's mercy showed up
0:45before you did.
0:46The fact that your heart is beating,
0:48your lungs are working, that you're
0:50privy [music] to these words,
0:53all that means heaven has given you
0:55another opportunity.
0:57Another opportunity [music] to grow,
1:00another opportunity to learn, to love,
1:03to obey,
1:04to become more like Christ.
1:07Some people didn't get [music] this day.
1:10Some plans were interrupted.
1:12Some stories reached their [music] final
1:15chapter,
1:16but you're still here.
1:19That means
1:21God is not [music] finished with you
1:23yet.
1:25Lamentations 3 verses 22 through [music]
1:2723 says,
1:30"Through the Lord's mercies we are not
1:33consumed
1:34because his compassions [music]
1:35fail not.
1:37They are new every morning.
1:40Great is your faithfulness."
1:42Notice what [music] the scripture says.
1:45His mercies are new every morning. Not
1:48every month, not every year,
1:50>> [music]
1:50>> every morning.
1:52That means every sunrise is carrying
1:55[music] fresh mercy,
1:56fresh grace,
1:58fresh compassion, [snorts]
2:00fresh opportunity.
2:02God doesn't wake you up because you've
2:04done everything right.
2:06He wakes you up because he's right.
2:09He wakes you up because he's faithful.
2:12He gives you another chance because
2:14that's who he [music] is.
2:16How many times have we promised God we'd
2:18do better and then we failed?
2:21How many times have we known the right
2:22thing to do but still chosen the wrong
2:24thing?
2:26How many times have we allowed fear,
2:28pride, insecurity, anger, laziness,
2:32distraction, or possibly unforgiveness
2:35to get the best of us?
2:37Yet somehow, somehow his mercy
2:41kept showing [music] up.
2:43Somehow his grace kept finding us.
2:46Somehow he kept giving us another
2:48chance. [music]
2:49Peter,
2:50he denied Jesus three times.
2:53David committed serious [music]
2:54sin. Jonah ran from God's assignment.
2:57Moses made mistakes. Yet God [music]
2:59continued to meet each of them.
3:02He met them with correction, with
3:04restoration,
3:05>> [music]
3:05>> and another opportunity to walk in
3:07purpose. Not because their failures were
3:09insignificant.
3:11Not because God lowered his standards,
3:14but because God's grace [music]
3:17is greater than our failures.
3:19Romans 5:20 says, "But where sin
3:21abounded,
3:23grace abounded much more."
3:26What an incredible God we serve.
3:29What an amazing grace he gives.
3:33Every morning, he places a [music] gift
3:36in our hands called today.
3:39Then he allows us
3:41to decide what we'll do with it.
3:43That's where the choice comes in.
3:46You see, every day we receive a chance
3:48from God,
3:50but we also make choices [music]
3:52in the presence of God.
3:54We choose what will dominate our
3:56thoughts. We choose what attitude will
3:59carry.
4:00We choose whether we'll complain or be
4:03grateful.
4:04We choose whether we'll hold on to
4:06bitterness or extend love and
4:08forgiveness.
4:10We choose whether we'll [music] focus on
4:12our problems or we'll magnify our God.
4:16We choose [music] whether we'll pursue
4:18God's will or be led by our own.
4:21The day
4:23it may bring unexpected challenges, but
4:25our response [music] to the day is still
4:28a choice.
4:29The circumstances may not be our choice,
4:31but our attitude is.
4:33The obstacle may not be our choice, but
4:36our perspective [music]
4:36is.
4:38That storm
4:39it may not be our choice,
4:42but to walk in our faith is.
4:45Joshua challenged to God's people with
4:47these words [music]
4:49in Joshua 24:15.
4:51Choose for yourselves [music] this day
4:55whom you will serve.
4:56Not tomorrow.
4:58Don't wait till next [music] week to
4:59choose.
5:01Not when life gets easier.
5:03Choose this day.
5:06And every day presents new decisions.
5:09[music]
5:10So what will you do with it?
5:12Will you choose faith or fear?
5:15Will you choose obedience or compromise?
5:18Will you choose worship
5:20or worry?
