Against Any

24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. 25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. 26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Mark 11:24-26 (KJV)

Unforgiveness in our heart blocks us from access to the kingdom of God. If you are breathing today there is a good chance that you have someone that you need to forgive.

By holding grudges and harboring these things in our heart we sometimes have the idea that some way we are holding them captive, that they are suffering because we refuse to forgive, how wrong that notion is.They are probably out hunting, playing golf or shopping and you are fuming over it and consumed at every thought of whatever the situation is. You are the captive; you think of that person and something rises in up and you begin to rehash the situation in your mind. Maybe it is a spouse that has hurt you, divorce,business partner that has not lived up to your expectations and you lost a lot of money; Someone you trusted with something very personal and they revealed it. You fill in the blank. Because of it you have no peace. We have all gone through something that leaves us with bitterness and a void in ourselves. This can be overcome through "the Prince of Peace". I know because I have been there. There is one particular person that for years whenever I thought of them I would begin to think of what I would say when I came in contact with them, boy would I tell them what I think. I rehearsed the talk in my heart many times and one day God spoke to my heart ( he had been trying to get through for a while) and I started by asking God to forgive me for my bitterness and help me forgive him through the same forgiveness God forgave me with and said out loud I forgive -----. It began that day and every time I thought of him or the situation instead of dwelling on it I would speak forgiveness of him. As time went by I thought of him less and less until I hardly think of him at all. Forgiveness is like a weight off you soul. It releases you from so many things. If you don't feel like forgiving, you feel you can't, or it is just something you want to hold on to just ask God to help you and begin saying a loud I forgive (fill in the blank). It will open up the windows of Heaven so that you can receive His peace.

Refer to Phillipian 4:4-7