Forgiveness is a necessity for us to live life in an elevated dimension of God’s peace and love. While, we all experience challenges, hurt, pain and setback at some point or another in our life. You cannot stuck yourself in that place of pain and carry unforgiveness in your heart for others. Acknowledging the hurt and recognizing the need to forgive others is the key to your own healing and deliverance. Subsequently, when you come to the realization that you are not perfect and that you may have also done something to hurt another person as well—you’ll see that in your sinful state you’ve made mistakes and you need others to forgive you also for messing up.  For that reason God releases forgiveness to you daily, but if you cannot forgive others, God will not forgive you either; that gift of forgiveness will be withheld from you by God.

When I reflect on my life, I can transparently say that for many years I had a great bitterness and a deep rooted hatred in my heart for the man that took me away from my family as a young teen. The hatred in me for this man ran deeply in my veins and all I wanted to do was die. The pain I felt brought a numbness to my heart and it crippled up the dreams I had before I was taken, molested and abused. After that incident happened to me, I felt like I was damaged goods, that I would never be enough and that I wasn’t beautiful enough. In fact, I felt hopeless and worthless. I was tarnished by a grown man that felt like it was normal to take away a young child from her family and abuse her innocence and I hated him for it.

Even though he was incarcerated for years, it didn’t take away my pain. I still felt pain in my heart and I went through a season of emptiness. No matter what I did, I could never fill the void within me. It really frustrated me and brought sadness to my heart everyday. At one point, I thought this is it—I will end it with suicide but God showed up. I remember being in my bathroom with a knife resting on my wrist, ready to cut through my veins and suddenly I heard a voice said to me, “You are special to me, I love you.” In response, I said who are you? I heard, “I am Jesus, I love you, I have plans for you. You are beautiful, I love you daughter.” When I had this supernatural encounter with Jesus, I realized in that moment that if I didn’t forgive that man, I would never be able to live a purposeful life and walk in the call of God upon my life. It wasn’t until I was willing to forgive that man for what he did to me, that I started to experience the deep inner peace and love of God in my heart.

“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” Colossians 3:12-14

Forgiving this man opened up the heavens over my life, I grew closer to God and He caused an evolution to rise in my spirit and the glory of God got released over me. Now twelve years later, I am living my best life; in every area of my life I feel fulfilled, loved and above all I have an inner peace and joy. God unveils heavenly secrets to me and allows me to fellowship with Him as He teaches me and gives me guidance on how to minister His word effectively in His love for others to hear it and receive it so they can be delivered. It’s time to let go and relinquish the pain of the past, so you can be set free. This is your day for healing, miracles, signs and wonders but you must we willing to forgive others so you can walk in your divine destiny and live your best life in God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. The moment you decide to forgive the person that has caused you pain, you regain the power that was stolen through that hurt and trauma and you can really live intentionally and be the person you we meant to be by the grace of God.

Father today I pray for your healing grace to reach out and touch those struggling to forgive their molesters, abusers and those who has hurt them. Father today, I break the chain of abuse and molestation off your children’s life. I declare a release in the spirit realm and I decree the supernatural grace of your love, grace and peace upon every heart that is hurting in Jesus name, Amen.