Word Of The Day
Your heart will become soft as flesh as I pour out My graces of unconditional love and forgiveness into its very depths. I am placing your heart upon My potter’s wheel to mold and shape it (Isaiah 64:8). I want you to experience the warmth of My strong hands loving, holding, molding, and shaping the very fabric of your being. My hands of love are wrapping around you at this very moment, creating in you newness of life. Remember, I never stop creating. It is who I am, Creator.
As you forgive others and your own self, your heart will be cleansed of all defilement and guilt. My blood poured crimson red for this and now you are dressed in white linen, full of love and bursting with joy. Though your sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow (Isaiah 1:18). I will see to it there is no room for hate, for vengeance – for my justice has emancipated you from the tyranny you suffered at the hands of your enemies. Not one thought, plan, or scheme of the enemy has escaped My notice, and now it is time for him to pay. And pay dearly he will, with seven-fold justice (Proverbs 6:30-31).
Remember, the quickest way to justice is through the narrow gate of forgiveness. The sins of those you retain, they are retained (John 20:23). The sins of those you have forgiven are forgiven (John 20:23). Holding onto hurts disables you, My beloved vessel of honor. Let no little foxes of seemingly unimportant things seep into your vessel of forgiveness, thereby defiling the whole of it.
I will wipe away all guilt, doubt and stains of the past making you as clean and fresh as a white sheet blowing in soft breezes of a spring day. All your resentment, guilt and anger are wiped away. Forgive and it is forgiven. Do this even if you see no difference right away in the one you have forgiven. I did it before I ever saw any change in you. I loved you first. And you changed (Proverbs 22:11), didn’t you? Be the first to love. Be like Me.
“In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor” (Eph 1:7 Amplified)
“So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained” (John 21: 21-23 NASB)
Prayer
My heart is soft and pliable in Your hands, washed by crimson blood. All my sins are white as snow, separated from me as far as east from west. You have risen up on my behalf and contended with my enemies. They melt like wax in a flame at the mention of Your name. Every plan and scheme of the enemy is being revealed, shouted from the mountain top through dreams and wise words. All darkness is fleeing and I am walking with a humble forgiving heart. I am forgiven and I forgive. I choose to forgive first, love first for I have chosen most of all to be like You. Amen
Reflect and Journal
1. Take some time, real time, and let Holy Spirit show you any unforgiveness you are walking in toward another person. Remember, He loves them too.
2. What stops you from being the first to forgive, the first to love, or the first to repent? Break covenant with pride and self-preservation and forgive.