The Key to Healing Emotional Hurt:
 

You will begin to heal when you let go of past hurts, forgive those who have wronged you and learn to forgive yourself of your mistakes.

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True. Forgiveness is the Key. Without forgiveness, it leads to bitterness, the root of much heartache and sin.

I see a lot of bitterness on this site.

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I've only been here for a few weeks and was surprised to read so much bitterness and anger in the posts of some of the posters on this forum. But when I thought about it I realized it makes sense. With American society and the American family so fractured and broken that people don't even know their own neighbors in many communities where else can they vent their frustration, bitterness, anger and loneliness?
Internet forums are where they can be anonymous and say what they want with just about no ramifications except to their own conscience. God has dealt with me when I pray, "Lord put people in my path that you want me to pray for" He reminds me the He has in fact done that every time I visit here and read posts from those bitter folkes that God loves and so wants to save.

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Originally Posted by renee819
Pilgrim wrote,
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I know what you mean, Pilgrim. I was on another Forum, where most were non-Pentecostal. Many of them were very mad at me. Anyway when I saw this Forum, I thought, that's what I need, my own kind of people. And many on here are. But I was very surprised at the backsliders, the bitterness, Those that had left Pentecost, and yet on a Pentecostal site. I wondered if they were here to try to drag others out with them. And then there are those that come in, seemingly to teach us Pentecostals the truth, God help them all to see the LIGHT, and not let bitterness defile them.

Maybe, by speaking thru their frustration, they will see the truth. The TRUTH is the only thing that will heal them.

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I don't think that anybody is here to drag anybody out of what you consider the "truth."

I consider Oneness Pentecostals to be my brothers and sisters in Christ, just as I consider Trinitarian Pentecostals/Charismatics, Baptist and the such to be my bothers and sisters in Christ.

I may have left Oneness Pentecost but I have not left Pentecost.

I would love for OP's to come out of legalism. Kick the legalism and it's less difficult for them to grasp "saved by grace."

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"Those that had left Pentecost, and yet on a Pentecostal site."

Well we know why they are here, God is drawing them.

With that in mind, I pray they get the healing they need, after all, if they have God on their mind that's a good thing and it shows that He is still dealing with them. Was listening to HG radio this morning and heard a old time message by I. H. Terry about not being too hard in correction (think he was at a preachers meeting), that God is our Dad and is always about forgiveness. Very good message. Reminded me that I mess up and am so fortunate that I have a Father I can go to and admit my failures and He is ALWAYS READY to forgive me, love me and give me the assurance that I am His child and He corrects and forgives me - because He loves me.

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Whenever the subject of forgiveness comes up, I am always reminded of this story by Corrie Ten Boom. I found it on this website, and have posted the story below. http://www.familylifeeducation.org/g...rieTenBoom.htm

Corrie Ten Boom Story on Forgiving

“It was in a church in Munich that I saw him—a balding, heavyset man in a gray overcoat, a brown felt hat clutched between his hands. People were filing out of the basement room where I had just spoken, moving along the rows of wooden chairs to the door at the rear. It was 1947 and I had come from Holland to defeated Germany with the message that God forgives.

“It was the truth they needed most to hear in that bitter, bombed-out land, and I gave them my favorite mental picture. Maybe because the sea is never far from a Hollander’s mind, I liked to think that that’s where forgiven sins were thrown. ‘When we confess our sins,’ I said, ‘God casts them into the deepest ocean, gone forever. …’

“The solemn faces stared back at me, not quite daring to believe. There were never questions after a talk in Germany in 1947. People stood up in silence, in silence collected their wraps, in silence left the room.

“And that’s when I saw him, working his way forward against the others. One moment I saw the overcoat and the brown hat; the next, a blue uniform and a visored cap with its skull and crossbones. It came back with a rush: the huge room with its harsh overhead lights; the pathetic pile of dresses and shoes in the center of the floor; the shame of walking naked past this man. I could see my sister’s frail form ahead of me, ribs sharp beneath the parchment skin. Betsie, how thin you were!

[Betsie and I had been arrested for concealing Jews in our home during the Nazi occupation of Holland; this man had been a guard at Ravensbruck concentration camp where we were sent.]

“Now he was in front of me, hand thrust out: ‘A fine message, Fräulein! How good it is to know that, as you say, all our sins are at the bottom of the sea!’

“And I, who had spoken so glibly of forgiveness, fumbled in my pocketbook rather than take that hand. He would not remember me, of course—how could he remember one prisoner among those thousands of women?

“But I remembered him and the leather crop swinging from his belt. I was face-to-face with one of my captors and my blood seemed to freeze.

“ ‘You mentioned Ravensbruck in your talk,’ he was saying, ‘I was a guard there.’ No, he did not remember me.

“ ‘But since that time,’ he went on, ‘I have become a Christian. I know that God has forgiven me for the cruel things I did there, but I would like to hear it from your lips as well. Fräulein,’ again the hand came out—’will you forgive me?’

“And I stood there—I whose sins had again and again to be forgiven—and could not forgive. Betsie had died in that place—could he erase her slow terrible death simply for the asking?

“It could not have been many seconds that he stood there—hand held out—but to me it seemed hours as I wrestled with the most difficult thing I had ever had to do.

“For I had to do it—I knew that. The message that God forgives has a prior condition: that we forgive those who have injured us. ‘If you do not forgive men their trespasses,’ Jesus says, ‘neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.’

“I knew it not only as a commandment of God, but as a daily experience. Since the end of the war I had had a home in Holland for victims of Nazi brutality. Those who were able to forgive their former enemies were able also to return to the outside world and rebuild their lives, no matter what the physical scars. Those who nursed their bitterness remained invalids. It was as simple and as horrible as that.

“And still I stood there with the coldness clutching my heart. But forgiveness is not an emotion—I knew that too. Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ‘… Help!’ I prayed silently. ‘I can lift my hand. I can do that much. You supply the feeling.’

“And so woodenly, mechanically, I thrust my hand into the one stretched out to me. And as I did, an incredible thing took place. The current started in my shoulder, raced down my arm, sprang into our joined hands. And then this healing warmth seemed to flood my whole being, bringing tears to my eyes.

“ ‘I forgive you, brother!’ I cried. ‘With all my heart!’

“For a long moment we grasped each other’s hands, the former guard and the former prisoner. I had never known God’s love so intensely, as I did then”

(excerpted from “I’m Still Learning to Forgive” by Corrie ten Boom. Reprinted by permission from Guideposts Magazine. Copyright © 1972 by Guideposts Associates, Inc., Carmel, New York 10512>).