5:22Will you choose hope or despair?
5:25Will you choose God's way
5:27or will you choose your own way?
5:30The beautiful [music] thing
5:32is that God never forces himself on us.
5:37His love requires choice.
5:40That relationship
5:43requires choice.
5:45Obedience
5:47requires [music] choice.
5:50Every morning
5:51God says, "Here's another chance."
5:54Then he lovingly asks,
5:56"What will you do with it? What will you
5:59choose?"
6:00Some people spend so much time
6:01regretting yesterday
6:04that they never fully embrace today's
6:05opportunity. [music]
6:07They continue to replay old failures.
6:10They revisit old wounds. They
6:12>> [music]
6:12>> rehearse all the old disappointments.
6:15Meanwhile, today's chance is not fully
6:18acknowledged or embraced.
6:20The enemy wants to keep you trapped
6:22[music] in yesterday.
6:24But God desires for you to engage in
6:27today.
6:28Philippians 3:13-14 [music]
6:31says,
6:32"Brethren, I do not count [music] myself
6:34to have apprehended,
6:36but one thing I do,
6:38forgetting those things which are behind
6:40and reaching forward
6:42to those things which are ahead.
6:45I press toward the goal for the prize
6:48of the upward [music] call of God in
6:49Christ Jesus."
6:52Notice Paul didn't say he denied the
6:54past existed. [music]
6:56He simply refused to let it dictate his
6:58future.
6:59You can't change yesterday's [music]
7:00choices,
7:02but you can make better choices today.
7:05You can't relive yesterday's
7:06opportunities,
7:08but you can maximize today's.
7:11You cannot undo what happened,
7:13but you can decide [music] what happens
7:15next.
7:17That's the power
7:19of a chance and a choice. [music]
7:21Just imagine
7:23how different our lives might be if we
7:25woke up each morning and intentionally
7:26[music]
7:27chose gratitude.
7:29What if instead of saying,
7:31"Ooh, I have to go to work."
7:33We said, "Thank you, Lord, for providing
7:35a job."
7:37What if instead of saying,
7:39"I have to take care of my family."
7:41We said, "Thank you, Lord, for blessing
7:43me with people to love.
7:46What if instead of focusing on what's
7:47missing, [music]
7:49we focused on what remains?
7:52Instead of dwelling on what went wrong,
7:54what might happen
7:56if we celebrated [music]
7:57God for what he's still doing?
8:00Every day
8:02gives us the choice to magnify
8:03something.
8:05We can magnify [music] our problems,
8:07or we can magnify our God.
8:10Psalm 34:3 [music]
8:12says, "Oh, magnify the Lord with me,
8:15and let us exalt his name [music]
8:18together."
8:19God hasn't changed. His power hasn't
8:23changed. His promises haven't changed.
8:25[music] God's faithfulness,
8:27it has not changed. The only question is
8:32the only question
8:33is what we'll choose to focus on.
8:36[music]
8:37You have a chance today.
8:39A chance to encourage someone.
8:42A chance to apologize.
8:44To forgive. To begin again.
8:47You have a chance to obey God.
8:50A chance to trust him more deeply.
8:52To pray more fervently. To worship more
8:55freely.
8:56To love more wholeheartedly.
8:59You have a chance to become.
9:02And not only [music]
9:04do you have a chance,
9:06you have a choice.
9:08You can waste [music] the opportunity,
9:10or you can steward it.
9:12You can complain about the day,
9:15or you can use it.
9:17You can drift through it,
9:19or you can purposefully walk through it.
9:23You can simply [music] exist,
9:25or you can truly live.
9:28Jesus said in John 10:10, [music] "I
9:30have come
9:31that they may have life,
9:33and that they may have it more [music]
9:34abundantly."
9:36That's not survival.
9:38That's abundant living.
9:41That's waking up every morning
9:42understanding that [music] life
9:44is a gift from God
9:47and that [music] purpose is waiting for
9:48you.
9:49The truth is
9:51that one day all of us will wake up for
9:53the final time
9:54on this side [music]
9:56of eternity.
