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8 Obedience requires loving.

I was seeking God for emotional healing from a situation that had happened in my youth. I had a friend that I believed hurt me very badly. I felt deeply wounded. I would pray and ask God to heal me.

Eventually I began to pray for the person and confess that I forgive them. Still, I knew that my heart was not whole. One day, ten years later, I received a word from God that He was sewing my heart back together. I eagerly received this word, but this was not all.

Sometime later the Lord asked me to go the person and tell them that I forgive them. I was aghast, why should I have to do this thing when I didn't do anything wrong.

It took a little while for me to come to terms with what I needed to do. I went to God and asked "If this is what you want me to do I will do it, but, I don't want to have to go looking for the person, would you bring them across my path?"

The Lord is so willing to bless us. Not too long after, I was in the mall and the person was there, I was frozen. I said "Lord I am not ready!" and didn't do it.
Again a while later, the Lord brought the person across my path and again I said I was not ready. Three strikes and you're out, right?

The final time I was out at a fair and the person came and was standing right next to me talking to someone I was with. If I didn't do it now that was is I would miss out on what God was trying to do. So I took a deep breath and did what God told me to do.

I said, "I just want you to know that I don't hold anything against you, I forgive you, I release you and I pray God's blessings upon you." The person looked at me and let out a deep sigh and said, "Do you know how long I have been praying for just that."

After that I knew I was healed. I would see the person now and actually stop and talk a bit, without feeling to hit them. I would remember, but the feelings were no longer attached with the memory.
I wonder where I would be, where my marriage would be, if I had not been obedient. I would still be a mess of a woman in my emotions. Bless God!

Sadly for some of us we do not do what God asks of us and wonder why we are caught in the same snare for 5-10-20years. Don't waste your life living in a pit.

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