January Wendeaday Night Series

Week 1 / We need to

Outline

2 things we need to do

Forgive

Mark 11:20–25 ESV

20 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. 21 And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.” 22 And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. 23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Ephesians 4:25–32 ESV

25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Who needs Your Forgiveness

The People Who have wrong you DUH

You can not move on holding grudges aginst someone

You are giving them power over you and they don't even know it

as we are willing to forgive God is willing to forgive

doesn't mean its easy but its doable

we have to hand over control and vengeance

Your Past/Past year

This sounds crazy but this past year for some has been bad

we have to fogive all that went wrong and move on so we can move to what is right

if we live in the what ifs of last year we can miss this year

Your Self

this can be the hardest one

you know your faillings

you know how bad you did

you have to understand you are a work in progress

a masterpeace but still in the making

you can not move on if you can forgive the old you

God

I think this is tied for the hardest

we lose

people

opperunties

we struggle

we ask in prayer and dont get the answer we want.

so we build up anger with God

we have to rememer he has the best for us in mind

we dont contol anything He does

All this is in his hand and we have to process the anger and fogive him because he knows better then us.

How to Work towards forgiveness

To work on fogivness we must work on our closness with God

forgivness is not natrual for us

so how can we do it if we are apart from God (WE CANT)

Be open and Honest at all time

Bible says to go to someone if you have a issues

this would fix many issues

let people know what is on your mind

Allow people to come to you with their issues with out you getting upset

Practice the Fruit of the Spirit

Be The First to Forgive, even if you dont think they deserve it.

Dont wait for them to ask go ahead and forgive

Pray through it

its not easy

when you start to linger on the past, when you feel the rage come up the first thing we need to do is pray through it.

Through prayer we can ask all things

through faith we get though all things

Make Goals

2 things we need to stop doing

Stop making excuses

for your sins

for your time and commitment

for you self

for your children

your choices