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Today's Word 09-30-26 Don't Let a Fence Steal Your Peace · The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey

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  Speaker 1: Nobody does it like your early morning praise party. I
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  Speaker 1: am Sherri Mackey and it's time right now for today's word.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let offense steal your peace. Luke 17 and four says,
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  Speaker 1: even if that person wrongs you seven times a day
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  Speaker 1: and each time turns again and asks for forgiveness, you
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  Speaker 1: must forgive. Now let's be honest. People can hurt your feelings, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a rude coworker who speaks to you disrespectfully.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a family member who doubts you, a friend
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  Speaker 1: who walks away, or someone you trust who disappoints you.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes the people who hurt us the most are
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  Speaker 1: the very people we never.
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  Speaker 2: Expected to hurt us at all.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus understood that offenses would come. In Luke 17, as
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  Speaker 1: he prepared his disciples for the challenges ahead, he made
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  Speaker 1: it clear that he would encounter people who would hurt, disappoint,
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  Speaker 1: and offend them. But Jesus didn't warn them about the offense.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't just do that. He taught them how to respond.
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  Speaker 2: Forgive.
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  Speaker 1: He even said that if someone wronged them repeatedly and
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  Speaker 1: came back asking for forgiveness, they were to steal, forgive.
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  Speaker 2: See, that's not always easy, is it?
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  Speaker 1: When somebody hurts you, your first instinct may be to
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  Speaker 1: replay the conversation. Rehearse what you wish you had said.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine how you respond the next time you see them.
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  Speaker 1: And the more you think about it, the more upset
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  Speaker 1: you become. Before long, one painful moment has taken over
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts, affected your mood, and stolen your joy. The
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  Speaker 1: person who offended you may have moved on, and you're
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  Speaker 1: still carrying the weight of of what happened. Don't allow
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  Speaker 1: somebody else's action to take a permanent residence in your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Forgiveness is how you begin to release the weight. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean what the person did was acceptable. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that you have to pretend you weren't hurt. Restore
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  Speaker 1: trust immediately and allow someone to keep on mistreating you. No,
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  Speaker 1: you can forgive someone and still establish some healthy boundaries.
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  Speaker 1: Forgiveness means you refuse to let bitterness control your heart.
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  Speaker 1: And the sooner you began working through an offense, the
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  Speaker 1: less opportunity it is to grow into resentment. That doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean every hurt disappears overnight. Some wounds take time. It
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  Speaker 1: takes prayer. It takes support to heal. But you can
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  Speaker 1: make the decision not to feed the bitterness. So when
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  Speaker 1: somebody offends you, pause before you react.
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  Speaker 2: Pray before you respond.
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  Speaker 1: Give yourself room to process the hurt and then ask
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  Speaker 1: God to help you release what you can't change. You
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  Speaker 1: can't control what people say about you. You can't control
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  Speaker 1: how people treat you or whether they apologize. But with
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  Speaker 1: God's help, you can choose how you respond.
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  Speaker 2: So protect your peace, guard your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Forgive freely and refuse to let offense turn into someone
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  Speaker 1: or turn you into someone you were never meant to be.
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  Speaker 1: You have too much purpose to spend your days carrying
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's hurt. Father, thank you for teaching us the power
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  Speaker 1: of forgiveness. Help us release the hurt, the disappointment, and
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  Speaker 1: the offense we've been carrying.
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  Speaker 2: When people wound us, give us the.
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  Speaker 1: Grace to respond with wisdom instead of anger and forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: instead of bitterness. Teach us to guard our hearts, establish
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  Speaker 1: healthy boundaries, and refuse to let resentment steal our peace.
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  Speaker 1: Heal the places in us that still hurt and help
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  Speaker 1: us extend the same mercy to others that you've shown
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  Speaker 1: to us in Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 2: That's your word for today.
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  Speaker 1: Take it, apply it to your everyday life, and you
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  Speaker 1: continue to be encouraged and inspired.
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  Speaker 2: It is your early morning praise party. I am Sherri Mackey.