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There are many people who suffer with incurable diseases, because of unforgiveness.  It is hard to accept, but the truth is we must forgive not only to save ourselves from sickness, but because it is a spiritual law.  No matter how much someone or several people have offended us, we have to command our spirit to forgive them.  The pain to always remember the past of an offense is not worth our time and recompense of not forgiving our enemies.  We must make a choice to love people, although it hurts to face them.  A lot of times, you have to separate yourself, in order to forgive people, because some people are demoniacally controlled to constantly hurt us, no matter how many times we forgive them, they turn around and hurt us again, enumerable offenses.  Although the Bible tells us to forgive our brother (or sister) 7 times 70 ( Matthew 18: 21-22; Luke 17:1-6), it is unhealthy to keep setting ourselves up for pain; therefore, it is smart to separate from our enemies and allow our spiritual wounds to heal while forgiving them.    There are a lot of ministers who take that scripture out of context, they often preach allow people to keep stepping on you, but Dr. Fredrick K. C. Price teaches this, “you do not allow a dog to keep biting your hand off.” A lot of people do not realize, if you keep allowing people to continue to do things that is causing you extreme pain, it stops your intent to forgive them and it is difficult to get over the prior offense when there are several offenses later.  Therefore, be wise and take care of your emotions, forgive them, but do not continue to be in the presence of a person who continues to torment you, because while you are trying to forgive, your health could be in trouble from enduring so much mental or physical abuse.  Constantly enduring any sort of offense or abuse causes a lot of suppressed anger and it makes sense to avoid it, so you can start to forgive.   The power of forgiveness is medicine to your health, but many times you have to be in a place to meditate, so you can love certain people at a distance.

How to use the the power of forgiveness?  You can use the power of forgiveness in any situation.  For example, if you have a cheating husband or wife who constantly lies about it.  You do not remain in the marriage, although you forgive them, for 2 reasons: you do not want to suffer with any sexually transmitted diseases and you do not want to keep being stepped on as if you are not a human being.  You must demand your respect from all people, it does not matter who it is.  You see, we live in a society where people think just because they are in some sort of authority, they have a right to constantly abuse you and you have to accept it, if you want money, education, a job or a prestigious position, not so.  You do not have to accept abuse, it does not matter who makes you feel like you are in error to accept it.  That is what happened to the Jim Jones followers of The People’s Temple, if you have followed the story over the years and saw the actual documentary, you will remember that the Rev. Jim Jones humiliated people so bad in front of his congregation, he made them feel like an outcast.  The way Rev. Jim Jones controlled people is through abuse and humiliation, this occurs everyday in our schools, churches, marriages, families, the only difference between millions of situations and Rev. Jim Jones, is that Rev. Jim Jones took the lives of over 900 people.  Most of the members of The People’s Temple, the followers of Rev. Jim Jones thought it was an act of unforgiveness to oppose his beliefs, sermons and abuse.  The same sort of behavior is what has affected our society and caused millions of people to become unhealthy, not just in the mind.  This is a fact, whatever negatively affects the mind will destroy the spirit and the body.  This is why it is so very important to take control of your own soul to forgive, but make sure you do not allow people to constantly mistreat you so bad, you cannot learn how to use forgiveness as medicine to your health.

Using Forgiveness To Your Health

You must forgive all people.  In the example used above, if you are in a marriage with a liar and a whore monger, take control of your life and let them know you forgive them, although you are leaving them.  Some people have the audacity to ask why, you answer: you love yourself enough not to be upset all the time and because you forgive them, you do not have to risk God not forgiving you (Mark 11:26).  Constantly ask God to give you strength to not only pray for them, but forgive them.  Some people have trouble praying for them and if you have difficulty praying for people who has hurt you, then you must immediately ask God to help you do it.  It does not matter how much it hurts, because you know, the most powerful thing about forgiveness is having the power to forgiving people, regardless of what they have done to you: verbally, sexually or physically abused you, slept within someone outside of marriage, humiliated you in front of a crowd or purposely supported watched people to offend you without defending you(most times these are close friends or relatives) and similar situations.  Often times, you may think you are feeling good by hating your enemies, but over time, you will mentally and physically suffer for not giving your offenses over to God.  There are many people who were unhealthy who became healthy, simply because they refuse to hate anyone.

Learn how to forgive and you will begin to feel better.  You may say I have forgiven those who hurt me, but I do not feel good most times.  Have you forgiven yourself.  Forgiveness is not just about forgiving others, it is also about us.  Many times, we are very miserable in life, because we are angry with ourselves.  We are bitter because we made the wrong choices in life.  It is unhealthy to hold a grudge against yourself.  You must forgive yourself and realize you are human, it does not matter if you felt you made a mistake against yourself or (done something purpose) even to someone else.  The spiritual law is also for you to love yourself so much, you refuse to hold a grudge against yourself.   A lot of times, people who betray or gossip about you will cause you to be angry with yourself.  This is when you need to immediately consult with God.  You need to spend time and give those people over to God, including what they will not allow you to forget.  This sort of treacherous messy people are toxic to you, because they often go around making your past the present.  It does not matter what you have done, the past is dead and if you hold on to memories (which most times people will not allow you to forget), you will become unhealthy.  Do not allow people who have done something to you or remind you of what you have done to yourself or someone else take steal your freedom of forgiveness, when you do so, you lose the most powerful medicine and that is, to forgive.