¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ SPEND MY LIFE ¤ 00:00:05.20\00:00:09.67 ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ 00:00:09.67\00:00:13.01 ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ REMOVING PAIN ¤ 00:00:13.01\00:00:26.49 ¤ LORD LET MY WORDS ¤ ¤ HEAL UP HEARTS THAT HURT ¤ 00:00:26.49\00:00:34.60 ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ 00:00:34.60\00:00:47.38 ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ 00:00:47.38\00:00:57.19 >> HELLO AND WELCOME TO 3ABN "TODAY LIVE." 00:01:07.30\00:01:11.57 THIS IS OUR THURSDAY NIGHT PROGRAM. 00:01:11.57\00:01:12.73 OUR TWO HOURS WHERE WE GET TO COME INTO YOUR HOME, AND WE GET 00:01:12.73\00:01:17.21 TO OPEN UP THE WORD OF GOD AND SHARE FROM OUR HEARTS TO YOURS, 00:01:17.21\00:01:21.08 AND CONNECT WITH YOU, AS PART OF OUR 3ABN FAMILY. 00:01:21.08\00:01:24.98 FIRST OF ALL I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE, YOUR 00:01:24.98\00:01:28.32 PRAYERS, YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THIS MINISTRY. 00:01:28.32\00:01:30.55 BECAUSE OF THAT, BECAUSE OF YOU, BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU DO FOR THIS 00:01:30.55\00:01:35.46 MINISTRY, THE GOSPEL MESSAGE, THE UNDILUTED THREE ANGELS 00:01:35.46\00:01:41.43 MESSAGES CAN BE BROADCAST AROUND THE WORLD. 00:01:41.43\00:01:44.07 SO WE'RE SO DELIGHTED YOU YOINED US TONIGHT. 00:01:44.07\00:01:47.50 MY NAME IS JILL MORIKONE. AND YOU MIGHT SAY, WE'RE MISSING 00:01:47.50\00:01:51.67 SOME OF OUR KEY PEOPLE. BUT TONIGHT IS GIRLS' NIGHT OUT. 00:01:51.67\00:01:56.38 AND WE'RE SHARING ON THE TOPIC OF FORGIVENESS. 00:01:56.38\00:02:00.15 THE FREEDOM YOU AND I CAN EXPERIENCE IN FORGIVENESS. 00:02:00.15\00:02:03.89 SO I'M EXCITED ABOUT WHAT GOD HAS IN STORE, EXCITED TO OPEN UP 00:02:03.89\00:02:08.52 THE WORD OF GOD, AND IT'S A LIVE PROGRAM, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO 00:02:08.52\00:02:12.86 YOUR QUESTIONS. FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO INTRODUCE 00:02:12.86\00:02:15.66 YOU TO MY SISTERS IN JESUS. I COULD SAY MY MOMS AND MENTORS, 00:02:15.66\00:02:20.47 AND WE HAVE WITH US SHELLEY QUINN, YOUR PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT 00:02:20.47\00:02:23.37 MANAGER FOR 3ABN, AND JUST SUCH A WOMAN OF GOD, AND MY SISTER, 00:02:23.37\00:02:28.04 AND IT'S A JOY TO HAVE YOU HERE. >> IT'S A JOY TO BE HERE. 00:02:28.04\00:02:33.18 AND WE'RE TALKING TONIGHT ABOUT THE FREEDOM OF FORGIVENESS, 00:02:33.18\00:02:37.39 WHERE WE'RE FORGIVING OTHERS. WE'RE NOT TALKING SO MUCH ABOUT 00:02:37.39\00:02:41.49 GOD FORGIVING US AS -- IF YOU ARE HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME FOR 00:02:41.49\00:02:45.99 KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTY IN FORGIVING SOMEONE, 00:02:45.99\00:02:51.03 THEN PLEASE CALL THEM AND HAVE THEM TUNE IN TONIGHT. 00:02:51.03\00:02:53.40 >> AMEN. AND SITTING NEXT TO SHELLEY IS 00:02:53.40\00:02:57.94 MOLLIE STEENSON, OUR VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER, 00:02:57.94\00:03:00.11 AND BOSS, AND MOM, AND WOMAN OF GOD. 00:03:00.11\00:03:02.88 AND YOU BOTH HAVE EXPERIENCED FORGIVENESS, PERSONALLY, BUT YOU 00:03:02.88\00:03:07.72 HAVE EXTENDED FORGIVENESS, EXPE 00:03:07.72\00:03:13.66 EXPERIENCED GOD'S FORGIVENESS AS WELL. 00:03:13.66\00:03:17.19 IT'S A JOY TO HAVE YOU HERE, SHELLEY. 00:03:17.19\00:03:20.30 >> IT'S A JOY TO BE HERE. ALWAYS HONORED AND A LITLE ODD 00:03:20.30\00:03:24.27 THAT THE LORD WOULD USE ME TO -- TO MINISTER WITH SUCH NICE 00:03:24.27\00:03:28.84 LADIES, AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST REALLY FEEL LIKE TONIGHT THAT 00:03:28.84\00:03:32.07 THERE IS A -- A MESSAGE, AND A SPECIAL ONE TO REACH OUT AND 00:03:32.07\00:03:37.75 TOUCH NEEDS OF HURTING PEOPLE. SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEE 00:03:37.75\00:03:41.28 WHAT GOD DOES IN YOUR LIFE. >> AMEN. 00:03:41.28\00:03:43.59 I AM TOO. I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS 00:03:43.59\00:03:46.65 PROGRAM, BECAUSE IT IS SUCH A NEED. 00:03:46.65\00:03:48.72 WHEN GREG AND I GO OU AND TRAVEL AND SPEAK, OR WHEN YOU 00:03:48.72\00:03:52.06 CALL THE OFFICE HERE, SO MANY PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH -- I HAVE 00:03:52.06\00:03:55.93 BEEN HURT. I HAVE BEEN -- SOMEONE HAS HURT 00:03:55.93\00:03:58.20 ME. I HAVE BEEN ABUSED FROM A CHILD. 00:03:58.20\00:04:01.84 I HAVE DEEP WOUNDS INSIDE, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO BREAK FREE. 00:04:01.84\00:04:06.57 I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET RELIEF, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FORGIVE 00:04:06.57\00:04:12.65 SOMEONE ELSE FOR WHAT HAS TAKEN PLACE. 00:04:12.65\00:04:15.28 SO IF YOU ARE THIS PERSON, OR YOU KNOW SOMEONE IN THAT 00:04:15.28\00:04:18.69 POSITION, THIS PROGRAM IS FOR YOU. 00:04:18.69\00:04:20.59 WE'RE GOING TO SHARE AN EXCITING NEW DEVELOPMENT THAT IS JUST 00:04:20.59\00:04:23.83 TAKING PLACE AS WELL, BEFORE WE REALLY LAUNCH INTO OUR PROGRAM, 00:04:23.83\00:04:26.96 BUT BEFORE ALL OF THAT, I STANNED TO SHARE A SHORT STORY. 00:04:26.96\00:04:33.03 THIS COMES FROM THE BEDOUIN CULTURE, AND THAT'S THE NAME FOR 00:04:33.03\00:04:37.34 DESSERT DWELLERS, THEY DWELL IN TENTS OUT IN THE DESERT. 00:04:37.34\00:04:44.38 AND THIS YOUNG MAN HAD AN ARGUMENT WITH ANOTHER YOUNG MAN. 00:04:44.38\00:04:47.55 AND HE ENDED UP KILLING THE OTHER YOUNG MAN. 00:04:47.55\00:04:50.22 THE ONE WHO HAD MURDERED SOMEONE, THEY HAD IN THEIR 00:04:50.22\00:04:54.19 CULTURE, IF THEY FLED TO THE TRIBAL CHIEF'S TENT, THEY WOULD 00:04:54.19\00:04:58.56 BE SAFE UNTIL THEY HELDTHEIR SORT OF TRIAL, SO HE RAN THROUGH 00:04:58.56\00:05:02.43 THE DESERT AND ARRIVED AT THE TRIBAL CHIEF, AND HE WAS AN OLD 00:05:02.43\00:05:06.67 MAN, THE TRIBAL CHIEF, AND HE WENT IN, AND HE SAID, PLEASE CAN 00:05:06.67\00:05:12.64 I FIND REFUGE AND SAFETY HERE? AND IT REMINDS ME OF THE OLD 00:05:12.64\00:05:18.11 TESTAMENT AND HOW THEY HAD CITIES OF REFUGE. 00:05:18.11\00:05:22.18 AND THE TRIBAL CHIEF SAID YOU CAN SAY, UNTIL WE FIND OUT WHAT 00:05:22.18\00:05:26.59 IS GOING ON, IN THE MEANTIME YOU WILL BE SAFE IN MY TENT, IN MY 00:05:26.59\00:05:32.23 HOME. THE NEXT THE PURSUERS CAME AFTER 00:05:32.23\00:05:34.63 THE YOUNG MAN WHO DID THE MURDERING. 00:05:34.63\00:05:37.27 AND THEY SAID WE ARE HERE FOR JUSTICE, AND THE TRIBAL CHIEF 00:05:37.27\00:05:41.60 STOOD IN THE DOOR OF HIS TENT, AND HE SAID NO, NOT RIGHT NOW. 00:05:41.60\00:05:47.34 IT HAS TO GO BEFORE THE WHOLE -- WHATEVER, THE WHOLE 00:05:47.34\00:05:52.28 VILLAGE, HOWEVER THEY ESTABLISH THEIR JUSTICE. 00:05:52.28\00:05:56.05 YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR THAT. AND THEY SAID BUT YOU HAVE NO 00:05:56.05\00:05:59.92 IDEA WHO THIS YOUNG MAN KILLED. AND THE OLD MAN SAID, NO, YOU 00:05:59.92\00:06:04.33 HAVE TO WAIT FOR THAT. AND THEY SAID WAIT A MINUTE, YOU 00:06:04.33\00:06:07.66 DON'T KNOW. IT WAS YOUR SON THAT HE KILLED. 00:06:07.66\00:06:10.67 AND THE OLD MAN JUST BOWED HIS HEAD AND HE WAS QUIET A LONG 00:06:10.67\00:06:14.30 TIME, AND THE ACCUSED AND THE ACCUSER STOOD THERE, WHAT IS HE 00:06:14.30\00:06:19.64 GOING TO SAY? AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HE RAISED 00:06:19.64\00:06:22.88 HIS HEAD, AND HE SAID, THEN, HE WILL BECOME MY SON, AND WHEN I 00:06:22.88\00:06:27.45 PASS ON, HE WILL INHERIT EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE. 00:06:27.45\00:06:31.95 TO ME, THAT IS AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF FORGIVENESS. 