9:57One day
9:59our opportunities here will be complete.
10:02One day
10:03our earthly choices will be finished.
10:07So, why waste today's chance?
10:10Why delay obedience?
10:13Why postpone [music]
10:14forgiveness?
10:16Why hold back your worship?
10:19Why continue carrying things that God
10:21has told [music] you to release?
10:24Why settle for less
10:26when God has called you [music] to more?
10:29Today matters.
10:32>> [music]
10:32>> This moment matters.
10:35This choice matters.
10:38Don't wait until next year
10:40to become who God [music] is calling you
10:42to be.
10:43Start today.
10:45Don't wait for perfect conditions.
10:48They don't [music] exist.
10:50Start today.
10:53>> [music]
10:53>> Don't wait until the fear disappears.
10:55Start today.
10:57Don't wait until every answer arrives.
11:00No.
11:01Start today.
11:03God has already given you something
11:05priceless.
11:06He's given you another chance.
11:09Now you make the choice.
11:11>> [music]
11:11>> Choose faith. Choose joy. Choose
11:13gratitude. Choose obedience.
11:16Choose hope,
11:18forgiveness,
11:19purpose.
11:21They're all yours to choose.
11:24Most importantly,
11:26choose Christ.
11:28And when tomorrow [music] comes, if God
11:30grants it,
11:31do it all over again.
11:33Because every sunrise is a reminder
11:36that God's mercy showed up before you
11:38did.
11:39Every breath is proof
11:41that purpose still remains.
11:44Every day
11:45is another [music] chance.
11:47Every day is another choice.
11:50Let's make them count.
11:53Father,
11:54thank you
11:55for the gift of another day.
11:58Thank you for mercy that is new every
12:00morning and grace that continually
12:02reaches places in our lives where we
12:04still need growth.
12:07Thank you that you've not treated us
12:08according [music] to our failures,
12:10but according to your love and your
12:12faithfulness.
12:14We acknowledge today
12:16that every breath we breathe
12:19is a gift [music] from you.
12:21Lord, forgive us for the opportunities
12:23we've wasted,
12:25for the moments [music] we've taken for
12:26granted,
12:28for the choices we made
12:30that did not honor you.
12:33Forgive us for complaining when we could
12:35have been grateful,
12:37for doubting when we could have trusted,
12:40for hesitating
12:41when we should have quickly [music]
12:42obeyed.
12:44Cleanse our hearts, Lord.
12:46Renew a right spirit within us.
12:49Your word says in Deuteronomy 30:19,
12:52"I've set before [music] you life and
12:54death, blessing and cursing.
12:57Therefore, choose life
12:59that both you and your descendants
13:01[music] may live."
13:03Lord,
13:04help us choose life.
13:06Help us choose faith when fear [music]
13:08comes.
13:09Help us choose hope when discouragement
13:11knocks.
13:12Help us choose worship when worry
13:15[music] tries to dominate our minds.
13:18Father, teach us to steward every
13:20opportunity you place before us.
13:23Give us eyes to see the people [music]
13:24who need encouragement.
13:26Give us ears to hear your voice.
13:29Give us wisdom to recognize [music]
13:31divine opportunities.
13:34And give us courage
13:35to obey [music] quickly
13:37and completely.
13:40Lord, let us never become so focused on
13:42yesterday that [music] we miss what
13:44you're doing today.
13:46Heal old wounds.
13:48Break old chains.
13:50Remove old mindsets.
13:54Help [music] us press forward into
13:56everything you have prepared for us.
13:59As Psalm 90:12 says,
14:02"So teach us to number our days
14:05that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
14:08Teach us to value our time, Lord.
14:11To use our lives well.
14:13Teach us to make choices [music] that
14:15bring glory to your name.
14:17Father, today we choose you again.
14:20We choose your will over our own.
14:23We choose your [music] truth
14:25over the lies the enemy has spoken to
14:27us.
14:29We choose gratitude [music] over
14:30complaining.
14:31Faith over fear. And purpose [music]
14:35over passivity.
14:37May our lives reflect [music] the
14:39goodness of you, God.
