1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Now when the even had come, he sat down with 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: the twelve, and when they had sung in him, they 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: went out into the mount of Olives Matthew twenty six 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: twenty and twenty six thirty. Lord, you want praise to 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: be an every day occurrence, not just a Sunday morning experience. 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: Help me keep an attitude of worship in all I do, 7 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: day or night. When I seek your face, you fill 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: me with grace and set the tone for my interactions 9 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 1: with others. Worship reminds me of who I belong to, 10 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 1: and I want to reflect your love as I go 11 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: through my day. I have a hard time giving to 12 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: others when I have not connected with you. Worship and 13 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 1: songs of praise clear away the residue of daily pollution. 14 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: Life's road kicks up. Fill me with your living water 15 00:00:54,360 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: and refresh me through praise. Amen. Thank you for listening 16 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 1: to pray dot COM's nightly prayer. 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,639 Speaker 2: To experience a pocket of peace before you go to sleep, 18 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 2: Stay tuned for our free meditative prayer after this quick 19 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 2: word from our sponsors. 20 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 3: Welcome to your meditative prayer on deep forgiveness. To get 21 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 3: the most out of your spiritual journey, usepray dot com 22 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 3: every day and make prayer a priority in your life. 23 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:44,919 Speaker 3: Our goal for today's meditative prayer is deep forgiveness. Slow 24 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 3: down and take a minute to center yourself. Find a 25 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 3: relaxed environment that will allow you to ruminate and reflect. 26 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 3: Now turn that reflection toward God's word. Allow your mind 27 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 3: to reach out to the presence of the Lord. Prepare 28 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 3: your heart to be filled with the Holy Spirit and 29 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 3: his teaching. We will be meditating on Matthew chapter eighteen, 30 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 3: verses twenty one through twenty two. From the King James version. 31 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 3: Then came Peter to him and said, Lord, how oft 32 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,679 Speaker 3: shall my brother sin against me? And I forgive him 33 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 3: till seven times? Jesus said, unto him, I say not 34 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 3: unto thee until seven times, but until seventy times seven. 35 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 3: Let your worship rise up to God God. I praise 36 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 3: you for your faithfulness. I adore you, for your love 37 00:02:55,360 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 3: is unending and unmeasurable. I praise you for you are 38 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 3: gracious and kind. Your forgiveness is vast and inexhaustible. I 39 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 3: give you my adoration, for you have overcome iniquity and 40 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 3: conquered hate. Righteousness and truth are found only in you. 41 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 3: Forgiveness must be limitless. The only condition God placed upon 42 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 3: forgiveness is that it must be inexhaustible. You are to 43 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 3: have mercy and to show grace repeatedly, no matter how 44 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 3: many times you are wronged, and regardless of how you 45 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 3: may feel. You are ordered to forgive. Even if those 46 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 3: who hurt you do not seek your forgiveness, forgive them anyway. 47 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 3: This divine directive may seem difficult, but it must be done. 48 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 3: You need to remember that God is not a cruel God. 49 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 3: God is kind. He has a purpose and a reason 50 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 3: behind this commandment your well being. Forgiveness is for your 51 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 3: personal benefit. It has nothing to do with others. It 52 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 3: is internal and it is about you and God. Withholding 53 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 3: forgiveness is like drinking poison and expecting another's death, completely absurd, 54 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 3: utterly pointless, and fatal only to you. Holding on too 55 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 3: offenses and nursing grudges will bring you nothing but evil. 56 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 3: Withholding forgiveness will allow bitterness and hurt to grow roots 57 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 3: within your soul, to suffocate all manner of joy and 58 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 3: stifle any hope for a future. For your own sake, 59 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 3: you must forgive. Pain and pride will tell you it 60 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 3: is impossible to let go to forgive repeatedly. This is 61 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 3: a lie the devil uses to keep you bound to 62 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 3: sin and sorrow. Think for a moment on what is 63 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 3: preventing you from forgiveness. Confess that weakness to the Holy Spirit. 64 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 3: Share with him your wounds and your weariness. Now consider 65 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 3: all the times God forgave you, and thank him for it. 66 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 3: Thank the Lord for his kindness and long suffering towards you. 67 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 3: Thank God that his love and his grace are limitless. 68 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 3: Thank Him for not keeping a record of your wrongdoing. 69 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 3: Give thanks to God for all the times in the 70 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 3: past he made you righteous, for forgiving all your sins, 71 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 3: no matter how grievous or heinous they may be. Thank 72 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 3: Him that his compassion will never change and he will 73 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:15,799 Speaker 3: never withhold it from you. Never forget God is present 74 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 3: and he is listening to you. Come before him and 75 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 3: ask him to fill you with his love, to give 76 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 3: you the ability to have mercy and compassion as he does. 77 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 3: Ask God to remove your heart and your hate. Reach 78 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 3: out to Him for healing and restoration. Ask him to 79 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 3: guard your heart from pride and presumption. Ask the Holy 80 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 3: Spirit to empower you to overcome the evil done against you, 81 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 3: to rise above it and to live free from bitterness. 82 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 3: Ask the Holy Spirit to enable you to forgive those 83 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 3: who wrong you, to show grace toward the offenses of others. 84 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 3: Remember God says you are to constantly and ceaselessly forgive others, 85 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 3: to show grace and compassion, regardless of how repetitive the 86 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 3: offenses may be. Take courage and trust God's Holy Spirit 87 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 3: will help you. Do not allow yourself to grow weary 88 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 3: of showing mercy, but pour it out to others as 89 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 3: God has poured it over you. Let God's love and 90 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 3: kindness flow constantly from you to others. Choose to be 91 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 3: God's living example of grace in this world, this day 92 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 3: and every day. Thank you for completing today's meditative prayer 93 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 3: on pray dot com. By incorporating this healthy habit as 94 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 3: a daily practice, you're making prayer a priority and strengthening 95 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 3: your walk with God.