How it works...
The Power of Repentance:
Repentance is a decisive change in direction, a change of mind leading to a change of attitude. It is important to repent in gaining and maintaining freedom or we would just go through the motions of forgiveness and then defaulting back to what is in our mind. When we hold on to things or unforgiveness, we are in fact sinning and going against the normal operation of our makeup. Unrepentance causes accusations against us and allows legal grounds for unwanted feelings, attitudes, and actions. Repentance demolishes clusters that keep us in bondage. In most cases, when we hold unforgiveness and wounds there is also a lot of presumption and assumption towards the event or towards the one deemed to have hurt us. Repentance becomes a necessary step to take in order to have clear judgement or else we will continue to have a clouded perspective.
Understanding Forgiveness:
Forgiveness is a deliberate and conscious decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance towards a person or a group who has harmed you whether they deserve it or not. We need to know that forgiveness is not a feeling, we are not just going to wake up one morning and feel like it. It is a choice, a decision and one we need to be intentional about. A well known saying is that “Time heals all wounds”. This is not true and a myth. People compartmentalize their hurt and ignore things that they haven’t dealt with, often not realising that they are being controlled by those very things they have buried inside them. Forgiveness helps eradicate these subtle controllers. While we don’t see it, unforgiveness operates in us over time. It wears different faces like anger, sickness, depression, bad relationships, the list is endless. Furthermore, we ought to understand that when we do not forgive, the punishment is not on the other person but ourselves. Therefore, the act of forgiveness frees us, restores us back to who we really are, heals us, gives us peace, and clears our internal and external atmosphere giving us hope in all things.
Letting go:
Letting go is being willing to release the past whether good or bad so that you can live in the present and be happy. It is the act of releasing something that we have been holding onto, whether it be words, actions, jobs, past relationships, what could have been, ties. It is allowing yourself to move from one season to another, casting cares and embracing peace. Letting go is not allowing oneself to be controlled by something that makes no difference to who we are and where we are. It is the act of destroying the power of self-sabotage, hinderances and punishment in our lives.
Changing Mindsets:
Our Mindset has a lot of influence in what happens in our life. If a person changes the way they think, their life will transform. Renewing the mind is simply changing the patterns of our thoughts, the way we see, perceive, understand things and even how we think of things. Whenever one wants to see change in their lives, it is important to examine how one presently thinks and see how one can begin to exercise a thought pattern that exemplifies the desired outcome.
Healing:
Healing is so important for us as much as self-development, jobs and food. When it comes to physical healing, we do not have a problem with intentionally seeking help to restore ourselves. However, when it comes to emotional wounds and heartbreak, we tend to hide it and tuck it away in fear of being called weak. Sometimes the physical illnesses may be a manifestation of what is internally happening. Our all round well-being is of paramount importance and should be seen as equal. Jesus paid for all our sicknesses and this includes even the unseen wounds we harbour. The Holy spirit is present to heal every manner of sickness.