14:42The one who keeps giving us another
14:43chance.
14:45And when people see us,
14:47may they see the evidence [music] of
14:49your grace,
14:50your mercy,
14:52your transforming power.
14:54And may it be abundantly clear
14:56that we've made a choice.
14:58And that choice [music] is you.
15:01We thank you for today's chance.
15:04We thank you for today's [music] choice.
15:07And by the power of your spirit,
15:09Father, we commit
15:11to making both count.
15:14In Jesus' name.
15:16Amen.
15:19>> Emotions are powerful.
15:22And I mean truly powerful. [music]
15:25I've seen people so happy, their faces
15:28were [music] covered in tears.
15:30Tears of joy streaming down their cheeks
15:32because their hearts were overflowing
15:34with gratitude.
15:36I've seen people so distraught and
15:38filled with sorrow,
15:39>> [music]
15:40>> they couldn't string together two words.
15:43The pain was so deep that language
15:45failed them.
15:46And I've seen others so inspired and
15:48motivated that they [music] could work
15:50day and night tirelessly to accomplish
15:53something they believed in.
15:55Emotions can drive you to greatness.
15:59But emotions can also destroy you from
16:02the inside out.
16:05The evangelist Billy Graham once made a
16:06statement that stayed with me.
16:08>> [music]
16:08>> He said that 75% of patients in
16:11hospitals would be made whole
16:13if they would only forgive.
16:1775%.
16:19Think about that.
16:21Three out of every four patients could
16:22potentially be healed.
16:24>> [music]
16:24>> Not by a new medication, not by a new
16:26procedure, but by releasing the toxic
16:28emotions they've been carrying.
16:32Unforgiveness,
16:33bitterness,
16:34resentment, anger.
16:37These are not just spiritual problems.
16:39[music]
16:40They manifest physically. They show up
16:43in the body.
16:44They make us sick.
16:47The Bible says in Proverbs 14:30,
16:50"A heart at peace gives life to the
16:52body,
16:54but envy rots the bones."
16:58"A heart at peace gives life,
17:00but envy rots the [music] bones."
17:04An internal emotion
17:06producing an external
17:07>> [music]
17:07>> physical result.
17:10What you carry in your heart
17:12will eventually show in your body.
17:15Peace gives life.
17:18But bitterness, jealousy, and
17:20unforgiveness,
17:22they rot [music] you from the inside.
17:26Now, I want to draw your attention to
17:27something the Bible says in Hebrews
17:28[music] chapter 12:14-15.
17:33Pursue peace with all people
17:36and holiness, without which no one will
17:38see the Lord.
17:40Looking carefully lest anyone fall short
17:43of the grace of God.
17:45Lest any [music] root of bitterness
17:46springing up cause trouble.
17:49And by this many become defiled.
17:54Now, notice something important about
17:55this verse.
17:57It doesn't just warn us to be cautious
17:58of bitterness itself, it warns us to be
18:01cautious of the root [music]
18:03of bitterness.
18:04The root.
18:07Now, the root of a plant is not visible
18:08to the naked [music] eye. It grows
18:10underground, in the dark, out of sight.
18:14You may only become aware that a seed
18:16was planted when you see the fruit above
18:18the surface.
18:19But by then the root system is already
18:21deep and entangled.
18:24And so when the Bible says, "See to
18:26[music] it that no root of bitterness
18:28springs up."
18:29It's telling us that this emotion is so
18:32destructive, [music]
18:33so dangerous
18:35that it needs to be uprooted the moment
18:38the seed germinates.
18:40Don't wait until you see the fruit.
18:43Don't wait until bitterness has spread
18:45through every area of your life. Cut it
18:48off at the root.
18:51Because if you let it grow
18:53it'll cause trouble.
18:55And by it
18:56>> [music]
18:56>> many will become defiled.
18:59Not just you.
19:00Many.
19:02Bitterness doesn't stay contained. It
19:04leaks. It contaminates your
19:06relationships. It poisons your marriage.
19:09It infects your friendships.
19:11It affects your children.
19:13It defiles [music] everyone it touches.
19:17Now, think about Joseph.
