LET IT GO!!!

A few years ago, I heard this message but took it for granted. Flash forward: 4 years later I saw it again on Facebook and  I wished I had payed attention when I first heard it. It could have turned my life around 4 years earlier. It doesn't matter if you have heard it before, do yourself good by hearing it again.
Its a short message of Forgiveness, of True Love, Of a healthy and  peaceful Living and of Trust in God.

Ladies and Gentlemen I present you one of the greatest messages I have ever heard. I hope it changes your life as it did mine.

LET IT GO! !!!
By Bishop TD Jakes.

There are people who can walk away from you. And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk. 

I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone.

When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. 

The Bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19] 

People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay. Let them go. 

And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead. You've got to know when it's dead. You've got to know when it's over.

Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.

Stop begging people to stay. Let them go!! 

If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to
. . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! 

If you are holding on to past hurts and pains
. . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! 

If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth
. . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! 

If someone has angered you
. . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! 

If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge
. . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! 

If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction
. . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! 

If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents
. . . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! 

If you have a bad attitude
. . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!!

If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better
. . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! 

If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him
. . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! 

If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship
. . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! 

If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves
. . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! 

If you're feeling depressed and stressed . . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! 

If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it," then you need to
. . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! 

Let the past be the past Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing for you.
..........LET IT GO!!! 

Get Right or Get Left. think about it, and then
. . . . . . . . LET IT GO!!! "

The Battle is the Lord's!"

FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES…

FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES…
Bishop Jakes shares.  

No matter who you are or what your personality is, it is impossible to live this life without some conflict along the way, Offenses come to everyone and they are a part of life. 

Bishop Jakes says, “…conflicts can be resolved and relationships do have a future, if we learn to forgive.”  We must be willing to look at our own ability to hurt, offend, and injure those around us, (who are often the people we love the most) in order to forgive others. 

The Lord’s Prayer provides us with a key insight into how we can experience the joy and abundant life Jesus came to bring us  “Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us (Matt. 6-11 KJV). 

Bishop Jakes says many people don’t realize when they pray this prayer they are asking God to forgive them  the same way they are forgiving (or not forgiving) others. 

Also that these words tie my forgiveness with my willingness to forgive, and remind us of the way our hearts work.  If we are not humbled with unwavering gratitude for what we have been forgiven, then it will be very difficult for us to forgive other people for what they do to us. 

He also says that an opportunity for you to forgive an offender is not so much a test of how you handle power as it is how you handle mercy. 

There is a thin line between the offended and the offender.  It is not that God is punishing us in this prayer but rather our human capacity to receive God’s grace is blocked when we are not willing to forgive those who have hurt us.  We cannot embrace God’s forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. 

In order to move into the blessings of our future, we must relinquish the pains of the past. …

AS WE FORGIVE...

As adults we realize that we serve a forgiving God.  Our God is powerful and righteous and also merciful and compassionate.  It’s not that He just acts merciful to His children, but mercy is at the very heart of who He is. 

The reason His mercy is new every morning is that yesterday’s mercy removed all record of yesterday’s mistakes.  This means God is ready to start fresh again with us today.  He doesn’t hold our mistakes over our heads like people do. 

If we are to be forgiven, then we must be prepared to give forgiveness.  Bishop Jakes asks the question, if you can admit that you need forgiveness, then why won’t you give it?  Instead of being a conduit of his mercy, we who have often received it then deny it in a false sense of piety and religious purity.

Source: CBN
http://www.cbn.com/700club/guests/bios/td_jakes_032212.aspx