00:06:31.95\00:06:37.69 >> SOUNDS LIKE THE STORY OF WHAT GOD DID, DOESN'T IT? 00:06:37.69\00:06:41.10 >> YES, DOESN'T IT? >> YEAH. 00:06:41.10\00:06:43.00 >> ABSOLUTELY. IT'S AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF 00:06:43.00\00:06:47.47 FORGIVENESS, SO WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT FORGIVENESS. 00:06:47.47\00:06:52.61 WHAT IS FORGIVENESS, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GO ON DOING THAT? 00:06:52.61\00:06:57.55 WE'LL LOOK AT TRUST AND ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS? 00:06:57.55\00:06:59.85 GO AHEAD, MOLLIE. >> THAT JUST REMINDED ME OF THE 00:06:59.85\00:07:03.25 SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS THE NAME OF THE LORD IS A STRONG COWARD THE 00:07:03.25\00:07:08.32 RIGHTEOUS RUN INTO IT, AND THEY ARE SAFE. 00:07:08.32\00:07:10.99 >> AMEN. >> SO WE HAVE A PLACE OF REFUGE 00:07:10.99\00:07:15.00 WE CAN RUN INTO AS WELL, AND IT'S INTO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. 00:07:15.00\00:07:20.24 >> AMEN. LET'S OPEN WITH A SCRIPTURE, 00:07:20.24\00:07:26.14 COLOSSIANS 3, AND DO YOU HAVE THAT, SHELLEY, VERSUS 12 AND 13. 00:07:26.14\00:07:31.75 >> COLOSSIANS 3:12-13, THEREFORE AS THE ELECTED GOD HOLY AND 00:07:31.75\00:07:38.69 BELOVED PUT ON TENDER MERCIES, KINDNESS, HUMILITY, LONG 00:07:38.69\00:07:46.43 SUFFERING, BEARING WITH ONE ANOTHER AND FORGIVING ONE 00:07:46.43\00:07:50.20 ANOTHER. IF ANYONE HAS A COMPLAINT 00:07:50.20\00:07:53.67 AGAINST ANOTHER, EVEN AS CHRIST FORGAVE YOU, SO YOU ALSO MUST 00:07:53.67\00:08:02.28 -DO. THAT'S -- THAT'S A TALL, TALL ORDE 00:08:02.28\00:08:12.75 OR ORDER, ISN'T IT? 00:08:12.75\00:08:13.86 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT AND-pHOW TO GET INTO 00:08:13.86\00:08:17.33 THAT. >> COULD I JUST READ THE NEXT SCRIPTURE BECAUSE I THINK 00:08:17.33\00:08:20.60 THAT'S THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THIS. >> THANK YOU. 00:08:20.60\00:08:23.03 >> IT SAYS ABOVE ALL OF THESE THINGS PUT ON LOVE, WHICH IS THE 00:08:23.03\00:08:26.90 BOND OF PERFECTION, AND THE ONLY WAY THAT WE CAN FORGIVE OTHERS 00:08:26.90\00:08:32.61 AS CHRIST HAS FORGIVEN US IS IF WE HAVE LOVE OF GOD IN OUR 00:08:32.61\00:08:38.91 HEART. IT'S AS IF GOD ENABLES US TO 00:08:38.91\00:08:42.95 FORGIVE. >> AMEN. 00:08:42.95\00:08:43.72 WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU, THIS IS A LIVE PROGRAM. 00:08:43.72\00:08:47.02 AND WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. WE WANT YOUR QUESTIONS ON 00:08:47.02\00:08:51.26 FORGIVENESS, WHAT YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH HOW WE CAN PRAY 00:08:51.26\00:08:56.60 FOR YOU. SO FEEL FREE TO EMAIL US AT 00:08:56.60\00:09:09.84 3ABN.TV. OR YO CAN ALWAYS CALL OUT AT 00:09:09.84\00:09:13.65 618-627-4651. THAT NUMBER ONCE AGAIN IS 00:09:13.65\00:09:16.75 618-627-4651. AND WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. 00:09:16.75\00:09:19.49 I KNOW WE SENT AN EMAIL OUT EARLIER TODAY, AND I ALREADY 00:09:19.49\00:09:22.99 HAVE SOME QUESTIONS, SO THOSE WHO SENT IN AN EMAIL AHEAD OF 00:09:22.99\00:09:26.56 TIME, WE GIVE YOU PRIORITY, AND THE SECOND HOUR WE'LL KICK OFF 00:09:26.56\00:09:30.83 WITH THESE QUESTIONS AND THEN PLEASE CALL IN YOUR QUESTIONS 00:09:30.83\00:09:33.80 NOW AND YOUR PRAYER NEEDS REGARDING FORGIVENESS AND WE'LL 00:09:33.80\00:09:37.74 BE HAPPY TO TACKLE THAT BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR MUSIC AND 00:09:37.74\00:09:41.94 REALLY JUMP INTO OUR TOPIC, THOUGH. 00:09:41.94\00:09:45.25 IN THE NEWS RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF NATURAL DISASTERS GOING 00:09:45.25\00:09:49.08 ON. WE HAVE BEEN HEARING ABOUT 00:09:49.08\00:09:51.52 HURRICANE HARVEY IN HOUSTON AND THE INCREDIBLE DEVASTATION. 00:09:51.52\00:09:54.39 WHAT IS AMAZING TO ME IS A LOT OF WHAT IS TAKING PLACE WE WERE 00:09:54.39\00:09:59.83 JUST IN HOUSTON RIGHT THERE AT THE CONVENTION CENTER AND WHERE 00:09:59.83\00:10:03.26 THEY ARE BRINGING IN THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE WITHOUT A HOME, 00:10:03.26\00:10:06.84 AND IN ADDITION, RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE HURRICANE IRMA THAT IS 00:10:06.84\00:10:12.37 CAUSING TREMENDOUS HAVOC. >> YES. 00:10:12.37\00:10:15.11 J.D. AND I WERE SUPPOSED TO BE FLYING OUT TOMORROW TO BARBADOS, 00:10:15.11\00:10:20.12 AND ALL OF THE FLIGHTS HAVE BEN CANCELED OUT OF MIAMI, AND 00:10:20.12\00:10:24.42 THERE'S NO OTHER WAY. ALL FLIGHT GOES TO MIAMI, AND 00:10:24.42\00:10:27.99 THEN ON TO BARBADOS. BUT -- AND WE HAD PRAYED SO 00:10:27.99\00:10:35.43 EARNESTLY. LORD, WE DIDN'T WANT TO CANCEL, 00:10:35.43\00:10:37.87 UNLESS IT WAS JUST GOING TO BE IMPOSSIBLE TO GET THERE. 00:10:37.87\00:10:41.57 SO WE WERE PRAYING WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD GO TO THESE 00:10:41.57\00:10:44.84 REPRESENTS AND -- FOR SPEAKING, AND THEN AMERICAN AIRLINES 00:10:44.84\00:10:48.48 CANCELED THE FLIGHTS, SO WHAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW WITH 00:10:48.48\00:10:52.05 HURRICANE IRMA, I THINK THE GREATEST DESTRUCTION HAS BEEN IN 00:10:52.05\00:11:00.22 BARBUDA, AND THERE 90% OF THE HOMES HAVE BEEN TOTALLY 00:11:00.22\00:11:04.03 DESTROYED. >> 90%. 00:11:04.03\00:11:04.99 >> 90%. AND IT LOOKS LIKE A BOMB WENT 00:11:04.99\00:11:09.23 OFF. THIS IS AN OPPOCK LIP TICK 00:11:09.23\00:11:14.44 EVENT. THE SAD THING IS BEHIND 00:11:14.44\00:11:19.41 HURRICANE IRMA IS HURRICANE JOSE, WHICH WILL LIKELY COVER 00:11:19.41\00:11:23.85 THE SAME PATH. >> UH-HUH. 00:11:23.85\00:11:25.31 >> SO THEY ARE TRYING RIGHT NOW TO -- THE PRIME MINISTER OF 00:11:25.31\00:11:31.69 BARBUDA IS TRYING TO EVACUATE ALL OF HIS PEOPLE. 00:11:31.69\00:11:35.29 IT WILL BE MONTHS BEFORE THE ELECTRICITY IS BACK ON THERE. 00:11:35.29\00:11:38.73 NO WATER, NO ELECTRICITY. SO WE NEED TO BE PRAYING FOR ALL 00:11:38.73\00:11:42.50 WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THIS. BUT WE ALSO NEED TO BE PRAYING 00:11:42.50\00:11:46.47 FOR THE UNITED STATES, BECAUSE THIS HURRICANE IS BARRELLING 00:11:46.47\00:11:49.94 TOWARDS MIAMI. HUGE CONE. 00:11:49.94\00:11:51.74 THIS IS A HUGE HURRICANE. >> UH-HUH. 00:11:51.74\00:11:55.64 IT HAS BEEN A CATEGORY 5. >> YES. 00:11:55.64\00:11:59.11 AND THANKFULLY THEY THINK IT WILL BE DOWN TO A CATEGORY 4 00:11:59.11\00:12:02.65 WHEN IT HITS FLORIDA, BUT THEN THEY ARE EXPECTING IT TO GO UP 00:12:02.65\00:12:06.45 THE COAST TO GEORGIA AND THE CAROLINAS. 00:12:06.45\00:12:09.59 SO THERE IS GOING TO BE A LOT OF PEOPLE AFFECTED. 00:12:09.59\00:12:12.16 >> YES. >> WE REALLY NEED TO BE PRAYING 00:12:12.16\00:12:14.50 FOR GOD'S MERCY. >> AND WE WANT TO SPENDING SOME 00:12:14.50\00:12:17.83 TIME IN PRAYER FOR THOSE WHO WILL BE IMPACTED COMING UP, AND 00:12:17.83\00:12:21.60 THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN IMPACTED. 00:12:21.60\00:12:24.04 BUT WE HAVE A SPECIAL, WONDERFUL OFFER FOR YOU TONIGHT. 00:12:24.04\00:12:28.81 ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LIVE IN THESE AREAS. 00:12:28.81\00:12:33.15 DANNY SHELTON WROTE THIS LITTLE BOOKLET, IT'S JUST A FEW PAGES 00:12:33.15\00:12:37.92 AFTER THE STORM, AND HE WROTE IT ACTUALLY A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO 00:12:37.92\00:12:43.63 INITIALLY, AND IT WAS AFTER HURRICANE SANDY THAT TOOK PLACE 00:12:43.63\00:12:46.53 IN NEW YORK IN OCTOBER OF '12, AND THERE ARE MANY OTHER NATURAL 00:12:46.53\00:12:52.57 DISASTERS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE ALL OVER THE WORLD. 00:12:52.57\00:12:58.14 KATRINA, AND THE TSUNAMI IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. 