Spiritual Amnesia – Learning To Forget

Amnesia:

a partial or total loss of memory

forgetfulness

a consistent inability to remember

Love… keeps no record of being wronged.

1 Corinthians 13:5 (NLT)

I want to see all people as God sees them, that is, not imputing their trespasses unto them.

A Holy spirit inspired prayer about learning to forgive. Excerpted from the coming book, Aught Against Any: Learning to Forgive

Lord, teach me to have amnesia for the wrongs done to me by others. I don’t want to remember them anymore or see these people through the eyes of their wrongdoing towards me. Let every record of their wrongdoing against me be erased from my heart and my mind. Let me have amnesia, a loss of memory, a consistent inability to remember, for the wrongs done to me by anybody.

I want to see all people as God sees them, that is, not imputing their trespasses unto them.

2Corinthians 5:19 says that,

For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them

2 Corinthians 5:19 (NLT)

I am in Christ and like God my Father, I want to no longer count people’s sins against them.

1 John 4:8 says that,

…God is love

1 John 4:8 (NLT)

I want to see people as Love sees them, as God sees them, through the eyes of love, from a heart of love. Let my heart hold nothing against anyone. I want to be unable to see or to keep record of the wrongs people have done to me, but to forget them immediately, like a child and to keep loving them.

End!

In Mathew 5:44 our Lord Jesus Christ says,

But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,

Matthew 5:44 (NKJV)

In this passage of scripture, Jesus gives us a four-point key to dealing with offence, the grudges, the unforgiveness that can build up in our hearts towards those who wrong us abuse and misuse us – love, bless, do good, pray for…!

1. Love your enemies; not your friends, you already love your friends; anyone can love a friend, but your enemies! That’s a whole different matter! That’s harder to do.
2. Bless those who curse you. This is how the first century apostles of Jesus Christ lived. See 1 Corinthians 4:12
3. Do good to those who hate you. See Romans 12:20
4. Pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. Jesus says to pray for them and not against them.

If you’re offended at what someone has done to you, love them, bless them, do good to them, and pray for, not against, them.

Doing these things for our enemies will humble us and deal with any unforgiveness in our hearts towards them.

This is the right way to handle these things. 

Living this way will infuriate and defeat the devil and his strategies. Walking in love and forgiveness in this way is spiritual warfare of a high order or level. Offence and unforgiveness are the devil’s strategies to gain a foothold and ultimately a stronghold in our hearts and our lives. Let’s give him no place in us.

Let’s follow the example of the apostle Paul who chose not to be distracted from preaching the gospel by his persecutions.

True forgiveness is irrational, it doesn’t make sense. Don’t try to rationalize it, just do it as God did for you. Let’s l