The power of forgiveness

I believe that each of us have a responsibility to set our day right. We must act right. These are different days, and we are being challenged — challenged to change and challenged to rise.

Is it a fight? It IS a fight! Is it going to require you going beyond yourself? Because the fight never stops! It is waged against you in such a manner as to exhaust you and to weary you.

And if we do not guard ourselves in our attitudes and our building of the character –– in our homes, our families, our workplaces –– then we become doors for devils to work though.

We may just think, “It's okay for me to act this way or to talk like this,” but we would be so wrong! We are facilitating and allowing something to work. And that is truly shameful — because if we love one another, then we would be interested in shutting every door that is open, and we would no longer allow ourselves to open a door.

Many have become wedges in doors that should be shut. And although others have tried to shut them, they themselves have become the wedge that causes the door to remain open.

These are not days to walk in unforgiveness. These are not days to walk in selfish lusts of just acting the way that we want to act, regardless of how it affects people. The Holy Spirit is on this, because it is so dangerous!

Do you know that people around you can be suffering because of the way you act? Make the decision: “I refuse to be the tool that the enemy uses to bring destruction!”

— Paul Brady

"...We will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. …Love is not easily irritated or quick to take offense.

"Love joyfully celebrates honesty and finds no delight in what is wrong. Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others.” (Eph 4:17 NLT; 1 Cor. 13:5-7 TPT)