Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Michael Ehm
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00041C
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00:05 God is absolutely the coolest.
00:06 So when you think, for me at least, when I think I 00:09 figured it all out, when I think I've healed. 00:11 Not only have I healed and done this forgiveness thing, 00:15 I can teach about this. 00:16 I do Women's Ministry and teach about this stuff. 00:20 And yet then something like today happens, and God 00:22 brings all that to the surface that there is still 00:25 within me something that I have to deal with, that I have 00:28 to look at, and He does it in such a gentle way. 00:31 He just says, you know what Hon, you're stuck here, 00:34 your lost here. 00:35 I don't know if you saw what just happened here with 00:38 me and this guy, this club owner. 00:40 Everything that I wanted to say to him, I wanted to grab 00:44 him by the throat, when I first met him coming into 00:47 the studio, and I'm not like this. 00:49 I just want to say, you know what, I am so not wanting 00:52 you to talk right now. 00:53 I'm having people pray for me and help me do this show. 00:56 And all of a sudden I hear his story, his damage, 01:00 and there is a part of me that just wants to say man, 01:04 I thought it was all me, I thought I was the 01:06 only one damaged here. 01:07 And I want to say I'm sorry, I want to say, 01:09 you know what I forgive you. 01:12 And in saying that and feeling that and going there, 01:16 my whole being just feels like I stepped into 01:19 another place with God. 01:21 A better understanding of what He is trying to do with 01:24 us here, not only forgive us, not only receiving that. 01:27 Not only as healing by stepping into that 01:29 relationship, but I want you so to forgive the 01:31 other person, the person that damaged you, 01:34 because they are damaged too. 01:36 They are damaged too and I am working with all of you guys. 01:39 And there is healing that happens there, and then I'm 01:41 thinking, in my devotions this morning I'm going through 01:46 this passage on forgiveness. 01:47 I'm thinking God, how funny is that. 01:50 How funny is it that today, the show and this about 01:54 forgiveness, and I feel like God just smiled and 01:57 said Hon, it's about time that you got that. 02:00 So, I want to share with you what God was trying to 02:03 share with me before I even came on this program so 02:06 that I could be ready to go there. 02:10 To learn about this forgiveness. 02:12 It says that we all suffer from brokenness in our lives. 02:15 In our relationship with God and in our 02:18 relationships with others. 02:19 Brokenness tends to weigh us down, and it can easily 02:23 turn us back into our addictions. 02:26 It can easily set us up for failure, recovery isn't 02:29 complete until all the areas of 02:31 our brokenness are healed. 02:33 And towards the end of my devotions for this morning 02:35 it says, giving and receiving forgiveness is an essential 02:38 part of our present healing. 02:40 This requires that we make peace with God, with 02:43 ourselves and with those who have alienated. 02:47 I didn't even know that I alienated some club owner, 02:49 I did know that. 02:50 It wasn't even something that I was physically aware of. 02:53 So let me go back to this. 02:56 So once we go through the process of making of amends, 02:58 we must keep our minds and hearts open to anyone who 03:02 maybe we have overlooked. 03:04 God will often remind us of relationships that need 03:07 attention, when these come to mind we should stop 03:09 everything and go to those who we have offended 03:13 or that have offended us. 03:14 And to go to those in to say man, forgive me. 03:18 It is really interesting to me after this program, 03:20 all of a sudden I am feeling a whole weight off of me. 03:24 I'm feeling when Michael's side can you forgive me? 03:27 I can even tell you I even wanted to weep and wanted to say 03:30 you know what, thank you so much for offering me that. 03:33 For giving me even the realization that 03:35 I still had all that junk. 03:36 And I wanted to say God, how cool are You! 03:38 That You never let up on us, that you never stop 03:41 in bringing us further and further into our healing. 03:44 So if you have somebody that you still are having 03:46 stuff against, man forgive them. 03:48 And until then see a next time on 03:51 Celebrating Life In Recovery. |
Revised 2014-12-17