Forgiving the Past, Embracing the Future

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Author Deborah Smith Pegues explains what forgiveness is and isn't, and highlights the rewards of having a forgiving spirit. She offers practical suggestions for going through the process of forgiveness.

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0:00.0	I'm going to decide to take this divine perspective. I'm going to decide to let
0:04.2	God let justice belongs to God. I'm not going to try to bend the wrong that was
0:08.7	perpetrated against me. I'm going to have the mindset that says, God, what is it in this?
0:13.1	How can I grow from this?
0:14.2	What are the lessons learned?
0:16.1	That's Deborah Pegay, and you'll hear more from her today
0:19.1	on Focus on the Family.
0:20.3	Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.
0:24.3	Hey today we're going to talk about forgiveness. Now some of you just went no I don't
0:28.6	want to talk about that while some of you said yeah I had to learn that lesson last week last year a couple of months ago
0:36.4	forgiveness is so important to us Matthew 614 says if you forgive others their trespasses your Heavenly Father will also forgive you.
0:45.2	That's kind of interesting that the Lord is saying hey here's how it's done.
0:50.7	Even if you've been a Christian for a long time maybe especially if you've been a Christian for a long time, maybe especially if you've been a Christian for a long time,
0:56.0	you may have forgotten these really easy, well not so easy to do, but these important principles.
1:02.0	And we're going to talk today with a special guest
1:04.3	who's written a book forgive let go and live and I know you're going to enjoy it.
1:09.3	Yeah and every time Jim that we come to the topic of forgiveness, our audience responds.
1:14.1	It just seems, as you said, to be something really crucial for us to get a hold of and
1:18.5	really hard to do.
1:20.9	And as I said, Deborah Pegay is our guest.
1:23.6	She is a certified behavioral consultant, a Bible teacher,
1:27.4	and international speaker.
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