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Ministry Moments with Bishop T.D. Jakes on forgiveness - Part 1 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: You know, I thought that it was just amazing to
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  Speaker 1: me the many people that I counsel who are Christians
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  Speaker 1: who have been forgiven but find it difficult to forgive,
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  Speaker 1: or find it difficult to forgive themselves. And then as
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  Speaker 1: I begin to move amongst my secular friends, I found
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  Speaker 1: that they had similar issues, whether professionally or personally or maritally,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, wow, this is a subject that is
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  Speaker 1: under discussed, so I decided to write a book about it.
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  Speaker 1: I think that you know that you have really forgiven
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  Speaker 1: when it doesn't hurt anymore. It's like any other type
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  Speaker 1: of healing that when I touch an area that was
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  Speaker 1: sensitive and it is not sensitive anymore, it's not emotion
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  Speaker 1: based anymore, then you have forgiven. If forgiveness is about
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  Speaker 1: developing amnesia, will will never forget what happened as long
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  Speaker 1: as we have our mental faculties in place. But forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: is about your heart and bringing your heart out of
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  Speaker 1: it where you refuse to continue to in passion where
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  Speaker 1: you were or rather than to empower where you're going.
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  Speaker 1: I think that not practicing forgiveness will terminate valuable relationships
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  Speaker 1: that you could have, whether there are business relationships or
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  Speaker 1: personal relationships. It will cause you to walk away from
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  Speaker 1: people because they are flawed that are still gifted and valuable.
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  Speaker 1: It will cause the deterioration of people that you really
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  Speaker 1: need because you discover that there are human in some way,
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  Speaker 1: and ultimately you turn that gun on yourself because people
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  Speaker 1: who are very critical and judgmental of other people use
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  Speaker 1: it at the canvas to paint their own low self esteem,
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  Speaker 1: and ultimately they self destruct because they begin to treat
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  Speaker 1: themselves the way they've treated other people. Forgiveness is a
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  Speaker 1: gift you give yourself. Through it, you are able to
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  Speaker 1: forgive other people as well.