Come and See What the Lord has Done to Me!

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
New Living Translation (NLT)
16 Always be joyful. 17 Never stop praying. 18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.

This is my desire to honor you Lord with all my heart I'll worship you. All I have within me I give you praise.All that I adore is in you. Lord I give you my heart I give you my soul I live for you alone every breath that I take every moment I'm awake Lord have your way in me. -I Give You My Heart by Hillsong 


I just recently learned that hurt people only hurt people. Hurt people only hurt people. It's something that keeps playing in my head for some reason. Anyway this past weekend I was at church for our Encounter God Retreat. Boy did we encounter God. We surrendered so many things we've been holding onto inside. It was really a healing and releasing experience. The Holy Spirit fell down on all of us and people fell to their knees in humility before God and cried out praying and praying for the people they've wronged and the people who have wronged them. It was an amazing experience. 


Not forgiving is a sin. Not forgiving is a sin just like all the others. I ask myself, Rhia why do you let  these wrongs from the past hurt you? Why do you hold onto them? You know for a fact that the only person who is hurting by you holding a grudge is yourself. The only way you can be joyful is to surrender the hurts nail them to the cross and accept the healing God has to offer. What takes you so long to forgive? Really why do I take so long to absolutely forget the wrong that someone did to me no matter how painful when God never hesitates to forgive me? He never ever hesitates to forgive me. When Jesus died on that cross he took on all my bad and all the bad of the world on him and transferred his good into us so that we would be forgiven. Why would I hold that gift back from someone else?

I was glad that I went to the encounter I let go of ALL the things that have held me down. I released all the junk that was held in my heart. I surrendered all of that stuff at the cross for by his stripes we are healed. I am healed and restored. Now the Holy Spirit can move freely through my heart. Each time a memory pops up about something bad that happened to me I'll kick it out. I hope that just as God wipes my slate clean and forgets all the wrong I have done in this life I will do the same for all other people.

Forget forget forget the wrongs as easily as names slip from short termed memory minds. Then you can live freely from those self inflicted moments of torture to your achy breaky heart and forgive. Surrender it all. God wants the best for you. By the stripes of Jesus we were healed once and for all so you no longer have to hurt anymore. Now walk in freedom, because hurt people only hurt people.

Isaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.