19:20If anyone had a right to be bitter,
19:21>> [music]
19:22>> it was this man.
19:24His own brothers threw him into a pit.
19:26They sold him into slavery. They told
19:29his father he was dead. And for years,
19:32Joseph suffered.
19:34Slavery,
19:36false accusations, prison,
19:39forgotten by the one man who promised to
19:42remember [music] him.
19:44Joseph had every justification to let
19:46bitterness just take root. Every reason
19:49to hold on to resentment and let it grow
19:51into a forest of hatred.
19:54But he didn't.
19:56When Joseph finally stood before his
19:58brothers years later,
19:59as the second most [music] powerful man
20:01in Egypt,
20:03he had every opportunity for revenge.
20:07But listen to what he said.
20:09Genesis 50:19-21 [music]
20:12reads,
20:15"But Joseph said to them,
20:17'Do not fear,
20:18for I am in the place of God.
20:22As for you,
20:23you meant evil against me.
20:25But God meant it for good
20:28to bring it about that many people
20:29[music] should be kept alive as they are
20:31today.
20:33So, do not fear.
20:35I will provide for you and your little
20:37ones.'
20:39Thus,
20:39>> [music]
20:39>> he comforted them and spoke kindly to
20:42them.
20:44He comforted them.
20:46He spoke kindly to them.
20:49The ones who had tried to destroy his
20:50life,
20:51>> [music]
20:52>> he forgave.
20:53He fed their families. He wept over
20:56them.
20:57He chose [music] to let go of
20:58bitterness,
21:00and it set him free.
21:03If Joseph had held on to that
21:04bitterness, it would have rotted him
21:06from the inside.
21:09He had the power to destroy [music] his
21:11brothers, but the unforgiveness would
21:13have destroyed him first.
21:16And think about the ultimate example of
21:18forgiveness.
21:19Jesus Christ on the cross.
21:22Beaten, mocked, spat upon,
21:25stripped, nailed to wood,
21:28crucified between two criminals,
21:31innocent in every way.
21:34And yet,
21:35in the middle of the most
21:36>> [music]
21:36>> agonizing suffering any human being has
21:39ever endured,
21:41Jesus looked down at the very people who
21:43were killing him and said,
21:46"Father, forgive them,
21:48for they do not know what they are
21:50doing."
21:53"Father, forgive them."
21:55Not "Father, punish them."
21:58Not [music] "Father, remember what
21:59they've done."
22:02"Forgive them."
22:04If Jesus could forgive the men drove
22:06nails through his hands,
22:08then by his grace,
22:10you can forgive the person who hurt you.
22:13Now, I'm not saying [music] it's easy.
22:16I'm not saying the pain isn't real.
22:19I'm saying that holding on to bitterness
22:21is [music] like drinking poison and
22:23expecting the other person to die.
22:26It doesn't hurt them.
22:28It hurts you.
22:30And Jesus is offering you the grace
22:32>> [music]
22:32>> to let it go.
22:35Think about Stephen,
22:37the first Christian martyr.
22:39In Acts chapter 7, as the crowd picked
22:41up stones [music] and hurled them at his
22:43body,
22:44as the life was leaving him,
22:46Stephen cried out, "Lord, do not hold
22:49this sin against them."
22:52He was being murdered, and his dying
22:55prayer was for the forgiveness of his
22:57killers.
22:59Among those who witnessed that moment,
23:02holding the [music] coats of those who
23:03stoned Stephen, was a young man named
23:06Saul.
23:08And that prayer
23:09may well have been one of the seeds
23:11[music] that eventually led to Saul's
23:12conversion on the road to Damascus.
23:16The man who became the Apostle Paul,
23:19one of the greatest missionaries [music]
23:21in the history of the church.
23:24Stephen's forgiveness
23:26>> [music]
23:26>> didn't just set Stephen free.
23:29It planted a seed in the heart of a
23:31future apostle.
23:34That is the power of letting go.
23:37That's what happens when you refuse
23:38[music] to let bitterness take root.
23:41And so, dear friend,
23:43I am aware that in this life all of us
23:45will experience unpleasant emotions at
23:47one point or another.