00:12:58.14\00:13:01.81 AND DANNY ASKS THE QUESTION WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 00:13:01.81\00:13:05.85 DEVASTATION? WHERE IS GOD IN THE MIDST OF 00:13:05.85\00:13:09.05 THIS? AND HOW DO WE FIND HOPE AFTER 00:13:09.05\00:13:11.62 THE STORM?-AND WE ARE -- PACIFIC PRESS CONTACTED DANNY, AND THEY 00:13:11.62\00:13:17.63 ARE REPRINTING THIS BOOK -- THIS BOOKLET, I SHOULD SAY, 200,000 00:13:17.63\00:13:21.60 OF THEM EVEN AS WE SPEAK, AND WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU.-THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE FREE OF 00:13:21.60\00:13:27.87 CHARGE, AND MOLLIE, I DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS ANY SHIPPING IN 00:13:27.87\00:13:31.77 THIS BOOK EITHER. >> NO. 00:13:31.77\00:13:34.08 WE'RE WANTING TO GET THIS LITTLE BOOKLET IN THE HANDS OF AS MANY 00:13:34.08\00:13:38.58 PEOPLE AS WE POSSIBLY CAN, BECAUSE IT DOES ANSWER 00:13:38.58\00:13:42.02 QUESTIONS. SEE, SO MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING 00:13:42.02\00:13:44.12 THROUGH A DEVASTATING TIME RIGHT NOW. 00:13:44.12\00:13:46.09 THEY HAVE LOST EVERYTHING. >> YES. 00:13:46.09\00:13:47.22 >> AND THEY ARE ASKING QUESTIONS, AND -- AND THE 00:13:47.22\00:13:50.89 QUESTIONS THEY ARE ASKING IS WHAT NOW? 00:13:50.89\00:13:52.86 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? AND THIS LITTLE BOOKLET. 00:13:52.86\00:13:57.93 THIS LITTLE PAMPHLET ANSWERS THOSE QUESTIONS. 00:13:57.93\00:14:07.78 IT'S A THEOLOGICALLY SOUND BOOK, AND WHAT WE WANT IS FOR CHURCHES 00:14:07.78\00:14:14.12 TO -- TO ORDER AS MANY AS YOU FEEL LIKE YOU CAN GIVE OUT IN 00:14:14.12\00:14:18.55 THESE AFFECTED AREAS. IF YOU ARE NOT IN THESE AFFECTS 00:14:18.55\00:14:22.49 AREAS, REALLY THIS BOOK IS INTENDED FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE 00:14:22.49\00:14:25.83 SUFFERING NOW. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:14:25.83\00:14:27.50 >> AND IF WE CAN GET THOSE BOOKS INTO THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE IN 00:14:27.50\00:14:30.83 THE SHELTERS, AND THE PEOPLE THAT -- THAT HAVE LOST 00:14:30.83\00:14:33.97 EVERYTHING. IT WILL GIVE THEM HOPE IN THAT 00:14:33.97\00:14:36.60 THIS TIME WHEN THEY ARE BOUND TO BE FEELING SO HOPELESS. 00:14:36.60\00:14:40.38 SO IF YOU ARE A PASTOR IN YOUR CHURCH, AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO 00:14:40.38\00:14:44.98 BE A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, IF YOU ARE A PATOR AND 00:14:44.98\00:14:48.45 LEADER IN YOUR COMMUNITY, ANYONE THAT IS IN A POSITION OF 00:14:48.45\00:14:53.39 RESPONSIBILITY THAT CAN TAKE THESE BOOKS AND GET THEM IN THE 00:14:53.39\00:14:56.39 HANDS OF THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE URT -- HURTING, WE WANT TO MAKE 00:14:56.39\00:15:01.73 THEM AVAILABLE TO YOU >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:15:01.73\00:15:06.33 WE'RE DOING BULK QUANTITY OF THESE BOOKLETS. 00:15:06.33\00:15:14.14 ORDER ONE BOX, WHICH WOULD BE 500 OF THESE BOOKLETS, OR TWO 00:15:14.14\00:15:19.31 FOR A THOUSAND, OR FOUR BOXES AND GET 2,000 OF THEM. 00:15:19.31\00:15:22.48 WHATEVER YOU THINK IN YOUR COMMUNITY THAT YOU CAN PASS OUT. 00:15:22.48\00:15:25.12 AND LIKE YOU SAID, MOLLIE, WE'RE SPECIFICALLY APPEALING TO THE 00:15:25.12\00:15:30.73 CHURCHES, TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE INFLUENCE IN THE 00:15:30.73\00:15:33.83 HOUSTON AREA, IN THE TEXAS AREA, IN THE LOUISIANA AREA, IN THE 00:15:33.83\00:15:38.80 FLORIDA AREA, AND THOSE AFFECTED BY HURRICANE HARVEY OR WILL BE 00:15:38.80\00:15:43.41 AFFECTED BY HURRICANE IRMA, BECAUSE THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY 00:15:43.41\00:15:46.34 TO SHARE THE GOSPEL, TO PLANT A SEED OF HOPE WITH SOMEONE WHO IS 00:15:46.34\00:15:50.58 ASKING QUESTIONS. WITH SOMEONE WHO HAS LOST 00:15:50.58\00:15:52.91 EVERYTHING. AS MOLLIE MENTIONED IT IS 00:15:52.91\00:15:56.55 BIBLICALLY SOUND. IT'S A GREAT READ. 00:15:56.55\00:15:59.12 A GREAT BOOK, A GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT, AND WE HAVE 00:15:59.12\00:16:03.09 200,000 OF THESE BOOKS THAT PACIFIC PRESS WILL BE SHIPPING 00:16:03.09\00:16:05.86 OUT FREE OF CHARGE. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CALL THE 00:16:05.86\00:16:09.33 CALL CENTER TONIGHT. CALL US AT 618-627-4651. 00:16:09.33\00:16:16.60 WE HAVE OPERATORS STANDING BY TO TAKE YOUR ORDER. 00:16:16.60\00:16:22.28 618-627-4651, OR EMAIL, AND THAT EMAIL IS MAILROOM@3ABN.TV. 00:16:22.28\00:16:33.96 MAILROOM@3ABN.TV. SO THAT IS IF YOU WOULD LIKE 500 00:16:33.96\00:16:36.26 OF THESE BOOKS -- BOOKLETS. I KEEP SAYING BOOKS. 00:16:36.26\00:16:39.43 IF YOU WANT 500 OF THEM, THAT'S A CASE, OR -- OR MORE, JUST GIVE 00:16:39.43\00:16:44.00 US A CALL OR EMAIL US AND PUT IN YOUR QUESTION. 00:16:44.00\00:16:47.60 SHELLEY, I'M SORRY. >> THAT'S OKAY. 00:16:47.60\00:16:49.84 I HAVE NOT READ THE NEW PRINT, BUT HASN'T IT BEEN UPDATED TO 00:16:49.84\00:16:54.94 HAVE THE NAMES OF HURRICANE HARVEY AND IRMA. 00:16:54.94\00:16:58.08 >> IT HAS BEEN UPDATED. WE UPDATED IT BEFORE THE 00:16:58.08\00:17:02.18 REPRINTING. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. 00:17:02.18\00:17:04.09 IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE SENDING A BOOK THAT IS FROM 2012.-THIS IS UPDATED CURRENT 2017. 00:17:04.09\00:17:11.19 THANK YOU, SHELLEY. SO LET'S HAVE A SPECIAL PRAYER 00:17:11.19\00:17:14.20 BEFORE WE GO TO OUR MUSIC FOR MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE 00:17:14.20\00:17:17.97 IMPACTED -- THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST LOVED ONES OR HOMES OR 00:17:17.97\00:17:21.37 THOSE PEOPLE THAT WILL BE IMPACTED COMING UP. 00:17:21.37\00:17:25.91 MOLLIE WOULD YOU PRAY FOR US. >> HOLY FATHER WE COME BEFORE 00:17:25.91\00:17:30.51 YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS, WE PRAISE YOU AND THANK YOU THAT 00:17:30.51\00:17:34.88 NOTHING HAS CAUGHT YOU BY SURPRISE, THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF 00:17:34.88\00:17:37.72 ALL THAT IS GOING ON, AND YOU'RE -- YOU'RE HEAD IS TOUCHED 00:17:37.72\00:17:45.33 AND BREAKING FOR US. FATHER I JUST BRING EVERYONE 00:17:45.33\00:17:48.43 THAT HAS BEEN IN THE PATH OF THESE HURRICANES BEFORE YOUR 00:17:48.43\00:17:51.50 THROWN OF GRACE, AND ASK ALL MIGHTY GOD THAT YOU WOULD TOUCH 00:17:51.50\00:17:56.60 HEARTS, FATHER, MAKE THEM TENDER AND SEWN TOWARD YOU, 00:17:56.60\00:18:02.04 PARTICULARLY AS THEY ARE READING THIS BOOK, DEAR LORD THAT IT 00:18:02.04\00:18:05.61 WILL MINISTER AND PICK PEOPLE UP OUT OF THEIR DEPTH OF DESPAIR 00:18:05.61\00:18:10.12 AND DRAW THEM INT A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. 00:18:10.12\00:18:12.99 WE PRAY FOR YOUR LOVE, PROTECTION, GRACE, MERCY, AND 00:18:12.99\00:18:16.96 GOODNESS TO BE EXTENDED IN EVERY AREA, AND EVERY SITUATION. 00:18:16.96\00:18:20.50 AND FATHER FOR THIS HURRICANE, FOR IRMA AND FOR JOSE THAT ARE 00:18:20.50\00:18:25.00 COMING UP -- UP TOWARDS US NOW, FATHER WE PRAY FOR EVERYONE IN 00:18:25.00\00:18:29.40 THEIR PATH, ALLOW THAT YOUR HAND OF PROTECTION BE UPON THEM, THAT 00:18:29.40\00:18:35.34 YOU WOULD DIRECT AND PROTECT, SO LORD, WE COMMEND THEM ALL INTO 00:18:35.34\00:18:40.15 YOUR HANDS, AND THERE IS NO SAFER PLACE, AND TRULY THE NAME 00:18:40.15\00:18:43.82 OF THE LORD IS A STRONG TOWER. WE CAN RUN INTO YOU, OH, FATHER, 00:18:43.82\00:18:48.59 AND WE ARE SAFE IN JESUS NAME. >> AMEN. 00:18:48.59\00:18:51.16 >> AMEN. AMEN. 00:18:51.16\00:18:53.46 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE AFFECTED OR AFRAID AND WAITING 00:18:53.46\00:18:56.33 FOR MAYBE THE HURRICANE TO COME, KNOW THAT YOUR 3ABN FAMILY, THAT 00:18:56.33\00:19:00.27 WE'RE STABBING WITH YOU. IN THAT WE ARE PRAYING FOR YOU, 00:19:00.27\00:19:03.44 NOT JUST TONIGHT ON THE SET, BUT WE WILL BE CONTINUING TO PRAY 00:19:03.44\00:19:07.64 FOR YOU THAT GOD WILL BRING DELIVERANCE AND HEALING AND HOPE 00:19:07.64\00:19:12.35 AND RESTORATION. AND DON'T FORGET TO CALL THE 00:19:12.35\00:19:15.08 CALL CENTER AND YOU CAN GET YOUR OWN FREE COPY OF THESE BOOKLETS 00:19:15.08\00:19:22.16 TO PASS OUT FOR FREE. TONIGHT WE'RE BLESSED BY HAVING 00:19:22.16\00:19:26.59 THE BURCHFIELD BROTHERS WITH US. AND THE SONG THAT THEY WILL BE 00:19:26.59\00:19:32.43 MINISTERING IS "THERE IS A QUIET PLACE." 