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Welcome to Susie Larson Live. I'm always so honored to get to spend this time with you. I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's word and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life.

Well, as you know, if you're listening, we've dedicated this whole month to the theme of forgiveness.

One, because it's biblical, and two, it's essential to our spiritual health.

If you walk around with an accumulated sense of pile of grudges and offenses in your heart,

it will affect you in your health, emotionally,

mentally, physically, most importantly, spiritually. And if you spend more time looking at the

faults of others than you do time taking inventory of your own soul, the honest, hard truth is

you'll never mature. But God wants you to walk in ever increasing levels of humility, of strength,

of identity, of assurance of

your security in him. And you have an important calling on your life. And whether or not you forgive

directly impacts your influence. In his brilliant book, Total Forgiveness, R.T. Kendall writes this.

When Jesus said, if you forgive men when they sin against you, your Heavenly Father will forgive you.

He was not talking about how to achieve salvation. He was referring to receiving the

an anointing of God and participating in an intimate relationship with the Father. Unless we're

in a state of forgiveness towards others, we cannot be in an intimate relationship with God.

That's why we have such a really emphasis this month and especially this week on forgiveness.

We want you free.

We want you free, but we also want you walking in the fullness of your calling, in the greatest

anointing that you've ever experienced, where you are blessing your offenders and you're

watching God intervene in your story.

Can somebody give me an amen?

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