A Prayer to Forgive When the Other Person Is Not Sorry

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Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Nobody has more experience in offering a pardon to wrongdoers than the Lord. No one is more justified to judge than the Father—but he offers forgiveness. And so must we follow. - Chris Eyte

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0:00.0	Life Audio.
0:04.0	Thank you for listening to your daily prayer. Thank you for listening to your daily prayer, a podcast dedicated to helping you find the words you need to connect with your father and heaven. No matter what is going on in your life today, he can trust that God wants to hear from
0:25.7	you.
0:26.7	Rived after this short word from a sponsor, we will pray through today's prayer to forgive
0:31.5	when the other person is not sorry. A prayer to forgive when the other person is not sorry, written and read by Chrisite.
0:57.0	But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him. He ran to his son, through
1:07.6	his arms around him, and kissed him. Luke Chapter 15.
1:13.4	20 The story of the Prodigal son is familiar to most of us.
1:20.7	How the son rebels goes to a foreign country and squanders his father's money.
1:27.0	Then he returns and asks for forgiveness, and he is readily accepted again by his dad.
1:33.0	We are told what the son did in the foreign country,
1:36.0	with the wild parties and easy living,
1:39.0	but we're not given so much detail by Jesus
1:42.0	about the father during that horrible time when his child
1:45.4	rebalows and that's for a simple reason he is waiting the father is at his home
1:57.6	binding his time, watching for his son. His eyes search the horizon hopefully, day after day. He knows that at that time the son is not sorry, but the father trusts
2:08.0	that his boy will return to him. The situation hurts terribly, but he chooses faith not despair and then one day after a long time
2:17.4	the young woman does come home again. It is a helpful illustration for those of us wanting a loved one to turn around and walk in the right direction again.
2:27.0	It's not a quick process who can take years and years waiting for the other person to come to their senses.
2:34.0	Sometimes they don't and the problem proceeds to eternity and judgment by the living
2:39.2	God. Even then we are compelled to forgive by the love of Christ to leave it with the Lord.
2:46.6	It is hard to bear the scars or forgiving someone who isn't interested in being forgiven.
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