00:19:32.43\00:19:35.47 ¤ 00:19:35.47\00:19:53.86 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, JOHN AND BEN BURCHFIELD. 00:22:08.56\00:22:12.89 WHAT A BLESSING.-"THERE IS A QUIET PLACE." I LOVE THAT SONG. 00:22:12.89\00:22:15.83 WE CAN COME ALONE. WE CAN BE APART FROM THE 00:22:15.83\00:22:21.10 BUSYNESS AND THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE, AND BE ALONE WITH JESUS. 00:22:21.10\00:22:25.87 AND THAT'S THE PLACE THAT GOD WANTS TO BRING EACH ONE OF US. 00:22:25.87\00:22:29.18 IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US, I HAVE MOLLIE STEENSON AND SHELLEY 00:22:29.18\00:22:36.45 QUINN, MY SISTERS IN JESUS, AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FORGIVENESS, 00:22:36.45\00:22:43.16 HOW GOD CAN POUR HIS KINDNESS INTO OUR HEARTS SO WE CAN EXTEND 00:22:43.16\00:22:47.76 THAT TO SOMEBODY ELSE. WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF 00:22:47.76\00:22:52.40 FORGIVENESS? WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? 00:22:52.40\00:22:53.94 >> WELL, FORGIVENESS FROM US TO OTHERS. 00:22:53.94\00:22:56.94 >> GOOD. >> NOW FROM -- FROM GOD TO US, 00:22:56.94\00:23:00.08 THAT IS OF COURSE -- HE CLEANSES US. 00:23:00.08\00:23:02.21 HE -- HE -- IT'S AS THOUGH WE HAVE NEVER -- ONCE WE MAKE JESUS 00:23:02.21\00:23:07.62 CHRIST THE LORD OF OUR LIFE, AND WE RECEIVE HIS FORGIVENESS, IT'S 00:23:07.62\00:23:14.06 AS THOUGH WE NEVER SIN. WE ARE PURE AND HOLY BEFORE HIM. 00:23:14.06\00:23:21.33 BUT WHEN SOMEONE SINS AGAINST US, OR THEY OFFEND US, THIS IS 00:23:21.33\00:23:25.43 WHAT FORGIVENESS IS, ABSOLUTE TURNING LOOSE OF AN OFFENSE. 00:23:25.43\00:23:31.21 ABSOLUTELY. THAT MEANS TOTALLY AND 00:23:31.21\00:23:35.08 COMPLETELY. IF YOU FORGIVE SOMEONE YOU 00:23:35.08\00:23:40.52 TOTALLY RELEASE THAT OFFENSE. LEAVING THE OFFENSE IN GOD'S 00:23:40.52\00:23:43.85 HANDS AND THEN YOU CAN MOVE ON, AND YOU KNOW, IF YOU DON'T TURN 00:23:43.85\00:23:48.46 LOOSE OF IT, THEN YOU CAN'T MOVE ON, AND I WANT TO SHARE AN -ILLUSTRATION, AFTER SHELLEY 00:23:48.46\00:23:55.30 GIVES HER DEFINITION. >> MY DEFINITION IS VERY SIMILAR 00:23:55.30\00:23:59.03 TO YOURS, THAT IT'S A CHOICE TO PARDON SOMEONE WHO HAS HURT YOUR 00:23:59.03\00:24:06.78 FEELINGS OR HARMED YOU IN SOME WAY, BUT IT IS A CHOICE. 00:24:06.78\00:24:10.11 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK SOMETIMES WE FEEL LIKE IT'S -- I 00:24:10.11\00:24:13.98 DO BELIEVE THAT IT'S A GIFT FROM GOD. 00:24:13.98\00:24:16.22 IN THAT HE HELPS US TO FORGIVE OTHERS. 00:24:16.22\00:24:19.15 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> BUT WE HAVE TO MAKE A 00:24:19.15\00:24:21.89 CONSCIOUS CHOICE TO FORGIVE. FORGIVENESS DOESN'T ALWAYS COME 00:24:21.89\00:24:27.10 EASY, ESPECIALLY IF SOMEONE -- PERHAPS YOU HAVE BEEN 00:24:27.10\00:24:30.53 ABUSED AS A CHILD, AND WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT -- YOU 00:24:30.53\00:24:33.87 KNOW, SPEAKING FACE-TO-FACE WITH THOSE WHO HAVE ABUSED US, BUT 00:24:33.87\00:24:40.08 SOMETIMES YOU CANNOT CONFRONT OR REBUKE THE PERSON WHO HURT 00:24:40.08\00:24:46.35 YOU -- THEY MAYBE PASSED ON, AND YOU STILL HAVE ALL OF THIS 00:24:46.35\00:24:51.65 WOUNDEDNESS, AND UNFORGIVENESS IN YOUR HEART, SO YOU HAVE TO 00:24:51.65\00:24:54.96 GET TO THAT POINT WHERE YOU UNDERSTAND SCRIPTURE AND GOD'S 00:24:54.96\00:24:59.23 LOVE OF WHAT -- AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT. 00:24:59.23\00:25:02.80 WHY GOD TELLS US TO FORGIVE OUR ENEMIES EVEN, BECAUSE I'S GOOD 00:25:02.80\00:25:08.14 FOR US, AND YOU'LL FIND THAT OUT BEFORE THEN OF THE NIGHT. 00:25:08.14\00:25:11.87 >> AMEN. >> YOU KNOW, IF SOMEBODY HURTS 00:25:11.87\00:25:14.44 US, WHAT IS THE HUMAN THING THAT WE WANT TO DO? 00:25:14.44\00:25:18.95 >> REVENGE. >> IT'S REVENGE. 00:25:18.95\00:25:21.28 SO WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE GIVE UP THE RIGHT TO HURT SOMEBODY 00:25:21.28\00:25:25.79 BACK THAT HAS HURT US. WE GIVE UP OUR RIGHT TO DO THAT. 00:25:25.79\00:25:31.39 IN THE BIBLE, THE GREEK WORD TRANSLATED FORGIVENESS LITERALLY 00:25:31.39\00:25:37.20 MEANS TO LET GO. I WANT TO GIVE MY ILLUSTRATION. 00:25:37.20\00:25:40.84 CAN I GIVE MY ILLUSTRATION? >> PLEASE. 00:25:40.84\00:25:43.51 >> THE ILLUSTRATION IS THE MONKEY TRAP. 00:25:43.51\00:25:46.94 YOU KNOW WHAT A MONKEY TRAP IS? IT'S REAL SIMPLE. 00:25:46.94\00:25:52.25 IT CAN EVEN BE A FRUIT JAR IF IT'S ANCHORED DOWN. 00:25:52.25\00:25:56.75 AND YOU TAKE THE FRUIT JAR, WE'RE GOING TO CALL IT THE 00:25:56.75\00:26:00.32 MONKEY TRAP, AND YOU PUT A GOODY IN IT OF SOME SORT. 00:26:00.32\00:26:03.86 AND THE MONKEY WANTS THAT. SO HE REACHES HIS HAND INTO THE 00:26:03.86\00:26:08.06 FRUIT JAR AND HE GETS THE GOODY. ONCE HE GETS THE GOODY IN HIS 00:26:08.06\00:26:13.57 LITTLE FIST, HE CAN'T PULL HIS FIST OUT OF THE FRUIT JAR. 00:26:13.57\00:26:18.67 YOU KNOW WHAT? THAT MONKEY TRAP HAS JUST CAUGHT 00:26:18.67\00:26:23.75 HIM. AND THE ONLY WAY FOR HIM TO GET 00:26:23.75\00:26:25.81 OUT OF THAT MONKEY TRAP IS TO TURN THE GOODY LOOSE, AND HE 00:26:25.81\00:26:30.92 WILL NOT DO IT. HE WILL HOLD ON TO THAT GOODY 00:26:30.92\00:26:34.09 AND BE TRAPPED. NOW THAT'S WHAT FORGIVENESS DOES 00:26:34.09\00:26:37.09 TO US. IT IS JUST AS MUCH -- IT TRAPS 00:26:37.09\00:26:40.10 US JUST LIKE -- >> YOU MEAN UNFORGIVENESS. 00:26:40.10\00:26:47.07 >> UNFORGIVENESS. IT TRAPS US JUST LIKE THE MONKEY 00:26:47.07\00:26:52.97 TRAP DOES TO THE MONKEY, AND AS LONG AS WE HOLD ON TO THAT 00:26:52.97\00:26:59.55 UNFORGIVENESS, WE ARE TRAPPED. AND THE SCRIPTURE TELLS US WE 00:26:59.55\00:27:04.35 MUST FORGIVE OTHERS, SO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER CAN FORGIVE US. 00:27:04.35\00:27:10.16 AND I KNOW I STAND IN THE NEED OF FORGIVENESS. 00:27:10.16\00:27:17.60 BUT WHEN I TURN LOSE OF THAT UNFORGIVENESS, THEN I CAN GO 00:27:17.60\00:27:26.04 FREE AND I CAN RECEIVE FORGIVENESS FROM MY HEAVENLY 00:27:26.04\00:27:38.59 FATHER >> MARK 11:25-26. 00:27:38.59\00:27:45.69 MARK 11:25-26. AND JESUS SAYS WHENEVER YOU 00:27:45.69\00:27:50.00 STAND PRAYING, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST ANYONE, FORGIVE 00:27:50.00\00:27:54.90 HIM AND LET IT DROP. LEAVE IT, LET IT GO, IN ORDER 00:27:54.90\00:27:59.34 THAT YOUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN WAY ALSO FORGIVE YOU, 00:27:59.34\00:28:04.05 YOUR OWN FAILINGS AND SHORTCOMINGS, AND LET THEM DROP. 00:28:04.05\00:28:08.65 BUT IF YOU DO NOT FORGIVE, NEITHER WILL YOUR FATHER IN 00:28:08.65\00:28:13.09 HEAVEN FORGIVE YOUR FAILINGS AND SHORTCOMINGS. 00:28:13.09\00:28:16.22 >> THAT IS GOOD. >> SO FORGIVENESS IS VERY 00:28:16.22\00:28:20.20 IMPORTANT FOR -- WHEN WE HAVE RECEIVED SO MUCH FORGIVENESS 00:28:20.20\00:28:24.40 FROM GOD, FOR US TO HOLD ON TO SOME SLIGHT THAT -- IN SOME WAY 00:28:24.40\00:28:31.41 WE HAVE BEEN SLIGHTED, IT'S LIKE THE PARABLE OF THE UNFORGIVINGER 00:28:31.41\00:28:36.98 IS VAPT. SO IF WE WANT TO BE FORGIVEN BY 00:28:36.98\00:28:43.69 GOD, WE NEED TO BE FORGIVEN BY OTHERS. 