Soul Reset Part 4 - The Supernatural Power of Forgiveness

February 23, 2025

He restores my soul. —Psalm 23:3
Their souls shall be like a well-watered garden. —Jeremiah 31:12
You will find rest for your souls. —Matthew 11:29

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. —Proverbs 4:23

• Weeds grow without

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  , and they often fast. Fruit grows with intention and abiding.

• Forgive - to forgive means to release the debt, letting go of both the wrong and the resentment.

1. Forgiveness

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to you as you extend forgiveness to others.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. —Matthew 6:12

love keeps no record of wrongs. —I Corinthians 13:5

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. —Matthew 6:14-15

2. Forgiveness is an incredible

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that opens the heavens and shuts the door on the enemy.

• Unforgiveness and forgiveness both shut doors and
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  doors.

Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive…11 lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices. —2 Corinthians 2:10a-11

3. Forgiveness is a

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practice.

Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
35 “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.” —Matthew 18:21-22, 35

Forgive over and over and you will be forgiven over and over. —Luke 6:37b TPT

Don’t waste a second of your life holding on to hatred, bitterness and unforgiveness. ‘Forgive as the Lord forgave you.’ —Colossians 3:13

4. Forgiveness is

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- Jesus released forgiveness before anyone asked!

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” —Luke 23:24

5. Forgiveness doesn’t lower the standard; it restores the standard.

• Unforgiveness leaves you bound to the thing that happened to you. Forgiveness sets you

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  from it!

• Forgiveness moves the forgiver from being a victim to a

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  , an overcomer.

• Forgiveness makes it so your focus is JESUS (present) and the future He has for you rather than the bad thing that happens to you.

• Forgiveness

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  the Holy Spirit and protects your heart from offense and bitterness.

29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. —Ephesians 4:29-32