Transforming Bitterness into Sweetness Through Forgiveness
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"Whatever you do, don't think about a white bear. Now, all of you, right when I said, right, white bear, you immediately thought of a white bear because it's called the ironic process theory. In the 1980s, the psychologist did this study with people and he said, he basically unpacked this idea that it doesn't matter how hard you try to not think of a thing stated, that you will immediately think of that thing stated. Now, I don't know you personally, but I know that you've been hurt." [00:36:23] (38 seconds)
"And no matter how hard you try, maybe you go to therapy or you do all these things, you pray as hard as you can or you read the Bible as much as you can. You go to those small groups and nothing seems to help you get away from this white bear. And see, he's cute." [00:37:30] (18 seconds)
"But see, when you're hurt and when I'm hurt, what happens is this unforgiveness, it starts off really small and it's cute and cuddly and we can hold it, but then it grows up to what it actually is, which is something that can maul us and take our life." [00:37:52] (18 seconds)
"Watching their kids be put to death because the Pharaohs at the time said, any male child who's an Israelite, put him to death. So for 430 years, they witnessed the abuse and the forced labor and all these things that they intellectually were dealing with emotionally, physically, spiritually, their whole bodies were being hurt at every level. And they watched the Lord deliver them from that bondage." [00:42:52] (34 seconds)
"Often, when God delivers you, that day you raise your hand and you say, yes, Jesus, I want to be more like you. I want to take you. the sacrifice that you gave and I want to be saved and you're saved, we all have this tendency to think everything's going to be perfect and up to the right, but it doesn't quite go that way because we can be delivered, but the full deliverance hasn't happened." [00:43:47] (29 seconds)
"It's this is how I teach you. I teach you in the times of suffering. I teach you when that person did you wrong and said that. I did that thing and made your life miserable. I'm teaching you and I'm taking you from that deliverance and that salvation and I'm walking you through the desert because only in the desert can you truly find me." [00:45:45] (24 seconds)
"And God wants to say, get out of that and come here. I'm going to provide that very drink of water that you need. And this three days is this period of unknown." [00:47:15] (13 seconds)
"Moses threw it into the water and this made the water good to drink. It was there at Marah that the Lord set before them the following decree as a standard to test their faithfulness to him." [00:40:58] (14 seconds)
"It doesn't matter how hard we try. We can give it all our best. We can do all the right things and we're still going to fall short. When that wood hits the water of our lives, it changes us from the inside out. It makes us who we're supposed to truly be and we have to rely on that." [00:53:52] (20 seconds)
"Jehovah Rapha. And that's what we need. We need this Jehovah Rapha. We need this Jesus who heals to come into that hurt, that wound, that bitterness, that bear that lives, that white bear that lives in our heart and go, you're done. You've had a good time. You're done. You're done. You're done. You're done. You've had a good time. You've had like you're now gonna be no longer a part of their story." [00:55:21] (34 seconds)
"God delivers at some level and then God tests us and then we complain because we don't like the test and then some leader actually cries out to God and does the right thing and then God provides." [00:59:16] (17 seconds)
"Imagine if everybody in the room decided today that whoever they're mad at, whatever situation, whatever person was now going to be forgiven. Imagine what kind of revival would happen amongst this group of people." [01:03:49] (17 seconds)
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"Whatever you do, don't think about a white bear. Now, all of you, right when I said, right, white bear, you immediately thought of a white bear because it's called the ironic process theory. In the 1980s, the psychologist did this study with people and he said, he basically unpacked this idea that it doesn't matter how hard you try to not think of a thing stated, that you will immediately think of that thing stated. Now, I don't know you personally, but I know that you've been hurt." [00:36:23] (38 seconds)
"And no matter how hard you try, maybe you go to therapy or you do all these things, you pray as hard as you can or you read the Bible as much as you can. You go to those small groups and nothing seems to help you get away from this white bear. And see, he's cute." [00:37:30] (18 seconds)
"But see, when you're hurt and when I'm hurt, what happens is this unforgiveness, it starts off really small and it's cute and cuddly and we can hold it, but then it grows up to what it actually is, which is something that can maul us and take our life." [00:37:52] (18 seconds)
"Watching their kids be put to death because the Pharaohs at the time said, any male child who's an Israelite, put him to death. So for 430 years, they witnessed the abuse and the forced labor and all these things that they intellectually were dealing with emotionally, physically, spiritually, their whole bodies were being hurt at every level. And they watched the Lord deliver them from that bondage." [00:42:52] (34 seconds)
"Often, when God delivers you, that day you raise your hand and you say, yes, Jesus, I want to be more like you. I want to take you. the sacrifice that you gave and I want to be saved and you're saved, we all have this tendency to think everything's going to be perfect and up to the right, but it doesn't quite go that way because we can be delivered, but the full deliverance hasn't happened." [00:43:47] (29 seconds)
"It's this is how I teach you. I teach you in the times of suffering. I teach you when that person did you wrong and said that. I did that thing and made your life miserable. I'm teaching you and I'm taking you from that deliverance and that salvation and I'm walking you through the desert because only in the desert can you truly find me." [00:45:45] (24 seconds)
"And God wants to say, get out of that and come here. I'm going to provide that very drink of water that you need. And this three days is this period of unknown." [00:47:15] (13 seconds)
"Moses threw it into the water and this made the water good to drink. It was there at Marah that the Lord set before them the following decree as a standard to test their faithfulness to him." [00:40:58] (14 seconds)
"It doesn't matter how hard we try. We can give it all our best. We can do all the right things and we're still going to fall short. When that wood hits the water of our lives, it changes us from the inside out. It makes us who we're supposed to truly be and we have to rely on that." [00:53:52] (20 seconds)
"Jehovah Rapha. And that's what we need. We need this Jehovah Rapha. We need this Jesus who heals to come into that hurt, that wound, that bitterness, that bear that lives, that white bear that lives in our heart and go, you're done. You've had a good time. You're done. You're done. You're done. You're done. You've had a good time. You've had like you're now gonna be no longer a part of their story." [00:55:21] (34 seconds)
"God delivers at some level and then God tests us and then we complain because we don't like the test and then some leader actually cries out to God and does the right thing and then God provides." [00:59:16] (17 seconds)
"Imagine if everybody in the room decided today that whoever they're mad at, whatever situation, whatever person was now going to be forgiven. Imagine what kind of revival would happen amongst this group of people." [01:03:49] (17 seconds)
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