Forgiveness - Ps Hilda Samuel

Three Stages of Anger &Forgiveness : 1 Hurt: Identify, experience and express your feelings of pain & betrayal. The Spirit of Rejection enters the gate open.. 2 Hate: If you have been hurt, you hate.-The gate widens for the enemy to enter deeply. 3 Hook: The poison that torments you as expressed in Matthew18: 21-35. 4) Heal- Acknowledge the deceptive feeling of control. And begin : Forgiveness in being both an event and a process.

LEVEL1- Release anger and hatred. But no desire to relate to the offender, help or associate in anyway Moving on with your life in a positive direction..(memory of offence still their mode)

LEVEL 2 - Hear about a tragedy or affliction in the offender / or offenders’ family adverse /circumstances .Move with compassion.(memory of offence still there but somewhat in a far distance mode )

LEVEL 3 - Moved to pray for the ‘trial “ of the offender while still maintaining safe distance.( memory of offence still there but clouded with compassion )

LEVEL 4 – Convicted to visit and take a meal, bless pray with offender. (memory of offence a pale shadow but still there is warning within you to be cautious )

LEVEL 5- Compelled with compassion to offer financial help or transport to hospital, airport needs..Raise others, intercessors to pray for the offenders plight of trial. ( memory of offence in the unconscious mind. Pushed and willing to leave it there ,as heart is motivated genuinely help the offender, Holy Spirit conviction is strong, daily reading of the word stirs to be good to the enemy.

LEVEL 6 – Uncondional forgiveness- With comes only with an anointing. The anointing is released when you ask God for such a level of forgiveness. Either for a motivation or ministry in which forgiveness is vital or the key. (memory of offence totally gone, fleetingly comes and goes without any pain of mind . Wanting the good of the offender at any cost, blessing and praying in a daily manner ) Able to love that person in Christ.

When you forgive anyone, these are fruits that should be seen in you
1. resisting revenge,
2. not returning evil for evil,
3. wishing them well,
4. grieving at their calamities,
5. praying for their welfare,
6. seeking reconciliation so far as it depends on you,
7. and coming to their aid in distress..

HOW DOES ONE FORGIVE?

To be able to forgive let’s understand what forgiveness all is about. Forgiveness has many facets like the facets of a diamond.

If you can picture forgiveness just like this diamond (metamorphically) – it has many facets. Some of these are: Kindness, meekness, humbleness, compassion, mercy, self-control, thankfulness, gratitude, patience, Long suffering, peace, contentment and LOVE. I will attempt to give you a glimpse of each of these facets in one sentence or two. Meditate and apply one by one of these into your soul and forgiveness will just begin to flow, to have and to hold. Here are some facets:

KINDNESS: Is the quality of being warm hearted and considerate, humane and sympathetic.

MEEKNESS: Is to be gentle, kind humbly patient or docile under provocation from others.

HUMBLENESS: Is having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's importance.

COMPASSION : A feeling of deep sympathy. Empathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
MERCY: Compassionate treatment, especially of those under one's power; clemency.

SELF CONTROL: Is the ability to regulate one's emotions, thoughts, and behaviour in the face of temptations and impulses.

THANKFULNESS: Is expressing gratitude and relief. Inventory of all what you have/be blessed with.

GRATITUDE: The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. It helps overcome shortcomings from others.

PATIENCE: The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious.

LONG SUFFERING: Is - patiently enduring lasting offense or hardship..

PEACE: Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence .Enables to extend love.

CONTENTMENT: a state of happiness and satisfaction that can extend shortcomings of others.

LOVE: Love is considered to be a positive with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection. Bearing, overcoming, overlooking all wrong.

A TESTIMONEY : Susan had lost a lot of money. Thousands of hard earned money she had given in safe keeping to her friend Millie, while she was travelling abroad for six months. Susan somehow dint trust the bank she had banked as there were rumours of banks freezing assets and bank accounts at the time of her travel.

When she came back and asked for her money back, Susan was told that all the money was gone !!!, Millie had with good intention try to invest the money with the share market without consulting her best friend Susan. This was the story Millie conveyed to Susan without much remorse really. Her point was she has tried to do good and did not do this purposefully. This attitude made it worse and extremely difficult .Susan was angry traumatised, it increasingly became wrath and turned to bitterness .She just couldn’t forgive or forgive and forgive. She was outraged. Her life was ruined with financial constraints, go back to full time work and was justified with this turn of fuming and furious state of affairs within her.

Susan asked for prayer as the burden became intolerable but nothing seem to lessen the pain of mind and betrayal. Her Bible study group prayed fervently and often discussed these facets of forgiveness with Susan. Suddenly one morning Susan woke early ion the morning and thought pf applying COMPASSION into this mountain of turmoil. She suddenly felt the Holy Spirit remind her of the Millie’s life, Millie’s early years of poverty and often being humiliated by rich relatives. Susan’s heart softened and she felt inclined to ask God to help her to forgive and remove all unkind thoughts of vengeance she had built within her.

I believe Susan experienced FORGIVENESS within a few weeks . (A true story )
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