00:28:43.69\00:28:47.29 >> YOU GAVE THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE MONKEY TRAP, ALL HE HAD TO 00:28:47.29\00:28:51.59 DO WAS LET HIS HAND GO, AND HE WOULD BE FREE. 00:28:51.59\00:28:55.30 BUT HOW MANY TIMES DO I WANT TO HOLD ON TO THAT? 00:28:55.30\00:29:01.10 I SAY I WANT TO HANG ON TO THIS RESENTMENT BECAUSE IT FEELS 00:29:01.10\00:29:06.68 GOOD, OR BECAUSE FOR SOME REASON I THINK I WANT TO HOLD THAT, 00:29:06.68\00:29:10.11 INSTEAD OF REALIZING GOD CAN SET ME FREE, AND IT TAKES THAT 00:29:10.11\00:29:13.75 CHOICE. I LOVE WHAT YOU SAID, SHELLEY, 00:29:13.75\00:29:17.69 FORGIVENESS IS A CHOICE. MAKING THAT CHOICE FOR THAT. 00:29:17.69\00:29:20.89 >> DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID TO ME? 00:29:20.89\00:29:28.30 DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW BADLY THEY TREATED ME? 00:29:28.30\00:29:35.24 YOU HAVE UNFORGIVENESS IN YOUR HEART, AND THAT HURTS US A LOT 00:29:35.24\00:29:40.08 MORE THAN IT HURTS THE PERSON. I WAS IN A SITUATION SOME YEARS 00:29:40.08\00:29:43.91 AGO, AND I HAD TO STOP AND THINK -- NOW THESE PEOPLE THAT I 00:29:43.91\00:29:47.45 FELT LIKE HAD -- HAD BEEN UNKIND AGAINST ME, SO TO SPEAK. 00:29:47.45\00:29:56.56 THEY MAY HAVE GONE BEFORE THE HEAVENLY FATHER REPENTH 00:29:56.56\00:30:04.07 PENT -- REPENTED AND I WAS HOLDING ON TO THIS BITTERNESS. 00:30:04.07\00:30:12.84 AND THEY FELT LIKE I HAD HURT THEM. 00:30:12.84\00:30:15.74 AND IT WAS HURTING ME HOLDING ON TO THAT RESENTMENT AND 00:30:15.74\00:30:21.58 BITTERNESS WAS HURTING ME A LOT MORE THAN IT WAS HURTING THEM. 00:30:21.58\00:30:25.89 I HAVE A LITTLE QUOTE. UNFORGIVENESS IS LIKE DRINKING 00:30:25.89\00:30:30.56 POISON AND THEN HOPING IT WILL KILL YOUR ENEMY. 00:30:30.56\00:30:35.43 [ LAUGHTER ] >> NO, IT HURTS YOU, NOT YOUR 00:30:35.43\00:30:40.20 ENEMY. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:30:40.20\00:30:41.97 BECAUSE FORGIVENESS HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH FREEING 00:30:41.97\00:30:45.71 US, RELEASING US FROM THAT BONDAGE. 00:30:45.71\00:30:49.51 >> I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE AN ILLUSTRATION THAT THE LORD GAVE 00:30:49.51\00:30:52.81 ME. FIRST OF ALL, IT SURPRISED ME 00:30:52.81\00:30:56.45 WHEN YOU SAID THAT WHEN SOMEBODY HURTS US, THAT WE WANT REVENGE. 00:30:56.45\00:31:01.99 SEE I NEVER -- THAT HAS NEVER COME INTO MY MIND OR HEART. 00:31:01.99\00:31:06.59 BUT WHAT I HAVE DONE JUST BECAUSE OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN 00:31:06.59\00:31:09.53 WHICH I GREW UP IS THAT WOUNDEDNESS, I CAN WALL IT OFF. 00:31:09.53\00:31:14.04 >> YES. >> IT'S LIKE, YOU 00:31:14.04\00:31:17.44 KNOW -- YOU -- YOU WITHDRAWAL OR YOU ARE HIDING YOUR FEELINGS, SO 00:31:17.44\00:31:22.88 THAT'S HOW -- >> SHAME BASED? 00:31:22.88\00:31:24.85 OR JUST WALLED OFF? >> I THINK IT IS MORE WALLED 00:31:24.85\00:31:28.72 OFF. WHEN SOMEBODY HURTS ME, I WALL 00:31:28.72\00:31:30.69 THAT OFF, AND IT'S -- I GUESS THE WAY I DEALT WITH GROWING UP. 00:31:30.69\00:31:36.93 >> UH-HUH. >> BUT ONE TIME I WAS PRAYING 00:31:36.93\00:31:40.83 VERY EARNESTLY FOR AN ILLUSTRATION ON FORGIVENESS, AND 00:31:40.83\00:31:45.07 HERE IS WHAT THE LORD GAVE TO ME. 00:31:45.07\00:31:48.74 IF THERE WERE A -- LET'S SAY THAT THERE IS A LITTLE MOUNTAIN 00:31:48.74\00:31:52.04 BEHIND ME, AND FROM THAT MOUNTAIN, THERE'S A STREAM 00:31:52.04\00:31:55.01 COMING DOWN, AND IT -- IT'S THIS NICE LITTLE VALLEY, AND SAY IT'S 00:31:55.01\00:32:01.52 A 3-FOOT WIDE STREAM IN THE VALLEY. 00:32:01.52\00:32:04.59 IF YOU WERE TO TAKE A WIRE AND ANCHOR THAT WIRE ON EACH SIDE OF 00:32:04.59\00:32:09.49 THAT STREAM, THEN SOMEONE UPSTREAM IN THE MOUNTAIN DUMPS 00:32:09.49\00:32:15.56 CRASH INTO THE RIVER OR THE STREAM, WHAT HAPPENS? 00:32:15.56\00:32:18.90 THE TRASH COMES FLOWING DOWN, AND WHEN IT REACHES THAT WIRE, 00:32:18.90\00:32:23.41 WHAT HAPPENS? >> IT GETS CAUGHT. 00:32:23.41\00:32:25.44 >> IT GETS CAUGHT. THEN SOMEONE ELSE HAS SOME TRASH 00:32:25.44\00:32:29.14 THAT THEY DUM IN, AND OVER TIME AS THE TRASH IS GETTING DUMPED 00:32:29.14\00:32:33.21 INTO THE WATER, JUST LIKE A BEAVER WOULD BUILD A DAM, STICK 00:32:33.21\00:32:37.52 BY STICK, WHAT HAPPENS IS THIS STREAM GETS DAMMED UP, AND THE 00:32:37.52\00:32:42.56 WATER CAN NO LONGER FLOW, OR THE LORD IS SHOWING ME THIS. 00:32:42.56\00:32:47.60 IT'S KIND OF LIKE, WELL, YEAH. OKAY. 00:32:47.60\00:32:50.57 AND MAYBE YOU HAVE ALREADY FIGURED IT OUT. 00:32:50.57\00:32:52.83 I WAS A LITTLE BIT SLOW. BUT THE LORD SHOWED ME THAT THAT 00:32:52.83\00:32:57.67 LITTLE WIRE IS LIKE UNFORGIVENESS IN OUR HEARTS. 00:32:57.67\00:33:00.58 >> GOOD. >> AND AS DIFFERENT PEOPLE MAY 00:33:00.58\00:33:04.18 SAY SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE SOMETHING FROM THE PAST, 00:33:04.18\00:33:07.38 THAT UNFORGIVENESS THAT YOU ARE HOLDING ON TO. 00:33:07.38\00:33:11.52 THAT'S TRASH RIGHT THERE IN YOUR HEART, AND THEN IF SOMEBODY ELSE 00:33:11.52\00:33:15.22 DOES SOMETHING, AND MAYBE IT REMINDS YOU OF WHAT HAPPENED, 00:33:15.22\00:33:18.76 DON'T YOU AGREE? >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:33:18.76\00:33:20.66 >> THAT IF YOU SUFFERED SOMETHING IN THE PAST, AND 00:33:20.66\00:33:24.27 SOMEBODY DOES SOMETHING SIMILAR -- 00:33:24.27\00:33:25.27 >> IT'S LIKE A TRIGGER. >> YEAH, IT'S LIKE A TRIGGER. 00:33:25.27\00:33:28.57 SO HERE THIS COMES, AND WHAT HAPPENS IS JUST -- A LITTLE 00:33:28.57\00:33:32.57 PIECE OF TRASH AFTER ANOTHER, SUDDENLY THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE 00:33:32.57\00:33:38.91 LIVING WATER, CAN NO LONGER FLOW THROUGH YOUR HEART, BECAUSE THE -FORGIVENESS IS THE ROOT OF 00:33:38.91\00:33:46.39 BITTERNESS -- >> OH, YEAH. 00:33:46.39\00:33:48.86 >> -- AND RESENTMENT. UNFORGIVENESS -- 00:33:48.86\00:33:52.23 >> UNFORGIVENESS IS THE ROOT OF BITTERNESS AND RESENTMENT, AND 00:33:52.23\00:33:57.77 YOU GET TO WHERE GOD CAN'T FLOW THROUGH YOU. 00:33:57.77\00:34:02.17 UNFORGIVENESS IS THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE. 00:34:02.17\00:34:04.24 >> YEAH. >> SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS A 00:34:04.24\00:34:06.31 GREAT -- >> FABULOUS. 00:34:06.31\00:34:08.88 >> GREAT ILLUSTRATION. GOD GETS ALL OF THE STORY. 00:34:08.88\00:34:11.65 >> AMEN. WE ARE SHARING ILLUSTRATIONS. 00:34:11.65\00:34:15.42 YOU IMAGINE IF YOU HOLD OUT -- I GOT A BOTTLE OF WATER HERE. 00:34:15.42\00:34:19.05 AND YOU IMAGINE IF YOU HOLD IT OUT AT FULL LENGTH. 00:34:19.05\00:34:22.92 AND IS THAT HARD TO HOLD? >> NO. 00:34:22.92\00:34:26.70 >> NOT AT ALL. BUT IF YOU ASK ME TO HOLE IT THE 00:34:26.70\00:34:30.60 WHOLE PROGRAM, THEN WHAT HAPPENS? 00:34:30.60\00:34:34.14 MY ARM WILL START TO SHAKE AND IF YOU TOLD ME TO HOLD IT TEN 00:34:34.14\00:34:39.64 HOURS, I WOULD CALL THAT TORTURE. 00:34:39.64\00:34:42.88 AND TO ME THAT'S KIND OF LIKE WHEN I HOLD ON TO UNFORGIVENESS. 00:34:42.88\00:34:48.15 THE LONGER I HOLD IT, THE TIGHTER IT WRAPS AROUND ME. 00:34:48.15\00:34:51.79 THE HARDER -- THE -- THE MORE IT GETS IN -- LIKE THE INNER FIBERS 00:34:51.79\00:34:56.79 OF MY HEART, MY BEING, THEN THE HARDER IT IS TO LET GO. 00:34:56.79\00:35:03.23 THE MORE YOU HOLD IT, THE MORE PAINFUL IT BECOMES. 00:35:03.23\00:35:07.40 THE BIBLE SAYS DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON YOUR ANGER, RIGHT? 00:35:07.40\00:35:10.91 SO IF YOU SAY, OKAY, I'M HARBORING A LITTLE BIT OF 00:35:10.91\00:35:14.91 BITTERNESS, GOD SAYS RELEASE THAT RIGHT NOW TO ME. 00:35:14.91\00:35:17.78 OKAY. THAT'S EASY. 00:35:17.78\00:35:19.08 AND PRETTY SOON YOU ARE OVER THAT AND ON TO THE NEXT THING. 