23:49We'll experience [music] the pain of
23:51betrayal.
23:52We'll experience heartache and loss. We
23:54might even suffer maltreatment and
23:56injustice.
23:59But my message [music] to you today is
24:00this.
24:02Learn to forgive.
24:04Learn to let go.
24:06Don't hold on to everything negative
24:08that people do to you.
24:10Don't carry the weight of what was done
24:12to you 10 years ago.
24:14Don't let the bitterness of last year
24:16rot the bones of this year.
24:18Don't live a life where you are
24:20imprisoned by toxic emotions.
24:24The Bible says in Ephesians 4:31-32,
24:28"Get [music] rid of all bitterness,
24:30rage, and anger,
24:32brawling and slander,
24:35along with every form of malice.
24:38Be kind and compassionate to one
24:40another,
24:41forgiving each other,
24:42just as in Christ God forgave you."
24:47Just as in Christ God forgave you.
24:52That is the standard. That is the
24:55[music] measure.
24:57You forgive others
24:59because God
24:59>> [music]
25:00>> first forgave you.
25:02And the same grace that allowed God to
25:04forgive your sins is the same grace that
25:06will enable you to forgive the [music]
25:07person who hurt you.
25:11Jesus Christ offers you peace.
25:13He offers you joy.
25:15He offers you victory [music] despite
25:17what people have done to you.
25:19In Jesus, you can have freedom.
25:21You can have life
25:23and have it more abundantly.
25:26But you have to let go of what is
25:28holding you captive. You have to release
25:30[music] the bitterness.
25:31You have to uproot the root.
25:35Now, let us pray.
25:38Lord Jesus, we come before you today and
25:41we ask for your grace.
25:43The grace to forgive.
25:44The grace [music] to let go.
25:46The grace to release every person who
25:48has hurt us and every memory [music]
25:50that has imprisoned us.
25:53Father, someone listening today has been
25:54betrayed. [music]
25:55And I pray that you would heal them,
25:57Lord.
25:58Let them know that you will never
25:59abandon them.
26:01That you'll never turn your back on
26:02them.
26:03That even though people have failed
26:05them,
26:05>> [music]
26:05>> you never will.
26:08Someone listening has been the recipient
26:09of hurtful words.
26:11Evil words spoken against them.
26:14Spoken about [music] them.
26:16Words that cut deep and left scars that
26:19no one else can see.
26:21Lord, I ask that your healing hand would
26:23mend every heart and every ear that has
26:26been on the receiving end of cruelty.
26:30Help us to forgive.
26:32Let there be no [music] bitterness in
26:34our hearts. Let there be no malice.
26:37Let there be no jealousy or hatred.
26:40Instead, Lord Jesus, heal our wounds.
26:44Every wound inflicted by our enemies.
26:46>> [music]
26:46>> Every wound inflicted by our friends.
26:49Even the wounds inflicted by loved ones.
26:52Make us [music] whole and fill our
26:54hearts with love.
26:56Father, uproot [music] every root of
26:58bitterness and resentment in our hearts.
27:01Uproot every memory [music] linked to
27:02toxic emotions.
27:04Pull them out at the root, Lord,
27:06before they spread any [music] further,
27:08before they defile any more
27:10relationships, before they rot any more
27:12bones.
27:15Like Joseph, give us the grace [music]
27:16to look at those who hurt us and say,
27:20"What you meant for evil,
27:21God meant for good."
27:25Like Jesus on the cross,
27:27give us the grace to say, "Father,
27:29forgive them."
27:31Like Stephen, as the stones [music]
27:33fell,
27:34give us the grace to pray for those who
27:36persecute us.
27:38Teach us to love.
27:40Help us to live by your word, which
27:43tells us to love our neighbors.
27:45Give us the grace, Lord Jesus, to live
27:48and to love according to [music] 1
27:50Corinthians 13:4-8.
27:53Love suffers long
27:55>> [music]
27:55>> and is kind.
27:57Love does not envy.
27:59Love does [music] not parade itself.
28:02Is not puffed up.
