Mass Deliverance Manual

then from now on, be sure that you do it when people hurt or disappoint you. It’s amazing how many people go through these services and then six months later I meet them and they’ve built up another stack of resentment because they didn't take care of those things as they happened. As long as we live on this earth there are people who are going to hurt or disappoint us. Now, hurt and disappointment comes from those who are close to us. Those who are distant from us can seldom hurt us deeply and bounce us around a little bit, but the people who really hurt us are the ones that we are close to. Mothers and fathers hurt children. And you say, “oh well you know mom and dad, they are great people you know, they would never hurt me.” Now that wasn’t the way you always felt. When you are little, they hurt and disappointed you. And if you haven’t dealt with those disappointments, then it’s entirely possible you have a festering root of bitterness in you that will defile your whole experience and you won’t know where the problem is coming from. And you need to get rid of it just like you need to get rid of a rotten tooth because it will poison your whole system. Forgiveness is not optional. You must forgive those who have hurt or disappointed you in the past. Mothers and fathers disappoint children. Children disappoint their parents and cause deep hurt and disappointment. Husbands and wives hurt each other. Ex-husbands and ex-wives are experts at this sort of thing. And close friends, close relatives hurt and disappoint each other. Preachers hurt people. People hurt Preachers. Teachers sometimes are good candidates for hurting people. But whatever the hurt or disappointment that has come to you as a result of somebody else’s actions, words or deeds, you must forgive them. You say, “but they don’t deserve forgiving.” That may be very true. And let me ask you this, did you deserve for Jesus to forgive you when He saved you? Have you ever deserved His forgiveness since then? Have you ever deserved His forgiveness a single day of your life since you were born again? And yet you and I have claimed that forgiveness, haven’t we? I hope we have. 1 John 1:9 , "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." But we claim forgiveness we did not earn, right? As an old song said, "He paid a debt He did not owe.” He also forgives us of things we do not deserve forgiveness for. Did you ever analyze how many dumb and stupid things you do? It’s easier to analyze somebody else’s dumb and stupid things, but I mean did you ever do yours? We really just stick our head in the lion's mouth a lot of times,

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