00:35:19.08\00:35:22.52 BUT IF I HOLD THIS FOR ONE YEAR, AND TEN YEARS, AND 30 YEARS, 00:35:22.52\00:35:29.22 WOUNDS AND HURT AND PAIN, THAT'S A TIGHT BOND. 00:35:29.22\00:35:31.89 SO I KNOW PEOPLE ARE. WAING TONIGHT, AND THEY ARE 00:35:31.89\00:35:34.86 SAYING, I'M LIKE THAT. I'M TIGHTLY BOUND UP. 00:35:34.86\00:35:38.40 I HAVE HAD THAT WIRE ACROSS THE STREAM FOR YEARS, AND THERE IS 00:35:38.40\00:35:42.44 SO MUCH TRASH AND PAIN AND JUNK ACCUMULATED, I DON'T KNOW IF I 00:35:42.44\00:35:48.54 CAN EVER GET FREE. HOW CAN WE EXPERIENCE 00:35:48.54\00:35:53.15 FORGIVENESS? >> I USE THIS EXAMPLE 00:35:53.15\00:35:57.62 OCCASIONALLY. SOME YEARS AGO -- MAYBE 20 -- 23 00:35:57.62\00:36:02.26 OR 24. A LONG TIME AGO. 00:36:02.26\00:36:05.36 THERE WAS A SITUATION IN MY LIFE WHERE I WAS -- WAS HURT. 00:36:05.36\00:36:08.66 I FELT LIKE MY FAMILY WAS TREATED UNFAIRLY; THAT WE -- YOU 00:36:08.66\00:36:12.97 KNOW, AND THERE WAS HURT. AND I HAD UNFORGIVENESS IN MY 00:36:12.97\00:36:17.81 HEART FOR A GROUP OF PEOPLE -- >> CAN I ASK YOU A QUICK 00:36:17.81\00:36:22.11 QUESTION. DON'T YOU THIN WHEN -- IF 00:36:22.11\00:36:24.71 SOMEBODY DOES SOMETHING AGAINST YOU, IT'S BAD ENOUGH, BUT WHEN 00:36:24.71\00:36:27.62 THEY DO IT AGAINST YOUR FAMILY, DOESN'T THAT MAKE IT WORSE? 00:36:27.62\00:36:31.95 TO ME IT DOES. >> YEAH, WHEN I'M OFFENDED 00:36:31.95\00:36:35.49 THAT'S ONE THING, BUT WHEN I TAKE ON THE OFFENSE OF ANOTHER 00:36:35.49\00:36:39.96 PERSON. IF SOMEBODY OFFENDS ME, THEN I 00:36:39.96\00:36:42.56 CAN FORGIVE THEM, IF THEY FORGIVE MY CHILDREN, I TAKE ON 00:36:42.56\00:36:49.80 THEIR OFFENSE. AND ONE THING HERE, AND I'LL GET 00:36:49.80\00:36:52.67 BACK TO MY LITTLE STORY IN A MINUTE. 00:36:52.67\00:36:55.78 I REMEMBER ONE TIME DAUGHTER CALLED ME -- OR SHE TOLD ME 00:36:55.78\00:37:00.22 LATER, SHE SAID I STARTED TO CALL YOU ABOUT A MONTH AGO, YOU 00:37:00.22\00:37:04.02 WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT ROGER DID, HE -- AND I WAS GOING TO CALL 00:37:04.02\00:37:07.59 YOU -- WILL YOU SEND ME THE MONEY TO BRING ME HOME -- 00:37:07.59\00:37:10.93 >> ROGER IS HER HUSBAND? >> YEAH, THEY HADN'T BEEN 00:37:10.93\00:37:15.43 MARRIED VERY LONG. I SAID WELL, HONEY, WHAT DID HE 00:37:15.43\00:37:19.77 DO? AND SHE SAID, I DON'T REMEMBER. 00:37:19.77\00:37:22.34 SHE DIDN'T REMEMBER, BUT SHE WAS GOING TO CALL ME SHE WAS SO 00:37:22.34\00:37:26.47 UPSET AND MAD AT HIM. BUT I KNOW I WOULD HAVE 00:37:26.47\00:37:30.41 REMEMBERED EVERY BIT OF IT. THAT IS BECAUSE SHE LOVED HIM. 00:37:30.41\00:37:34.65 AND SHE FORGAVE HIM AND FORGOT. BUT HAD SHE SHARED IT WITH HER 00:37:34.65\00:37:40.19 MOTHER, MOTHER WOULDN'T HAVE FORGOT. 00:37:40.19\00:37:42.62 AND YOU ARE RIGHT, SHELLEY, IT IS HARDER TO FORGIVE SOMEBODY 00:37:42.62\00:37:46.36 WHEN YOU TAKE ON THEIR OFFENSE. NOT ONLY DID I FEEL OFFENDED, I 00:37:46.36\00:37:50.40 TOOK ON THE OFFENSE OF MY CHILD AND MY HUSBAND, AND SO EVERY 00:37:50.40\00:37:55.04 MORNING WHEN I DROVE OUT MY DRIVEWAY, I HAD TO LOOK OVER 00:37:55.04\00:37:59.47 ACROSS THE STREET TO WHERE ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE. 00:37:59.47\00:38:02.81 >> OH, WOW. >> AND -- AND, AGAIN, I DIDN'T 00:38:02.81\00:38:06.88 WANT TO FORGIVE THEM, I DIDN'T THINK THEY DESERVED FORGIVENESS. 00:38:06.88\00:38:13.89 I THOUGHT GOD OUGHT TO RIDE OUT OF HEAVEN ON A BIG WHITE HORSE 00:38:13.89\00:38:19.79 AND ZAP THEM. THIS WAS MY STATE OF MINE. 00:38:19.79\00:38:25.13 BUT LET ME READ MATTHEW. IF YOU FORGIVE OTHER PEOPLE, GOD 00:38:25.13\00:38:40.45 WILL FORGIVE YOU. NOW, SEE I KNEW THAT. 00:38:40.45\00:38:44.32 BUT IF YOU DO NOT FORGIVE OTHERS YOUR SINS, YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER 00:38:44.32\00:38:49.72 WILL NOT FORGIVE YOUR SINS. I KNEW IF I WANTED GOD TO 00:38:49.72\00:38:54.56 FORGIVE ME, I HAD TO FORGIVE. AND AGAIN, I DIDN'T WANT TO, AND 00:38:54.56\00:38:58.43 I DON'T THINK THEY -- YOU KNOW? THIS IS WHERE MY MIND WAS AT THE 00:38:58.43\00:39:03.17 TIME. SO THIS IS WHAT I STARTED DOING, 00:39:03.17\00:39:05.87 AS I WOULD DRIVE OUT IN THE MORNINGS, AND IN MY PRAYER TIME, 00:39:05.87\00:39:10.88 FATHER I DON'T FEEL LIKE FORGIVING THEM. 00:39:10.88\00:39:13.75 I DON'T WANT FORGIVE THEM. BUT FATHER IF YOU WILL PUT YOUR 00:39:13.75\00:39:18.59 FORGIVENESS IN MY HEART, I'LL FORGIVE THEM WITH YOUR 00:39:18.59\00:39:22.52 FORGIVENESS. IT WON'T BE MINE. 00:39:22.52\00:39:24.06 BUT I KNOW THAT IN MY INABILITY HE IS MY ABILITY. 00:39:24.06\00:39:30.73 IN MY WEAKNESS HE MAKES ME STRONG. 00:39:30.73\00:39:32.80 I CAN DO ALL THINGS, BUT IT'S ONLY THROUGH CHRIST AS HE 00:39:32.80\00:39:38.67 STRENGTHENS ME, SO FATHER, I'M WILLING TO LET YOU MAKE ME 00:39:38.67\00:39:45.08 WILLING. AND SO -- AND THIS IS A BIBLICAL 00:39:45.08\00:39:49.92 PRINCIPAL, ANYTHING YOU GIVE TO GOD -- AND THIS WAS, I NEEDED TO 00:39:49.92\00:39:53.69 WALK IN FORGIVENESS SO I COULD STAN BEFORE THE FATHER, AND YOU 00:39:53.69\00:39:58.29 KNOW WHAT GOD DID -- IT DIDN'T HAPPEN INSTANTLY, AND I DON'T 00:39:58.29\00:40:02.43 EVEN REMEMBER WHEN I CAME TO THE REALIZATION THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN 00:40:02.43\00:40:06.20 I HEAR THESE PEOPLE'S NAME NOW, IT'S -- YOU KNOW THAT BURNING 00:40:06.20\00:40:10.67 FEELING -- >> LIKE THE TIGHT FEELING IN 00:40:10.67\00:40:13.91 YOUR STOMACH. >> YES. 00:40:13.91\00:40:15.34 AND NOW THERE IS A LOVE IN MY HEART FOR THESE PEOPLE. 00:40:15.34\00:40:18.91 I -- I LOVE THEM, BUT IT'S -- GOD -- HE CLEANSED MY 00:40:18.91\00:40:22.72 HEART OF UNFORGIVENESS. UNFORGIVENESS IS A SIN, SO YOU 00:40:22.72\00:40:28.92 HAVE TO ASK, FATHER, FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME FOR THIS 00:40:28.92\00:40:34.10 UNFORGIVENESS THAT I HAVE. AND AGAIN, IT'S A BIBLICAL 00:40:34.10\00:40:39.47 PRINCIPLE, IF YOU HAVE SOMEBODY THAT YOU DON'T HAVE LOVE FOR. 00:40:39.47\00:40:42.57 ASK GOD TO PUT HIS LOVE IN YOUR HEART. 00:40:42.57\00:40:44.97 THAT YOU CAN'T LOVE HIM WITH THE LOVE THAT IS IN YOUR HEART, BUT 00:40:44.97\00:40:50.18 IF GOD WIL JUST GIVE YOU MORE LOVE IN YOUR HEART, BECAUSE THE 00:40:50.18\00:40:55.65 LOVE OF GOD HAS BEEN SHARED ABROAD IN YOUR HEART. 00:40:55.65\00:40:58.39 >> AMEN. >> AND THEN LET THAT LOVE FLOW 00:40:58.39\00:41:01.16 OUT. WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THINGS IN 00:41:01.16\00:41:03.53 OUR OWN STRENGTH. I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE 00:41:03.53\00:41:06.53 BEAUTY OF THIS CHRISTIAN WALK. WE CAN -- WE CAN RUN IN TO THE 00:41:06.53\00:41:11.60 LORD, AND HE MAKES US SAFE. >> AMEN. 00:41:11.60\00:41:14.14 >> AMEN. >> I WAS THINKING OF -- THERE'S 00:41:14.14\00:41:16.91 ONLY ONE TIME -- BECAUSE I -- I WOULD SAY -- I -- I HAVE BEEN 00:41:16.91\00:41:21.08 ASKING MYSELF THIS ON THE WAY HERE TONIGHT. 00:41:21.08\00:41:24.85 AM I AS FORGIVING AS I THINK I AM? 00:41:24.85\00:41:27.45 I THINK I'M A PRETTY FORGIVING PERSON, BUT THERE WAS ONE TIME 00:41:27.45\00:41:31.45 IN MY LIFE THAT I ACTUALLY FELT HATRED TOWARDS SOMEBODY. 00:41:31.45\00:41:36.59 ONLY ONCE. AND J.D. AND I HAD A BUSINESS 00:41:36.59\00:41:42.16 PARTNER. WE DATED FOR SIX MONTHS, BROKE 00:41:42.16\00:41:45.80 UP, THEN WE BECAME BUSINESS PARTNERS, AND THEN WE ENDED UP A 00:41:45.80\00:41:50.37 COUPLE OF YEARS LATER GETTING MARRIED. 