Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from David Crowder singing Forgiven … powerfully singing of the forgiveness received for anyone who surrenders to receive Christ’s forgiveness and then can go on to forgive others.
Forgiveness? ... Really !!
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Highlight Verse[s]: Luke 1:76-77 [NLT] ... 76 “And you, my little son, will be called the prophet of the Most High, because you will prepare the way for the Lord. 77 You will tell his people how to find salvation through forgiveness of their sins.
… Zechariah’s prophesy of His son, John, being the prophet of the forgiving Messiah.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Luke 1:76-79 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Luke, relates the prophesy of John, the Baptist’s, father who prophesied the Messiah would come to forgive His people of their sins.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 17:9 [NLT] ... 9 Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends.
… Solomon on the results of genuine forgiveness.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 5:39-41 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus preaches on forgiveness to His followers.
Reference Passage : … Luke 23:34 [NLT] … 34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” ...
… Jesus models forgiveness as He hung on the cross, … nailed there by the sins of mankind.
Reference Passage : … Colossians 3:13 [NLT] … 13 Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.
… Paul urged fellow Christian (and us) to forgive the faults of others just as Christ has forgiven us for our sins.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Elisa Morgan, uses the coverage of the Columbine High School shooting to illustrate the need for Christians to be able to forgive others. … The ODB author wrote: As a middle-schooler, Patrick Ireland first sensed God had chosen him for something. But what? Later as a survivor of the horrific Columbine (Colorado) High School massacre where thirteen were killed and twenty-four wounded, [See Photo] … Patrick began to understand an answer.
Through his long recovery, Patrick learned that clinging to bitterness causes further wounding. God showed Patrick that the key to forgiveness is to stop focusing on what others have done to us and to focus on what Jesus has done for us.
Do we realize, as young Patrick in the ODB story did, … that we have been given the forgiveness of God’s grace from the cross so that we can become beacons of forgiveness to others in our lives. Young Patrick finally came to learn the lessons taught by Christ and the Scriptures above; … and I pray today we have learned them as well.
So, to whom do we need to carry the forgiveness of Christ today? As Crowder sings, … we are forgiven so that we can become forgivers.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for Your blood giving me the power to forgive others in Your Name and for Your glory.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, and forgive others in our lives who have wronged us just as our Lord has forgiven us. Amen
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