Joyce shares about a time when her daughter, Sandra, refused to feel condemned after receiving God’s forgiveness, and the opportunities it opened up for her. If you have a hard time forgiving yourself and moving on from your mistakes, this is a must see.
sitting around thinking about everything
is wrong with you is not a holy thing I
think religion sometimes almost makes us
feel like it’s it’s good to feel bad
about ourselves but we should grieve
over our sins but we should also receive
forgiveness for them and then just go on
and if you don’t do that there’s no way
that you can help anybody else I want to
tell you a story that my daughter shared
with me this morning that happened to
her and she told me that it was fine for
me to share it she’s here in the middle
of this conference she’s my daughter
which means maybe even in her mind and
other people’s minds she should even
behave extra-special good and she had a
little fit yesterday she got upset
really upset about something with
herself but then she kind of took it out
on her kids by getting frustrated with
them do you ever do that when you’re
really frustrated about this but you’re
not you’re not ready to deal with that
so now you take it out on somebody else
because really God is trying to deal
with you inside man I did that for so
many years so Sandi’s had a history in
the past of having a lot of problem with
condemnation a lot of problem with
legalism a lot of works the flesh and
God has really done a great work in her
in the last I’d say couple of years in
particular and he’s really really has
just I mean I’ve seen it I’ve witnessed
has really set her free from
condemnation and when I say you’re free
from condemnation that doesn’t mean that
you’re free from ever doing anything
wrong but it does mean that you finally
get it you’re like okay I’m no surprise
to God he knew what he was getting when
he got me I love God I’m not where I
need to be but thank God I’m not where I
used to be my goal is to get up every
day and just make a little bit of
progress and even if I have a day where
I seem to go backwards or maybe another
do I need to go backwards I’m not gonna
let that stop me I’m just gonna keep on
keepin on until I reach the place that
Jesus wants me to be she said here’s
what happens she said yesterday after
having that episode she said now I’m
almost at the dome so getting ready to
come in here and how youhow are you
gonna feel what are you what are you
gonna do so she said because of what
God’s been showing me I asked my girls
to forgive me I took responsibility I
think that’s so important that we learn
how to take responsibility for our bad
behavior and stop blaming it on
everybody else including the devil amen
just because I act like the devil
doesn’t mean that it’s the devil’s fault
amen so she’s now learned she repented
she asked God to forgive her told her
girls she was sorry and she said I
walked into that dome and I didn’t have
one ounce of condemnation and she said
now here’s what happened before she got
through the dome walking through here
for different opportunities presented
themselves to pray with somebody
encourage somebody minister to somebody
pray with somebody else and she said I
know that I know that I know that I know
that if i were to walked in here
condemned that i would have totally
missed those opportunities because i
would have been so self focused that i
wouldn’t have even realized the needs of
these other people now that’s what I’m
talking about that’s what I’m talking
about
that’s why we’ve got to come to the
point where we stop all this nonsense
and we get about God’s business