DCLM Sincere Milk 10 January 2022 — Forgive your offenders
DCLM Sincere Milk 10 January 2022 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Forgive your offenders
TOPIC: FORGIVE YOUR OFFENDERS
TEXT: COLOSSIANS 3:10-16
Key Verse: “Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye” (Colossians 3:13).
MESSAGE:
Do you remember the day you gave your life to Christ? You confessed all your sins and asked God to forgive you and He did! He forgave all your sins without thinking twice. He wants you to do the same with those people who have hurt you or made you sad or angry. As a child of God, God wants you to be exactly like Him. Every friend of Jesus must be quick and ready to forgive people their offences, even when they do not say sorry. It may be hard to do this, but God has given you the power to do it.
The word of God teaches that we should forgive others just the way Christ forgave us. Do not be angry at them or hold them in your heart in hatred. Forgive them with a smile on your face. Why? Because you are a child of God! Do not keep diary or record of the people that offend you. You can ask Jesus to sanctify your heart so that you can forgive people with ease. Forgiveness is Christlike.
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Prayer: Lord, help me to forgive all the people that have made me sad or angry.
Further Reading: MATTHEW 6:12-15
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
