Forgiveness

Do you need to extend forgiveness
to someone who has caused you harm?
Do you need to open up your heart?
Do you need to open up your arms?

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Jesus extended forgiveness 

the day He sacrificed His life

He extended forgiveness 

with His arms stretched out wide

 

Jesus extended forgiveness 

with His feet nailed to a tree

He extended forgiveness

to you and to me

 

Jesus extended forgiveness 

with every drop of blood He bled

He extended forgiveness

with a thorny crown upon His Head

 

And with all the pain He had

and was still going through

Jesus asked that we be forgiven

for we know not what we do

 

Do you need to extend forgiveness

to someone who has caused you harm?

Do you need to open up your heart?

Do you need to open up your arms?

 

Do you need to ask anyone to forgive something that you’ve done?

Do you need to ask for forgiveness from God’s Begotten Son? 

It seems absurd to hold grudges, to hang onto things, big or small

Jesus paid for the entire world’s sin, and He forgives us all

 

Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. 

Colossians 3:13

 

 

This is an excerpt from Echoes of His Heart

Featured Image by Aarón Blanco Tejedor

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About the Author

Debbie always had a desire to write a book, but didn’t have a clue as to what the content could be. Children’s books and short stories piqued her interest most. She had dabbled with writing family-oriented poems, off and on over the years, but became overwhelmed with a hunger to write about God and His love in her late fifties. She started seeing God everywhere she looked whether it was in a deck of cards, movie titles, nursery rhymes, popular sayings, flower petals, or a baseball game. She finally realized that prophecy was being fulfilled when one of her sons told her that her poetry glorified God and was meant to be shared. The Lord’s words from an encounter in 2011 immediately returned to her. She had found her own way to speak about God just like He told her she would. Debbie is sharing her poetry in hopes that it will nourish and strengthen souls for the Kingdom of God. She refers to her poetic style as floetry, as it is the move of the Holy Spirit flowing from her heart to another. Her desire to flood the prisons with her book is due to God’s belief in her, and in her belief that no one can cast the first stone, but that everyone can help someone who is in desperate need of a Savior. Please visit Debbie’s Home Page for more information.