00:41:50.37\00:41:53.17 >> YOU AND J.D. >> J.D. AND I. 00:41:53.17\00:41:55.28 WE HAD THIS BUSINESS PARTNER WHO PUT US $250,000 INTO DEBT, 00:41:55.28\00:42:00.88 THROUGH SHADY THINGS THAT HE DID, AND I WAS -- HE WAS MIDDLE 00:42:00.88\00:42:05.99 EASTERN GENTLEMEN, AND I WAS TRAIPSING ALL OVER THE WORLD 00:42:05.99\00:42:11.79 UNCOVERING WHAT HE WAS DOING. >> OH, WOW. 00:42:11.79\00:42:14.30 >> WE HAD HAD -- OUR CORPORATE ATTORNEY CHECKED HIM OUT THROUGH 00:42:14.30\00:42:21.37 INTERPOL. AND HE WAS DOING SOME STRANGE 00:42:21.37\00:42:25.41 THINGS. SO WHEN I WAS IN LUXEMBURG, I 00:42:25.41\00:42:36.02 GOT WORD THAT HE HAD PUT OUT A DEATH CONTRACT ON ME. 00:42:36.02\00:42:41.12 >> OH. >> BUT THEN IT WAS SOMETHING 00:42:41.12\00:42:43.49 WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT HE WANTED TO -- YOU KNOW -- I REMEMBER 00:42:43.49\00:42:47.03 ASKING THE GENTLEMEN THAT I WAS DEALING WITH THERE. 00:42:47.03\00:42:50.03 DO YOU REALLY THINK HE HAS THAT KIND OF ABILITY? 00:42:50.03\00:42:53.17 AND HE SAID OF COURSE HE DOES. SO I SPENT THE NEXT FEW WEEKS IN 00:42:53.17\00:42:57.11 EUROPE LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER, THINK I THAT I COULD BE KILLED. 00:42:57.11\00:43:00.41 >> YEAH. >> AND BY THE TIME I RETURNED TO 00:43:00.41\00:43:04.25 THE UNITED STATES, I FELT PURE HATRED FOR HIM. 00:43:04.25\00:43:07.92 AND WHEN I WAS PRAYING, AS I WAS PRAYING AND ASKING ONE NIGHT FOR 00:43:07.92\00:43:14.56 FORGIVENESS OF MY SINS, THE LORD SO CLEARLY SPOKE AND SAID I WILL 00:43:14.56\00:43:22.16 FORGIVE YOU AS YOU FORGIVE OTHERS. 00:43:22.16\00:43:25.03 THERE WAS ONLY ONE PERSON I WASN'T FORGIVING. 00:43:25.03\00:43:27.40 AND I SAID LORD, YOU CANNOT MEAN THAT I NEED TO FORGIVE HIM. 00:43:27.40\00:43:33.34 HE IS NOT REPENTANT. I'M REPENTING. 00:43:33.34\00:43:36.81 HE IS NOT REPENTING. >> RIGHT. 00:43:36.81\00:43:39.05 >> AND LONG STORY SHORT, THE LORD -- I -- I DIDN'T KNOW HOW 00:43:39.05\00:43:42.92 TO FORGIVE HIM, AND SO I PRAYED. AND I SAID LORD, I DON'T EVEN 00:43:42.92\00:43:47.02 KNOW HOW TO FORGIVE HIM. I MEAN MY HEART WAS JUST FILLED 00:43:47.02\00:43:52.33 WITH HATRED FOR THIS PERSON. AND THE LORD TOLD ME PRAY FOR 00:43:52.33\00:43:56.67 HIS SALVATION. WELL, WHEN HE SAID THAT, I SAID 00:43:56.67\00:44:00.04 I DON'T WANT TO PRAY FOR HIS SALVATION. 00:44:00.04\00:44:03.27 LET HIM BURN YOU KNOW WHERE. GOD KNEW WHAT I WAS THINKING, 00:44:03.27\00:44:06.84 AND I TOLD THE LORD THIS, BECAUSE I REALLY COULD HAVE 00:44:06.84\00:44:10.91 CARED LESS IF THIS MAN WERE SAVED AT THE TIME. 00:44:10.91\00:44:14.48 SO THE LORD INSTRUCTED ME TO SO CLEARLY PRAY FOR HIS SALVATION. 00:44:14.48\00:44:18.89 AND I SAID OKAY. BUT YOU KNOW I DON'T MEAN IT. 00:44:18.89\00:44:22.36 SOMETHING INTERESTING HAPPENED, AS I BEGAN PRAYING EVERY DAY FOR 00:44:22.36\00:44:26.70 HIS SALVATION -- I DIDN'T MEAN IT IN THE BEGINNING. 00:44:26.70\00:44:29.93 I WOULD JUST SAY, LORD, I'M PRAYING BECAUSE YOU ASKED ME TO. 00:44:29.93\00:44:33.70 >> UH-HUH. >> YOU KNOW? 00:44:33.70\00:44:35.90 BUT I COULD HAVE CARED LESS. AND THEN -- I DON'T KNOW IF IT 00:44:35.90\00:44:40.68 WAS A WEEK OR TWO WEEKS, BUT ONE DAY THERE WAS AN EARNEST DESIRE 00:44:40.68\00:44:46.35 IN MY HEART, AND GOD SHOWED ME -- IT WAS LIKE GOD SHOWED ME 00:44:46.35\00:44:54.09 HOW HE SAW THIS PERSON, AS A LOST AND SUFFERING PERSON, AND I 00:44:54.09\00:44:58.26 PRAYED FOR HIS SALVATION AND I MEANT IT. 00:44:58.26\00:45:01.30 AND -- AND GUESS WHAT, AS SOON AS THAT HAPPENED, FORGIVENESS 00:45:01.30\00:45:05.80 WAS IN MY HEART. >> AMEN. 00:45:05.80\00:45:08.10 >> I MEAN, IT WAS JUST SO AMAZING THAT I NO LONGER HELD 00:45:08.10\00:45:12.77 ANYTHING AGAINST HIM. THERE WAS NO BITTERNESS. 00:45:12.77\00:45:16.01 NO RESENTMENT, NO ANYTHING. I JUST SAW HIM AS THE LOST AND 00:45:16.01\00:45:19.91 SUFFERING MAN HE WAS, AND PRAYED FOR HIS SALVATION, AND THAT'S 00:45:19.91\00:45:24.65 HOW GOD TAUGHT ME TO FORGIVE IN MY MOST DIFFICULT HOUR. 00:45:24.65\00:45:29.16 >> AMEN. >> THERE IS SOMETHING THAT I 00:45:29.16\00:45:31.43 THINK WE HAVE TO REALIZE. AND YOU MENTIONED THIS EARLIER. 00:45:31.43\00:45:35.53 IT'S BY AN ACT OF OUR WILL WE CHOOSE. 00:45:35.53\00:45:38.70 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND IT DOESN'T JUST FALL ON 00:45:38.70\00:45:43.27 US SO OFTEN -- LIKE YOU CAN KNOW WHAT THE WORD SAYS, AND YOU WANT 00:45:43.27\00:45:47.41 TO BE OBEDIENT TO THE WORD, BUT SOMETIMES JUST BY AN ACT OF YOUR 00:45:47.41\00:45:52.25 WILL, SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO DO THINGS, WE DON'T REALLY WANT TO 00:45:52.25\00:45:55.85 DO, BUT BY AN ACT OF OUR WILL, WE MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE. 00:45:55.85\00:46:01.92 LIKE SHELLEY MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE. 00:46:01.92\00:46:04.13 SHE STARTED PRAYING FOR THAT MAN.-SOMETIMES BY AN ACT OF OUR 00:46:04.13\00:46:10.40 WILL, WE MUST CHOOSE TO FORGIVE. WE MUST CHOOSE TO DISCONTINUE 00:46:10.40\00:46:15.00 WHATEVER WE'RE DOING, AND ASK GOD THAT HE WOULD STRENGTHEN US, 00:46:15.00\00:46:19.64 AND GIVE US THE GRACE AND MERCY TO WALK FORWARD IN SOMETHING, 00:46:19.64\00:46:23.51 AND WE'LL DO IT. >> AMEN. 00:46:23.51\00:46:25.68 >> DON'T YOU THINK THE CHRISTIAN WALK IS ALL ABOUT CHOICE. 00:46:25.68\00:46:30.39 THE BIBLE SAYS CHOOSE YOU THIS DAY WHO YOU WILL SERVE. 00:46:30.39\00:46:34.72 AND WE MAKE THAT CHOICE FOR JESUS. 00:46:34.72\00:46:36.83 WE MAKE THE CHOICE TO ASK FOR HIS FORGIVENESS AND TO ACCEPT IT 00:46:36.83\00:46:40.43 BY FAITH, AND THEN WE MAKE THAT CHOICE WHEN OTHER PEOPLE HAVE 00:46:40.43\00:46:44.40 HURT OR OFFENDED US, WE MAKE THAT CHOICE TO REACH OUT IN 00:46:44.40\00:46:50.24 FORGIVENESS. MY EXPERIENCE WAS SIMILAR IN THE 00:46:50.24\00:46:52.27 PRAYING ASPECT. NOT THAT ANYBODY HAD A DEATH 00:46:52.27\00:46:59.51 THREAT AGAINST ME, BUT I REMEMBER WALKING INTO A ROOM, 00:46:59.51\00:47:04.32 AND A WOMAN I THOUGHT WAS A FRIEND. 00:47:04.32\00:47:06.69 SHE HAD HER BACK TO ME, AND I WAS RUNNING IN, AND ALL OF A SUD 00:47:06.69\00:47:13.50 INI REALIZED, SHE IS TALKING ABOUT ME. 00:47:13.50\00:47:16.16 AND THE WORDS WERE CRITICAL AND CUTTING AND BELITTLING, AND I 00:47:16.16\00:47:20.20 THOUGHT -- I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS. 00:47:20.20\00:47:22.54 AND I REMEMBER I JUST STOOD THERE LIKE STUNG, YOU KNOW, ON 00:47:22.54\00:47:25.57 THE SPOT, YOU ARE NOT EVEN SURE WHAT TO DO. 00:47:25.57\00:47:28.34 AND I WENT AWAY, AND I THOUGHT -- THIS IS IN A PRIDEFUL 00:47:28.34\00:47:33.58 WAY. I THOUGHT I HANDLED IT WELL IN 00:47:33.58\00:47:37.15 MY OWN HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. I THOUGHT, WELL I'M NOT 00:47:37.15\00:47:41.49 GOSSIPING ABOUT HER. I'M NOT TALKING BAD ABOUT HER 00:47:41.49\00:47:45.59 BEHIND HER BACK. I'M DOING THE CHRISTIAN THING, 00:47:45.59\00:47:48.73 BUT ALL I REALLY DID WAS BURY IT. 00:47:48.73\00:47:54.14 >> THAT'S THE WALL. >> I GUESS IT IS. 00:47:54.14\00:47:59.64 AND SEVERAL MONTHS WENT BY, AND IF YOU HAD ASKED ME, JILL, IF 00:47:59.64\00:48:06.15 THERE UNFORGIVENESS IN YOUR HEART FOR SOMEONE ELSE, I WOULD 00:48:06.15\00:48:10.49 HAVE SAID KNOW. AND ONE DAY I WAS WASHING DISHES 00:48:10.49\00:48:14.56 AT THE KITCHEN SINK. AND I LIKE TO PUT SCRIPTURE UP 00:48:14.56\00:48:19.23 IN THE WINDOW, AND I CAN MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE AS I'M DOING 00:48:19.23\00:48:25.10 DISHES. AND IT SAID FOLLOW PEACE WITH 00:48:25.10\00:48:27.77 ALL MEN IN HOLINESS, WITHOUT WHICH, NO ONE SHALL SEE GOD, AND 00:48:27.77\00:48:32.64 MY BITTERNESS AND UNFORGIVENESS WAS BURIED SO DEEPLY, THAT WHEN 00:48:32.64\00:48:38.35 I RECITED THAT SCRIPTURE, I WAS LIKE, YES, THANK YOU GOD, THAT 00:48:38.35\00:48:43.82 I'M WALKING IN PEACE WITH MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AND IN 00:48:43.82\00:48:48.59 REALITY I WAS NOT. AND THE NEXT VERSE JUST JOLTED 00:48:48.59\00:48:53.29 ME, LOOKING DILIGENTLY, THE BIBLE SAYS, LEST MY PEOPLE BE 00:48:53.29\00:49:06.54 DEFILED. AND AS SOON AS I READ THAT, IT 00:49:06.54\00:49:09.61 WAS LIKE GOD SPOKE TO MY HEART, AND HE SAID JILL, YOU HAVE A 00:49:09.61\00:49:15.28 BITTERNESS IN YOUR LIFE. IT IS GOING TO AFFECT YOUR LIFE, 00:49:15.28\00:49:19.52 YOUR WALK WITH ME. IT IS GOING TO EFFECT YOUR 00:49:19.52\00:49:22.29 MESSAGE. AND I REMEMBER I SAID, GOD, I 00:49:22.29\00:49:24.86 DON'T WANT THIS UNFORGIVENESS, THIS ROOT OF HATRED, AND HE LEAD 00:49:24.86\00:49:35.47 ME TO PRAY FOR HER. LIKE HE LEAD YOU TO PRAY FOR 00:49:35.47\00:49:39.11 THIS GENTLEMEN. WHAT I DID WAS I PRAYED 00:49:39.11\00:49:42.61 BLESSINGS OVER HERE. AND IT FELT FAKE BECAUSE I 00:49:42.61\00:49:46.28 WANTED -- GOD, MAYBE SHE COULD HAVE AN ACCIDENT. 