FAITH CAPSULE: Go and forgive, receive and move forward because there is power in giving and blessing in receiving.

Matthew 6:1-15
 
A heart that does not know how to give will not know how to receive. Jesus, in His lesson about how to pray, Matthew 6:12, “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” Any heart that does not know how to give is set to be on his own and heading in the direction of temptation and the evil one. It could be that you have not been able to receive yours because you have refused to stop going around carrying and nursing how your brethren has offended you years ago. Jesus taught it and it is clear that one need to go and tear one’s diary of animosity, woes, anger and plan for revenge. Go and forgive, receive and move forward because there is power in giving and blessing in receiving.
John 1:1-3, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” This same Word is the one that comes from God. This same Word is the one that comes to give life. John 10:10, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” The Word is here and not that He will be here sometimes. The purpose of the Word being here as stated by Him is to give life. In His giving of life, there will be abundance in it. The life He came to give can only be received by every believer that knows how to receive it. Are you a believer that knows how to forgive and move from the past into life that is in the Word? As regard to forgiveness and prayer cannot be separated. Jesus points it out, “… whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”(Matthew 11:25-26) As a believer that desires the blessing of forgiving and receiving, give up not being able to forgive and let your prayer bring forth all that is set for you to receive.

Prayer for today: Ask God for forgiveness for not having been forgiving as much as it should be. Also, ask for the grace to be forgiving as often as there is a need.