You have to heal from your emotional pain before you can forgive, right?

Not according to Nancy Lee-Demause.

I will leave the point of making the choice to forgive, to press the delete button, to let it go.

More often than not is what sets us into the process of healing.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Friday, November 9th.

You've joined us in a series called Seeking Him.

Each week during the series, Nancy's been presenting a characteristic of personal revival.

This week's focus is forgiveness.

Yesterday, we heard Nancy describing her helpful book, choosing forgiveness.

Lisa Berry was part of that discussion, and they're back to talk about practical ways to forgive.

Okay, Nancy, let's imagine this.

I'm walking through a Christian bookstore.

I've got a five-ton trailer of anger and resentment, and I need relief

now. Now, I see your book on the shelf, and I pick it up and I start leafing through it madly

to try to get to those magic words that are going to tell me what I need to hear, what I need to say

in one sentence that is going to help me to unhook this

heavy trailer that I've got. Am I going to find that in your book?

Well, I don't know that there's any sentence anyone can say that it's going to quickly and

easily help someone get rid of that 510 trailer because you didn't get it overnight. That

five-ton trailer is an accumulation of hurts and years and how like us to want overnight to

undo and change years, what has taken years to get to that point. So I think we need to realize in a sense there

are no quick fixes. But I do believe that through the process of forgiveness, there is a means

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