Forgiveness Plus Healing

Psalms 103:3, "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases..." (KJV)

Forgiveness comes accompanied by healing and many times, when you forgive people, healing is inevitable.
Forgiving others is always more to the benefit of whoever is offended than it is to the benefit of the offender.
Jesus said, "Forgive others, do that you too will be forgiven. If you do not forgive others, you Father in heaven will not also forgive you".
But as I taught you in an earlier lesson, we do not forgive do that God may forgive us. we do not forgive as a condition to fulfill something, we forgive because we have power to forgive and to set free... we forgive because we are gods, we forgive because we are sons of God and sons carry the DNA of their Father. So, if our Father is a forgiver then we too ought to carry that gene in our system and forgive! Hallelujah!
So Nesh, what is Jesus talking about?

Of course as I told someone a few days ago, the Bible is unique in that every of its passage, addresses the past, the present and the future. Jesus was addressing a people under the old covenant, that depended on works for justification, but He was also addressing us, a people under a new covenant where we are justified by Grace.
To us, our lack of forgiveness for others does not necessarily affect our forgiveness of sins, but it affects our healing process. It creates a seal or a covering and insulates that which is troubling us, so much so, that it cannot be dealt with and be removed.
Jesus healed a blind man and his disciples asked him, who had sinned for the man to become blind from birth. Jesus told them that, it was not as a result of anybody's sin, BUT SO THAT GOD MAY BE GLORIFIED!

Some things happening to you are not because of your sin, no, if you are in Jesus Christ, YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN, but they are happening because you have refused to glorify God. And they will go the moment you give room for God to be glorified.
One way of making God receive all the glory is by forgiving others that have wronged you.
Sometimes we forgive people, but then a report comes that they have gotten into trouble. And we immediately stand to celebrate or to claim responsibility of the attack. You say, "It is because of what they did to me!" But, didn't you forgive them???
Don't forgive person and then go expecting them to be punished. When Jesus forgave His offenders on the cross, He even went ahead and asked the Father, not to punish them for what they did!

How many times do you forgive people and even take an extra step to ask God NOT TO PUNISH THEM FOR WHAT THEY DID??
That is the real forgiveness.
Where you forgive and expect your offenders to prosper. Let me show you... the guy that pierced Jesus on his side and blood and water gushed out. Historians call him Longinus, a centurion who was before the piercing blind on one eye, but when the water and the blood from Jesus touched his eye, the eye was healed! And when he saw what had happened, and when all the soldiers with him also saw what had happened, the Bible says that, they glorified God.

When you refuse to forgive, you refuse God to be glorified.
When you avenge, you take all the credit, therefore God is not glorified. Yes, do not be happy when people say that someone is going through something, because of what they did to you. Instead, be sorrowful because if it is true, then you are denying God his glory. Instead, be happy when you hear people that you have forgiven are doing well, and if a disaster befalls them, be sure to point out that it is not instigated by you, for you forgave them and asked God to forgive them. While you were on the cross, you healed their blind eye that they should see better.
This is the kind of forgiveness that will bring healing.
May God heal and restore you.
May He not just heal you, but actually make you whole, in the Name of Jesus.
Shalom and keep the faith.


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