Forgiving What You Can’t Forget | Lysa TerKeurst | Elevation Church

The best time to forgive is before we’re ever offended. The next best time is now!

GOD knows you are tired. Do not give up. Your breakthrough is just around the corner. You are transitioning into a new season! You will end the year strong and victorious in the Name of Jesus.

Last year a time like this I was declared infertile in the papers of many doctors and specialists but today God turned everything around and I will be holding my bundle of joy in few weeks time 🙏🙏🙏

This just started playing as I was closing my bible study. My husband of 27 years told me yesterday he regrets the day he married me. I was just wondering how you come back from that. I thougt if I try to talk to him to ask if he meant it and he says omething smart or worse he says yes I would be crushed. I felt humiliated, I felt bent but not broken. This was Yah's answer to my prayer. Sharing really is caring. I can't believe I posted this, but I feel so much better. Halleluyah

My heart is shattered every time there is a topic about forgiveness 😭😭😭😭Unforgiveness has destroyed my relationship with God.I’m a Christian with so much pain..💔💔💔Pray for me.😢

Did you ever watch a sermon and scream why is this so short??? I seriously loved this, thank you

I definitely needed this. I went through a divorce 15 years ago to my high school sweetheart of 16 years marriage & 18 years together. He cheated our entire marriage. I believe I knew in my heart. Yet never investigated it. We didn't have Jesus in our life. He became an alcoholic. I lost my marriage & my Dad within 10 days. I was at my lowest point in my life. We divorced. Jesus came to me & became my Saviour. Fast forward like 7 years. My ex husband was imprisoned for 5 years. I tried to be a good Christian & have been trying to share Jesus with him since. He doesn't want anything to do with God. He has been out of prison for 2 years. We tried to be friends but the head games started again. Plus inviting me to his bed. 🙄 The flood of emotions from 15 years ago come back. I have shed so many tears. I have told God I can't help him. That I have to love from afar by praying for him. God has to be the one to intervene.

i started crying when she said she was sorry, i didn’t think i needed to hear that and i feel relieved

I had to listen to this today... Thank you holy spirit for making me click.

Forgiveness doesn’t mean reconciliation. Forgiveness doesn’t mean you suppress anger or never feel angry about it. Forgiveness doesn’t mean allowing your abusers back in your life and forgiveness doesn’t mean you have to have relationships with toxic abusive family members or friends or to stay in an abusive relationship. Forgiveness doesnt mean overlooking repeated offenses that that person is not repenting of and therefore continually hurting you. Forgiveness does not mean making excuses and allowing that person to continue to hurt you harm you disrespect you or destroy your life. Forgiveness does not mean gaslighting yourself or having fluffy feelings for that person again no matter who it is. Forgiveness does not mean forget.

Lysa’s book Good Boundaries and Good Byes was truly a game changer for me. I read it a few weeks ago and it felt like she wrote it for me. It changed how I viewed a very difficult situation and how I’d been handling a difficult person. So Lysa, if you see this, thank you.❤

I have forgiven but I just can’t forget 😔 Lord heal my mind 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I think my number one reason to forgive, not only because it’s a commandment, but I am human and I may fail at times, and need someone’s forgiveness towards me!!

I'm a 49 year old man and I cry like a baby every time I hear this. My 17 year old son is an Atheist and I think of God coming after him and it brings me so much comfort.

I choose to have forgiveness in my heart, I hold no ill will towards anyone, and I bless my enemies in the name of Jesus

💐all I can do is give her her flowers because from the beginning to the end, she told me everything I've been needing to hear.

Wow....... currently going through a divorce of 14 yrs..... i found myself in a dark place, even tried to commit... then I started counseling.. and I accepted the reality of what my life has become. I forgive him and his decision, i forgive myself and I trust in God that I will overcome this. I can totally relate, thank you for this!

I feel like Me and Lysa just had a personal conversation 😊😊..ooh glorious day...thank you Jesus for using this Woman of God sharing Her testaments of your work in Her❤❤

Unforgiveness started a chain of events that changed my life forever. I cannot advocate for forgiveness enough.

"I believe you.. I'm so so sorry" And every word shared in this spoke volumes to me. Thank you Lord!!