About Hurts & Offenses
A long time ago, a friend of mine did something that really
hurt me. I was so angry that I decided to even cut off from this person and no
longer even relate with this person. I actually didn’t tell the person about
that I was upset with what the person did.
After a while I began to feel bad about my reaction towards
the person and I repented before God and asked God for His help to forgive and
love the person again.
A short while after I did this, this person approached me
for counseling and prayers about an issue that had persisted for a while in the
person’s life. By God’s grace, together with someone else I prayed my heart out
for this person.
As I left my meeting with this person I felt so bad about
the way I felt about the person before but I was actually more grateful to God
for helping me to overcome my bad feeling towards this person because if I
still had that feeling I wouldn’t have been able to minister to the person the
way I was supposed to.
You won’t believe what happened next. The very next morning
this person received a miracle exactly as we prayed to God for.
I’m not saying it was my prayer that did it but I thank God
that I was able to pray for this person.
When I think on this experience, what comes to my mind is
that many mighty moves of God can be thwarted by hurts and offenses. Our
decision to let go of hurts and offenses can really enhance the mighty move of
God in our midst.
Hmmm....
ReplyDeleteI feel you. Thank you for sharing.