00:49:46.28\00:49:49.68 MAYBE SHE COULD BREAK A LEG, YOU KNOW, NOTHING SERIOUS, BUT JUST 00:49:49.68\00:49:53.29 HAVE A LITTLE PAIN FOR WHAT I HAVE GONE THROUGH. 00:49:53.29\00:49:55.82 AND GOD SAID, NO, I WANT YOU TO PRAY BLESSINGS, SO EVERY 00:49:55.82\00:50:00.30 MORNING -- AND I DIDN'T WANT TO, IT WAS AN ACT OF MY WILL. 00:50:00.30\00:50:04.17 IT WAS A CHOICE. I WENT BEFORE GOD AND I SAID 00:50:04.17\00:50:07.37 OKAY, GOD, I'M PRAYING BLESSINGS OVER HER LIFE. 00:50:07.37\00:50:11.37 I ASK THAT YOU BLESS HER WITH SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS, BLESS HER 00:50:11.37\00:50:20.68 FAMILY, FINANCIALLY, AND SPIRITUALLY, BLESS HER OU 00:50:20.68\00:50:26.92 OUTOOU OUTOUTREACH FOR THE KINGDOM. 00:50:26.92\00:50:32.46 AND I FELT SO FAKE. AND THE NEXT DAY I PRAYED THE 00:50:32.46\00:50:35.63 SAME PRAYER. AND THE NEXT DAY THE SAME 00:50:35.63\00:50:39.03 PRAYER. AND SEVERAL DAYS LATER, I WAS 00:50:39.03\00:50:41.94 PRAYING FOR HER, AND GOD TOOK IT AWAY. 00:50:41.94\00:50:45.07 >> PRAISE GOD. >> THAT BURDEN! 00:50:45.07\00:50:47.84 THAT TIGHTNESS I FELT AROUND ME. THAT -- AS YOU SAID THAT FEELING 00:50:47.84\00:50:52.01 IN THE PIT OF YOUR STOMACH WHEN YOU HEAR THAT PERSON'S NAME, IT 00:50:52.01\00:50:56.85 WAS GONE. GOD RELEASED IT. 00:50:56.85\00:50:58.75 AND IT CAME ABOUT AS A CHOICE, THAT ACT OF WILL. 00:50:58.75\00:51:05.46 AND IT >> -- AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT 00:51:05.46\00:51:08.70 EVEN THOUGH WE LEARNED OUR LESSON, AND PERHAPS YOU -- YOU 00:51:08.70\00:51:12.20 HAVE HAD -- YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE WHEE YOU 00:51:12.20\00:51:17.27 TRULY HAVE FORGIVEN ANOTHER, AND YOU FEEL LIKE, OH, THANK YOU, 00:51:17.27\00:51:21.91 JESUS, I HAVE LEARNED HOW TO REALLY LET GO. 00:51:21.91\00:51:24.38 I HAVE TO TELL A STORY ON MYSELF, BECAUSE THIS HAPPENED 00:51:24.38\00:51:27.75 JUST A FEW YEARS BACK WHEN MY SISTER PASSED AWAY. 00:51:27.75\00:51:31.89 AND I WAS PREACHING AT -- I PREACHED AT HER FUNERAL, AND SHE 00:51:31.89\00:51:39.69 HAD A FRIEND WHO MY BROTHER-IN-LAW ALWAYS TRIED TO 00:51:39.69\00:51:45.23 INTERRUPT THE FRIENDSHIP WITH THIS PARTICULAR WOMAN, BECAUSE 00:51:45.23\00:51:48.54 THIS WOMAN WAS MANIPULATIVE, AND SHE USED MY SISTER, AND SHE DID 00:51:48.54\00:51:53.41 SOME HORRIBLE THINGS TO HER. I MEAN -- AND I WOULD GET PHONE 00:51:53.41\00:51:57.58 CALLS -- MY SISTER CALLED ME SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE DAY, 00:51:57.58\00:52:01.38 BUT SHE WOULD CALL AND TELL ME SO AND SO DID -- AND SHE WOULD 00:52:01.38\00:52:05.45 GO ON AND SHE WOULD BE SO WOULD BE SO WOUNDED AND SO HURT. 00:52:05.45\00:52:16.50 AND SHE WOULD SAY I'M NEVER GOING TO BE FRIENDS WITH HER 00:52:16.50\00:52:22.44 AGAIN. AND SHE WOULD BE FRIENDS WITH 00:52:22.44\00:52:24.34 HER AGAIN. AND THIS WOMAN WAS IRRITATING 00:52:24.34\00:52:28.28 ME, BUT I DIDN'T REALIZE I WAS KEEPING HER AT ARM'S LENGTH, 00:52:28.28\00:52:32.68 BECAUSE I RECENTED WHAT SHE DID TO MY SISTER. 00:52:32.68\00:52:37.35 SO I PREACHED TO THE FUNERAL, AND VARIOUS PEOPLE WERE SAYING 00:52:37.35\00:52:44.03 THINGS, AND HER FRIEND SAID THE THING I LOVED ABOUT SONNY THE 00:52:44.03\00:52:47.56 MOST WAS THAT SHE WAS SO F FORGIVING, AND NOT ONLY DID SHE 00:52:47.56\00:52:56.07 FORGIVE, BUT WHEN SHE FORGAVE, SHE FORGOT. 00:52:56.07\00:53:01.01 SO IT'S NOT -- PLEASE UNDERSTAND SOMETHING, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT 00:53:01.01\00:53:05.48 TRYING TO SIT UP HERE AND SAY, WE HAVE ARRIVED. 00:53:05.48\00:53:08.88 >> THANK YOU. >> THAT WE KNOW HOW TO FORGIVE. 00:53:08.88\00:53:15.79 I THINK EACH TIME THAT ONE OF THE STEPS THAT I HAVE RECOGNIZED 00:53:15.79\00:53:19.86 ABOUT FORGIVENESS, IS THAT I HAVE TO GET TO THAT POINT WHEN I 00:53:19.86\00:53:24.00 RECOGNIZE WHEN I'M HOLDING ON TO SOMETHING FROM THE PAST, THIS IS 00:53:24.00\00:53:27.37 A CHOICE THAT I'M MAKING TO HOLD ON TO THAT PAIN. 00:53:27.37\00:53:30.74 AND IT'S -- IT'S NOTHING MORE THAN -- THIS UNFORGIVENESS IS A 00:53:30.74\00:53:36.58 FEELING OR -- OR A -- A THOUGHT, SOMETHING FROM THE PAST. 00:53:36.58\00:53:41.95 I'M -- I'M CHOOSING, LIKE THE MONKEY, TO HOLD ON TO THAT PAIN, 00:53:41.95\00:53:47.26 AND SO YOU HAVE TO GET REAL AS -- AS YOU GO BEFORE GOD WITH 00:53:47.26\00:53:53.53 EACH CASE. YOU KNOW, FIRST OF ALL, YOU HAVE 00:53:53.53\00:53:55.50 GOT TO RECOGNIZE IT. >> UH-HUH. 00:53:55.50\00:53:57.77 >> AND THAT'S WHEN I RECOGNIZED IT, AND I WAS ABLE TO PRAY, AND 00:53:57.77\00:54:01.80 I CAN SAY I HAVE TOTALLY FORGIVEN THIS WOMAN NOW, BUT YOU 00:54:01.80\00:54:06.44 HAVE TO GO BEFORE GOD AND ASK HIM, FATHER, SHOW ME THE REALITY 00:54:06.44\00:54:11.81 OF THIS SITUATION. SOMETIMES THERE'S A PERCEIVED 00:54:11.81\00:54:15.72 OFFENSE. >> UH-HUH. 00:54:15.72\00:54:16.99 >> YOU KNOW? AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU SOMETHING 00:54:16.99\00:54:19.39 ELSE, THE LORD TOLD ME ONCE IN THE SHOWER IS THE SPIRIT OF 00:54:19.39\00:54:25.99 OFFENSE IS THE SPIRIT OF PRIDE. SO A LOT OF WHAT WE REACT TO, 00:54:25.99\00:54:30.40 AND ARE HOLDING ON TO IS -- IS JUST ISSUES OF PRIDE THAT WE'RE 00:54:30.40\00:54:34.50 NOT LETTING GO. BUT THAT'S WHERE IT BEGINS. 00:54:34.50\00:54:38.17 I'M SURE WE'LL TALK ABOUT STEPS TO FORGIVENESS IN THE NEXT HOUR. 00:54:38.17\00:54:42.21 BUT THAT'S WHERE IT BEGINS IS IN RECOGNIZING -- YOU KNOW, AND 00:54:42.21\00:54:45.85 THAT'S WHY WE PRAY. LORD, SEARCH MY HEART. 00:54:45.85\00:54:50.45 SHOW ME IN THERE'S ANYTHING IN IT THAT IS NOT PLEASING TO YOU. 00:54:50.45\00:54:53.92 >> AMEN. >> AND THEN GET REAL WITH GOD 00:54:53.92\00:54:57.96 ABOUT YOUR PART IN IT. >> AMEN. 00:54:57.96\00:55:00.13 >> WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT LATER. >> AMEN. 00:55:00.13\00:55:02.80 THAT'S WONDERFUL. I HAVE BEEN SO BLESSED BY 00:55:02.80\00:55:06.40 HEARING YOUR TESTIMONIES. WHAT I HAVE PICKED UP IS THAT 00:55:06.40\00:55:11.31 FORGIVENESS IS A CHOICE. AND FORGIVENESS IS A CHANCE FOR 00:55:11.31\00:55:16.18 GOD TO POUR HIS LOVE INTO OUR HEART SO THAT QUESTION CAN 00:55:16.18\00:55:22.35 EXTEND THAT TO SOMEONE ELSE. IT COMES FROM THE LORD JESUS 00:55:22.35\00:55:25.29 CHRIST, AND IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING IN THIS AREA, MAKE A 00:55:25.29\00:55:28.46 CHOICE TO PRY FOR THE PERSON. NOW THAT'S A RADICAL DECISION, 00:55:28.46\00:55:32.26 BUT THE RESULTS ARE INCREDIBLE. THE SECOND HOUR, WE WANT TO TAKE 00:55:32.26\00:55:37.17 MORE -- LOOK MORE AT SOME STEPS TO FORGIVENESS. 00:55:37.17\00:55:41.74 AND I WANT TO ALSO TOUCH ON TRUST, AND IF I FORGIVENESS 00:55:41.74\00:55:48.01 SOMEONE WAS THAT MEAN I STILL HAVE TO STAY IN AN ABUSIVE 00:55:48.01\00:55:54.15 RELATIONSHIPS? SEND IN YOUR QUESTIONS TO 00:55:54.15\00:56:00.82 LIVE@3ABN.TV. 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