28:04Does not behave rudely.
28:06Does not seek its own.
28:08Is not provoked.
28:09Thinks no [music] evil.
28:12Does not rejoice in iniquity, but
28:14rejoices in the truth.
28:16Bears all things. Believes all things.
28:21Hopes all things.
28:23Endures all things.
28:26Love never fails.
28:29Give us this type of love in our hearts,
28:31Jesus, so that when others do evil to
28:34us, we can respond with love.
28:37When others speak negatively about us,
28:39>> [music]
28:39>> give us great grace,
28:41so that we may love them regardless.
28:44Lord, I pray for every person listening
28:46right now who feels rejected [music]
28:48and unwanted.
28:50Heal every wound inflicted by the
28:52actions of others.
28:54To those who feel low,
28:56lift up their spirit.
28:57To those who are sad and have a heavy
28:59heart,
29:01remove their burdens, Lord Jesus.
29:02[music]
29:03Help us to let go.
29:06Give us the strength to practice [music]
29:08forgiveness.
29:10Give us the grace to practice real love
29:12in our lives.
29:14We declare your word in Romans 12:9-12.
29:16[music]
29:18Love must be sincere.
29:21Hate what is evil.
29:23Cling to what is [music] good.
29:26Be devoted to one another in love.
29:28Honor one another above yourselves.
29:31Never be [music] lacking in zeal,
29:33but keep your spiritual fervor serving
29:36the [music] Lord.
29:37Be joyful in hope,
29:39patient in affliction,
29:42faithful in prayer.
29:45Help us [music] to do this, Lord. Help
29:48us to love sincerely. Help us to cling
29:50to what is good and to hate what is
29:53evil.
29:54Help us to be [music] devoted to one
29:55another in love.
29:58We praise you, Lord, because you're the
30:00God who heals.
30:02You heal broken bodies.
30:03>> [music]
30:03>> You heal broken hearts.
30:06And you heal the wounds that bitterness
30:07has caused.
30:10We praise you because you forgave us
30:12first.
30:14While we were yet sinners, Christ died
30:17for us.
30:18And if you could forgive us at our
30:20worst, [music]
30:21you can give us the grace to forgive
30:23others at theirs.
30:25We praise you
30:27because in you
30:28there is freedom.
30:29Freedom from bitterness.
30:31Freedom from resentment.
30:34Freedom from every toxic emotion that
30:37has held us captive.
30:39And today,
30:40we choose that freedom.
30:43May the blood of Jesus [music] Christ
30:44cover us.
30:47We thank you for hearing this prayer.
30:50In the mighty name of Jesus Christ I
30:51pray.
30:53Amen.
30:56Now, before we close out today, I want
30:58to leave you with a handful of
30:59scriptures that I'd encourage you to
31:00take with you [music] and let them work
31:02in your heart over the days ahead.
31:04Don't just listen to them and move on.
31:06>> [music]
31:07>> Speak them over yourself. Write them
31:09somewhere you'll see them daily and let
31:11them dig up every root of bitterness
31:12[music] that may be hiding in the soil
31:14of your soul.
31:16Because here's the truth.
31:18Forgiveness is not a one-time decision
31:20we make and forget.
31:22It's a daily surrender.
31:25And the only way our hearts stay soft,
31:28our spirits stay [music] free,
31:30and our body stay healthy is by allowing
31:33the word of God to keep the soil of our
31:35hearts clean.
31:37So, let these [music] verses become
31:38tools in the hands of the Holy Spirit.
31:43The first one I want to share is Matthew
31:44chapter 6 [music] verse 14 to 15, which
31:47says,
31:48"For if you forgive others their
31:50trespasses,
31:51your heavenly Father will also forgive
31:53you.
31:55But if you do not forgive others their
31:56trespasses,
31:57neither will your Father forgive [music]
31:59your trespasses."
32:02Now, this is one of the most sobering
32:04verses on forgiveness in all of
32:05scripture because Jesus links our
32:08forgiveness from God [music] directly to
32:10our forgiveness of others.
