“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.” Matthew 18:15
Forgiveness in one simple sentence:
Forgiveness is a vertical covenant followed by a horizontal commitment.
When someone wrongs you, your first move is not toward them — it is toward God.
Before you speak.
Before you text.
Before you rehearse the speech in your head for the 47th time.
You go to the Lord.
You hand Him the offense.
You entrust Him with the injustice.
You surrender your right to revenge.
Only then are you free to move horizontally toward the person who hurt you.
Forgiveness is rarely a one-time event. It is usually a long and difficult process. But it always begins vertically.
When you settle it with God first, your heart is steadied. Your emotions are filtered through grace instead of rage. Your desire shifts from retaliation to restoration.
So, ask yourself this question: Have I truly given this offense to the Lord first, or am I trying to handle it in my own strength?
By Susan Bolinger – Bloom Ladies Ministries, DOTK Community Writer
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Oh how I love today’s devotional! I want to run everything by God first before I take any action. I’ve been praying to God about this, and when I loose control, I feel so satisfied with the results! Surrender, surrender, surrender! 🙌🏽✝️♥️ Thank you, Sister Susan!
Wow & Amen…..
Mind blowing facts based in God’s word. Heavenly Father, please guide our steps and guide us to forgive those who have trespassed against us. Let us acknowledge our faults and heal us and those who are broken. Amen
Mind blowing facts based in God’s word. Heavenly Father, please guide our steps and guide us to forgive those who have trespassed against us. Let us acknowledge our faults and heal us and those who are broken. Amen
Amen…. We have to learn what true forgiveness….. Let it go!
Thank you, Thank you so much, this is a right on time word. I recently just went through something and it went haywire because I didn’t take everything to God before responding and I was dealing with unsaved people so of course the devil came in place but I forgave them, didn’t argue and left them in God’s hands. A lesson to be learned, after you have went to God, still be patient and wait for him to tell you to speak or move.
Thank you, Thank you so much, this is a right on time word. I recently just went through something and it went haywire because I didn’t take everything to God before responding and I was dealing with unsaved people so of course the devil came in place but I forgave them, didn’t argue and left them in God’s hands. A lesson to be learned, after you have went to God, still be patient and wait for him to tell you to speak or move.
Thank you for this reminder. It helps me to focus on where the Lord wants me to be, not my flesh. Blessings, Shalom and Agape 👀🙏🏽♥️📖🙌🏽
Wow!!! My GOD, My GOD.. thanks, for YOUR words of truth & LORD, teach Me, to forgive those who hurt Me when I needed them the most… IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME!!! AMEN…
I Thank you, Sooooo Very Much! My heart Needed this!🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
The sign is the cross vertical and horizontal
Dear Lord forgive me for my foolishness many times stewing in the pain and not releasing it upwards. Help me to surrender it to you , the cross and toss whatever remains in the air as dust, that scatters , never to be gathered – in my heart again.
I bring every hurt to you at the foot of your cross , I leave taking nothing . Amen it’s settled
Amen Amen Amen 🙏🏿 🙌🏾 ♥️♥️♥️✝️🛐👣👑🫂🦅
Amen Amen & Amen 🙏🏽☝🏽🙌🏽👏🏽🫶🏽💜🤍🕊️✨
In Jesus name Amen!
I have and will continue letting you handle ALL my life’s problems the good, bad, and the ugly. . Not my will but your will be done Lord.♥️♥️♥️
Forgiveness is the only way to have peace within yourself. I held grudges against my uncle for molesting me, against my ex-husband for his infidelity, …until God directed me to give it all to him. Then and only then did I have the peace that Jesus promised me. Thank you Precious Lord Jesus for helping me to see, those battles were yours, not mine.
Good morning!
These devotionals are so powerful, and I so look forward to reading them each day.
I have a question about unforgiveness which I have been battling for such a long time.
What I find difficult in my situation is that my ex-husband continually comes after me legally and through making poor parenting decisions which are impacting my children negatively, as well as through manipulation and parental alienation behaviors. My children are not impacted physically, but are definitely impacted emotionally and spiritually, and their relationship with me has been impacted negatively as well.
This has been ongoing and occurred in our marriage as well, but has increased in the seven years since he left, and we were divorced. My relationship with my children is suffering even more now that they are teenagers, especially because I am the primary custodian and primary disciplinary, while he rarely holds them accountable and takes all the trips and buys all the things. Meanwhile, I am investing in a Christian school for them, college, preparatory things, and other things that are expensive financially, but don’t look as fancy or attractive as the things that he provides.
I often describe feeling as though I am in one of the caverns in the type of darkness that occurs when they turn off the lights momentarily and it’s so dark you can’t even see your hand in front of you. But I’m also in a wave pool at the same time the darkness occurs. I know that another wave is coming, but I don’t know where or from what direction, and I don’t know what the collateral damage will be to my children or to me as a parent.
I feel as though just as I am trying to process the last thing that happened, another one comes full force.
I genuinely do not know how to forgive someone who continually keeps coming after me, not through the marriage anymore, but through my Achilles, heel of my children.
I would appreciate any direction you would be willing to give regarding forgiving in a situation you are unable to separate yourself from in that continually brings new threats, poor decisions, relational struggles with my children because they don’t see what I see and don’t experience what I experience in are misled, and hurt..