What is a Life Hack? A life hack is a strategy or technique that we apply to our lives to manage our time and activities in more efficient ways.

What is a spiritual Life Hack? A spiritual life hack is a principle found in the Scriptures that leads us to experience abundant life more consistently and efficiently.

Big Idea: We enjoy God’s forgiveness only to the extent that we grant forgiveness to others.

Forgiveness: “to forgive is to give up our claim to requital for an insult or offense, to grant relief from payment of a debt or to cease to feel resentment against an offender.” -Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary

Forgiveness: Getting-rid-of-it

1. Be

: What do you really feel?

Ephesians 4:26-27

James 1:19-20

2. Be

: How should you face your offender?

Galatians 6:1-3

3. Be

: What will it take to finish the conflict?

Mark 2:9-11

4. Be

: Don’t settle for false forgiveness.

Characteristics of false forgiveness:

the offense

Minimizing the

Blind

Forgive and

5. Be

: Keep short accounts; don’t wait for others to move toward you.

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Pastor’s Challenge:

1. Is there someone against whom you hold resentment or a grudge and haven’t been able to “let it go?”

2. Surrender those feelings to God asking Him to grant you the supernatural ability to “get rid of” those feelings.

3. Make the choice to forgive that “someone,” committing to pray daily for their welfare until you can honestly say the resentment is gone.