DeaconBob3
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Prayer to Forgive Others and Asking Forgiveness 5 Ways
Today, right now, I am choosing to forgive, to reach ahead toward healing but Father, I do not know how to make forgiveness happen. My emotions are raw and bleeding right now. I am afraid to trust and leave my heart open to be hurt again. But I know true forgiveness is a conscious choice, not an emotion. I can choose to forgive, even if my feelings tell me I do not want to or can not. Please give me the willingness and the inner resolve to keep on choosing to forgive until it becomes real to me and is accomplished in me by Your power.
Like a wounded child, let me nestle into Your lap for comfort. Salve my bruised emotions and my aching heart. Pour in Your love until there is no room for my own self pity. Father, I choose to release all the bitterness stored in my heart against those who have hurt me, whether intentionally or not.
Forgive me for all the condemning judgments I have made on others, in hopes of getting even or avenging the hurt they caused. Rather than accusation, I ask that You send blessings to those who wounded me, for Your goodness can lead their hearts to repentance.
Show me where I need to seek the forgiveness. Show me if even 10% of this conflict is my fault and what needs to be dealt with in my heart. Protect me from any sense of false guilt, if reconciliation is not possible.
Forgive me for all my sinful responses and actions against those who hurt me. Your Word teaches that You can forgive me because the price for my forgiveness has already been paid by the death of Your Son. This holds true as I choose to forgive others as well. The price has been paid in full by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Lord, please forgive me for projecting onto You my childish pictures of what a father is or should be. Enlighten the eyes of my heart to see You and love You as You really are, and to follow You with child-like trust, resting in Your protection.
I also forgive myself for clutching resentment, wearing my victimhood like a medal. I forgive myself for believing Satan's deception. By Your resurrection power within me, I break off the chains of resentment or bitterness that bind my heart and mind. I choose to be free to be a demonstration of Your love, life, mercy and grace.
Today, right now, I am choosing to forgive, to reach ahead toward healing but Father, I do not know how to make forgiveness happen. My emotions are raw and bleeding right now. I am afraid to trust and leave my heart open to be hurt again. But I know true forgiveness is a conscious choice, not an emotion. I can choose to forgive, even if my feelings tell me I do not want to or can not. Please give me the willingness and the inner resolve to keep on choosing to forgive until it becomes real to me and is accomplished in me by Your power.
Like a wounded child, let me nestle into Your lap for comfort. Salve my bruised emotions and my aching heart. Pour in Your love until there is no room for my own self pity. Father, I choose to release all the bitterness stored in my heart against those who have hurt me, whether intentionally or not.
Forgive me for all the condemning judgments I have made on others, in hopes of getting even or avenging the hurt they caused. Rather than accusation, I ask that You send blessings to those who wounded me, for Your goodness can lead their hearts to repentance.
Show me where I need to seek the forgiveness. Show me if even 10% of this conflict is my fault and what needs to be dealt with in my heart. Protect me from any sense of false guilt, if reconciliation is not possible.
Forgive me for all my sinful responses and actions against those who hurt me. Your Word teaches that You can forgive me because the price for my forgiveness has already been paid by the death of Your Son. This holds true as I choose to forgive others as well. The price has been paid in full by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Lord, please forgive me for projecting onto You my childish pictures of what a father is or should be. Enlighten the eyes of my heart to see You and love You as You really are, and to follow You with child-like trust, resting in Your protection.
I also forgive myself for clutching resentment, wearing my victimhood like a medal. I forgive myself for believing Satan's deception. By Your resurrection power within me, I break off the chains of resentment or bitterness that bind my heart and mind. I choose to be free to be a demonstration of Your love, life, mercy and grace.
