Letting Go of Offense

Welcome to our discussion portion of this course! I hope that this offers hope and healing for you on your journey to freedom!
An offense is the bait that Satan uses to trap you. Impossible to avoid, but possible to overcome. John exposes the deceptive progression an offense leads you on and explains how to guard your heart without hardening your heart. He also warns of the dangers of isolation and the unrealistic expectations we place on those closest to us. You will have many opportunities to become offended. How you choose to respond will determine your destiny.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Lesson Teaser
0:20 - Introduction
2:15 - What Keeps People from Getting Free from Offense
9:57 - Write It Down
10:44 - Have an Eternal Perspective
12:44 - Strongholds
14:32 - Forgiving
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[@Sondashi]

I don't think the hosts fully understand how these sessions and teaching on offence are really impacting some of our lives... my life has been really touched by the Holy Spirit through the revelations I have received from watching your sessions.

[@mariesmiley3418]

YES AND AMEN IN 2023.

[@upschutt4842]

Thank you for continuing to stand with me for my breakthrough. God is at work and I long to see.

[@alirahama6312]

Bait of Satan was a book that helped me deal with offences and forgiveness. I was at my lowest moment in my life but God healed my hurt I forgave myself so many things! I had to forgive a lot of people without their apologies! I had to allow God set me free from offences in my heart. This morning one of my dear friend shared this message with me and it has taken me back to take a closer look in my heart .

[@ChildofGod98765]

Lord Jesus Christ, you knowest my great poverty and misery, and that of myself I can do nothing without you. Father continue to give me strength. These past three years have been difficult on me I am weak. My health is failing after suffering a heart attack and I’m battling lupus. Being a single mom is challenging. Especially because both of my sons are autistic and now that I’m homeschooling them my hours to work are limited. But even as I struggle to pay rent and I struggle to buy my sons basic necessities I KEEP FAITH! Lord please take away my fear of homelessness.I know fear is a tactic of the enemy. Thankfully I have you Lord. I won’t stop praying until you answer my prayers. Please help me get through this trying time. I love you Heavenly Father.

[@rebekahambrose5839]

Pray for reconciliation and healing in relationships in my life.

[@stbrown08]

This was so good, and helped me take a deeper look inward at acknowledging and working through my offenses- thank you!!

[@luki247wor]

I can totally relate. something that i have been enlightened to is about how i have been selfish in my thoughts. Through an mentally and financially tough time that i am going through it has been so easy to just keep dwelling upon my thoughts about myself. How i am feeling, how things should be, how i deserve better, how certain people ought to help. It has been very selfish of me, and this has just pinned on to it, to start being humble, thinking less of my self and not that i am less than. Glory to God.

[@melodymutepaire-mwanza1663]

Yes Lord l need this help for the sake of my salvation everyday.

[@booyaka870]

When I think of metabolizing offense is to bless those who hurt us; bless and do not curse; when a man's ways please the lord, even his enemies are at peace with him

[@CambiBambi3821]

I love that, amen.

[@taratjohnson]

Your book and teachings regarding offense did more for me than I can articulate. Thanks for your obedience to the Holy Spirit!

[@nicolabanda2231]

I need this book.

[@melodymutepaire-mwanza1663]

I hear you "To forgive is to set a prisoner free, only to discover the prisoner was you".

[@TundeEszlari]

Wonderful content.

[@jonil.j5389]

Ty ❤

[@adinasuhittahabsibuan2648]

Agree

[@aubriellemorgan]

Sweeping the offense under the rug bc you don’t want to deal with the forgiveness aspect. You know you have to forgive (if you’re a believer), so if you don’t admit you’re offended, then there’s nothing to forgive. You try to ignore it or dismiss it. But then this breeds passive aggressive behavior depending on the offense and the person. It becomes a vicious cycle.

[@shelomoilee7815]

But what are some practical ways to deal with offense & the person(s) who offended you?

[@chelead2266]

Every situation is different. The Bible talks about general things (which they covered in this discussion so well!), but rely on the Holy Spirit for guidance with your situation because God is the only one who knows what happened, and what the other persons intentions were, and yours, and if there’s anything you can do to fix it. Sometimes there’s nothing you can do. But when given to Him He can make good come out of it. Pray for discernment and wisdom. Pray for unconditional love. Pray for healing. Pray for Gods will to be done.

[@shelomoilee7815]

@@chelead2266what a detailed response! Thank you so very much for taking the time to respond in such a kind & helpful way. Will definitely put into practice all you have said. Thanks again. ❤

[@thebalmaintigers]

Pastor John. I've been deeply offended by two pastors from the same church & past relationship & a domino of evens in the past. This current offence with the pastors haooened 5 years ago I keep hearing God warn me not to see them, Ill regret it. I can't let it go. I want to repay evil for evil. They abused there power & authority morally &, ethically & professionally. I feel so humiliated by the lack of transparency, communication & accountability from them. i want to believe vengence is Gods. He only tells me little things about it. Like let it go, forgive, the righting is on the wall, close the door. My carnival mind wants to seek justice my name was smeared. I did respond the wrong way. I swore like a sailor. I verbally gave them a tongue lashing. I cant believe I can't let it go. Im angry at God. I regularly yell at him and vent my anger verbally. I did have your book. It's good I ripped it up in anger. I'll have to to buy another one.. But i think I've had such wrong thinking for so long its a bad habit and routine of wrong thinking. My walk is sooo bad. I don't go to church & barley pray. I can't stop thinking about the offence. PLEASE PRAY THIS STRONG HOLD IS BROKEN ONCE AND FOR ALL.

[@Telepathythinker]

You can always fast too, to see the Lord’s face!

[@Mepm3p]

I am in a forgiveness process. What deeply helped me and is still helping me is four keys of forgiveness. Those keys are undoing judgement off of the offender and no longer painting yourself as the victim and removing yourself from the center of the story, having empathy for the person who hurt you and placing yourself in their shoes, having compassion (which issympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others) for the person who harmed you, and loving the person who harmed you. Loving the person is to pray for them, think good thoughts about them, be kind to them, pray for them, and bless them. In the Bible, hate in the Greek is the word miséō, which means properly, to detest (on a comparative basis); hence, denounce; to love someone or something less than someone (something) else, i.e. to renounce one choice in favor of another. Ask God for help with forgiveness with a ton of Scriptures to aid you. God has tremendously helped me and is constantly teaching me how to forgive. Practice forgiveness by praying and blessing the offender. Ask God to help you redefine your past, especially regarding what happened with the offenses and the way God sees those situations and people.