The Miracle of Forgiveness :: Ruth Graham [EP42]

In this week’s podcast, my guest Ruth Graham shares about the miracle of forgiveness. When we live with unresolved anger or hurt, the result is nearly always bitterness, broken relationships, and unhealthy behaviors. Unforgiveness if left unresolved can sabotage our entire life from the spiritual to the mental to the physical. Ruth Graham shares her personal journey to finding forgiveness in her heart for individuals who hurt her. God is about forgiveness. However, we often can’t imagine the depths of forgiveness until He demonstrates it to us. Ruth learned the truth and the meaning of forgiveness when she visited Angola prison in Louisiana.“Forgiveness is Holy. It is an opportunity to participate in the nature and character of God.”We have a choice to forgive people who have hurt us. Yet, once we make the decision to forgive, be prepared to feel all sorts of emotions because we have an Enemy who desires to make us feel like we haven’t truly forgiven. And we cannot allow that to happen. “When we know our place in Christ. We need not hold ourselves in condemnation. We want to be working for the Lord in the freedom of forgiveness.”Ruth also shares how forgiveness is vitally important in other areas of our lives, like marriage and parenting. Her mother always said that a good marriage is made up of two good forgivers since we’re always asking for forgiveness. This habit of forgiving and extending forgiveness is played out each day is only saturates our children with the learned behavior of expressing forgiveness as well as accepting forgiveness. What we chat aboutRuth’s journey to forgivenessThe meaning of forgivenessTips for those struggling with forgiveness