32:14He's essentially saying that the same
32:16hand that withholds forgiveness from
32:17another person
32:18>> [music]
32:19>> is the same hand that blocks forgiveness
32:20from flowing into our own lives.
32:24You can't ask God to give you [music]
32:26what you yourself are refusing to give.
32:30So, when we forgive,
32:32we're not just releasing the other
32:33person.
32:34We're unlocking the door for God's
32:36[music] mercy to keep flowing freely
32:38into our own hearts.
32:41Then Colossians [music] chapter 3 verse
32:4313 says,
32:45"Bearing with one another, and if one
32:48has a complaint against another,
32:49forgiving each other,
32:51as the Lord has [music] forgiven you.
32:53So you also must forgive."
32:56Now notice [music] the standard that
32:58Paul gives us here.
32:59We don't forgive based on how badly we
33:01were hurt, how recent the offense was,
33:04or how sorry the other person [music]
33:06seems. We forgive based on how the Lord
33:08has forgiven us.
33:10And when you really think about how
33:12completely, how undeservedly, how freely
33:16>> [music]
33:16>> God has forgiven us,
33:18that becomes the measuring stick for
33:20every grudge we have ever been tempted
33:22to hold.
33:25Then Mark chapter 11 verse 25 [music]
33:27says,
33:28"And whenever you stand pray,
33:31forgive
33:32if you have anything against anyone,
33:34so that your Father also, who is in
33:37heaven, may forgive you your
33:39trespasses."
33:42There's something powerful here that we
33:43[music] often miss.
33:45Jesus links forgiveness directly to
33:48prayer.
33:50He's saying that unforgiveness will
33:52block your [music] prayer life.
33:54It creates a ceiling that your prayers
33:56struggle to break through.
33:59So if your prayer life has felt heavy,
34:01dry, or distant lately,
34:04just ask yourself honestly,
34:06is there anyone [music] I'm still
34:07holding something against?
34:10Cuz the path to a powerful prayer life
34:12[music]
34:12often runs straight through the door of
34:15forgiveness.
34:18So when it all comes together,
34:20the message is clear.
34:22Forgiveness is not weakness.
34:26It's freedom.
34:28Forgiveness is not letting the other
34:29person win.
34:31It's refusing to let bitterness destroy
34:33you.
34:35Forgive like Joseph who saw his brothers
34:38evil and trusted God's good.
34:41Forgive like Jesus
34:43who from the cross asked [music] the
34:45Father to forgive the very people
34:47driving the nails.
34:49Forgive like Stephen
34:51who prayed for his murderers as [music]
34:52the stones fell.
34:55Cut bitterness off at the root before it
34:58ever has [music] a chance to grow.
35:01And in doing so, you don't just release
35:03the person who hurt you.
35:05You release yourself into the abundant
35:08life that Jesus came [music] to give.
35:14Pursue peace with all people
35:17and holiness without which no one will
35:20see the Lord.
35:22Looking carefully lest anyone fall short
35:24of the grace of God.
35:26Lest any roots of bitterness springing
35:29up cause trouble.
35:31And by this many become [music] defiled.
35:37But Joseph said to them,
35:40"Do not fear
35:41for I am in the place of God.
35:45As for you, you meant evil against me.
35:48But God meant it for good.
35:51To bring it about that many people
35:52should be kept alive as they are today.
35:56So do not fear.
35:58I will provide for you and your little
36:00ones."
36:02Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly
36:04[music] to them.
36:09Get rid of all bitterness, rage, and
36:12anger.
36:14Brawling and slander
36:16along with every form of malice.
36:19Be kind and compassionate to one
36:21another,
36:22forgiving each [music] other just as in
36:24Christ God forgave you.
36:31Love suffers long and is kind.
36:35Love does not envy.
36:37Love does not parade itself.
36:40Is not puffed up.
36:42Does not behave rudely.
36:44Does not seek its own.
36:46Is not provoked.
36:47Thinks no [music] evil.
36:50Does not rejoice in iniquity. But
36:52rejoices in the truth.
36:54Bears all things. Believes all things.
36:59Hopes all things.
37:01Endures all things.
37:04Love never [music] fails.

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