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Reflections on Forgiveness and the Power of Letting Go · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  So, it is currently February 16th, 2025. It's a Sunday night.
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  It's 9.15 in the evening.
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  Why am I saying that? Well, because when you hear this, it'll be Monday, February 17th, 2025.
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  And that's because I got mandated at my job. And I was working from 7 a.m.
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  To about 9.10 at night. So, there's no way I would have been able to stay up
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  tomorrow morning, which is your Monday now, to do a formal episode.
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  So, Have Faith, Let It Begin, Crazy Edition, starts right now.
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  Have Faith, Let It Begin. It starts right now.
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  Welcome to Have Faith, Let It Begin. Here's your host, Angel Santana.
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  Ariel, can you say, Have Faith?
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  Let it begin. Let it begin? Let it begin.
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  Say, Have Faith. Let it begin. Let it begin. No. No? Okay.
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  Hi, Noah. Noah! Noah!
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  Happy birthday, Noah! I'll film baby. It's November.
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  Little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.
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  This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.
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  This little light of rain, I'm gonna let it shine. Let it shine. Let it say.
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  Let it say. Yeah.
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  Daddy, I'm so excited. But I have one question. What's your question?
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  I'm going to be a pastor or a minister.
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  Good question. I don't know, but it is all in God's hands. Good morning.
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  You're listening to Have Faith Lab again, and it starts right now.
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  Hey, everyone, and welcome to the, let's see,
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  Monday morning edition for you, 9 17 p.m for me that's right i am about to start
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  my well i've had the car started but i'm about to get going here and you're
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  going to travel with me and keep me awake so they're warming up my car and we're
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  off so here we go it uh happy monday for all of you i'll be passed out.
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  For tomorrow morning, but I make sure that it will air for you on time.
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  Here we go. I have been watching and reading just to give you an update on the whole ministry school.
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  I have formally finished the gospel of Mark.
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  I've done Mark, Luke, John, and I am now on Acts.
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  So it's awesome. I'm having a great time.
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  Also kind of watching the chosen again, because it's coming back and I I wanted
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  to kind of, you know, get some characters in my mind and actors that are portraying
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  Peter and Jesus and all that.
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  So that when I read the material, kind of have like a face to go with it because
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  I'm really into the characters and the people that are portraying,
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  not characters, but the people that are portraying the real life people in the Bible on The Chosen.
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  And I wanted to talk to you a little bit about a word that I have used a lot
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  in our seven years here at Have Faith Let It Begin.
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  And that's a very powerful word. It's forgiveness.
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  Forgiveness is such a powerful, strong word.
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  And it's the door's locked here in my car, in my truck, I should say.
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  Forgiveness is so, so powerful. You know, when I hear that word,
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  I think about recent events within the last 10 years.
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  I call it recent events and I drop out 10 years, but it feels like yesterday.
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  And when I think back about it, I, I think about all the hurt that happened
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  and without getting into too, too much detail, it was just a very hard time for me in June of 2014.
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  Something happened to me that was very, very traumatic for me and was very, very difficult.
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  And it made it very difficult for quite some time.
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  It took about almost four and a half to five years to learn to forgive somebody
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  that hurt me, two people actually.
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  And when I think about the word forgiveness, I try to compare myself with what
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  happened to me and what was happening to Christ.
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  And not that I'm trying to even close to comparing to what Jesus did for us, to my situation.
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  But I try to sit there and say to myself, wow, how he was able to forgive all of the people.
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  Came after him, that spit on him, and that beat him up, that crucified him,
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  just everything, even the people that were making fun of him as he was dying on the cross.
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  Yet he was able to say, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.
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  I started thinking about when I was able to forgive.
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  And even today, 11 years later, it will be 11 years later, I still struggle
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  with that word forgiveness.
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  And even though I forgave both individuals, I feel as if sometimes I have to
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  remind myself and to play back in my mind as I was saying those words,
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  how I felt more at peace,
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  even though I did nothing wrong.
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  And I think about all of you and I say to you the question, When was the last
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  time you forgave someone?
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  We're human, right? We've all at one point have been hurt.
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  We've all been put in a position where somebody has done something to us and
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  we've had this feeling of uncertainty or maybe this feeling of insecure, insecurities.
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  And just not feeling like we are worthy and just of power to say, I forgive you.
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  And sometimes we throw that word around. Oh, you know, I forgive you.
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  It's all good. But you really don't forgive.
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  You know what I mean? Like we said those words before. I know I have and I haven't meant it.
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  But as I've gotten closer to the Lord and have built a amazing foundation with
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  Christ, I can honestly tell you that I have forgiven people and I have forgiven those two individuals.
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  And it's even though I forgave, it still hurts.
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  It hurts because I have to remember of their actions.
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  But even though I'm sharing with all of you that it hurt, I also sense this feeling of relief.
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  And I feel as if even when I talk about it today, Christ is holding on to me
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  and saying, you did the right thing.
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  So I want all of you today to think about that word, forgiveness. I want all of you to.
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  Think about anything or anyone that has hurt you or has made you feel uncomfortable.
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  Anything that you feel deserves forgiveness. And I love what they say,
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  you know, forgiveness is earned. It's not given.
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  I want you to think about that. I'm not here to tell you what to do.
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  It took me five years to forgive.
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  And there's more forgiveness I have to do.
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  There's others that I have to forgive. And as I'm doing this,
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  as I'm learning to go back and deal with certain things that I know I need to
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  forgive others for doing,
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  as I slowly check this off my list, I feel even closer to God.
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  So I'm just asking all of you to think about forgiveness.
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  Think about all that has happened to all of us. And I want you to just think
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  about forgiving someone today while working on your hardest to figure out a way to forgive.
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  And if you're not sure how to do it, if you're uncertain, and if you're hurting
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  just because I'm bringing it up,
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  let's pray together and hope that this prayer helps you as it did me,
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  our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy need.
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  Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
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  Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil for yours is the kingdom,
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  the power and the glory forever. Amen.
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  Heavenly Father, at this time, I ask you to watch over our half faith that it begins family.
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  I ask you, Lord, to just come into our hearts, allow the love of you and your
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  healing touch, and allow the Holy Spirit to come into our hearts,
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  breathe into the ears of us saying, it's okay to let go. It's okay to forgive.
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  It's okay to move forward. And I just hope and pray that today's episode reaches all of you.
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  As we leave you with prayers for our good friend, Dr.
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  E, who lost his dog, his pet dog, and that's why he's not with us here today.
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  We pray for Dr. E and his family. We pray for Denise. We continue to lift up in prayer.
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  Gigi, June, June, Junebug, Gigi. We pray for Phillip.
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  We pray for Joanne. We lift up in prayer our colleagues at work,
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  our pastors and ministries and churches.
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  We pray for first responders and we pray for doctors and nurses.
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  EMTs, firefighters, police, fire and rescue.
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  We lift up in prayer Carol as they honored Dennis.
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  We pray for her. We pray for Douglas and Kenneth.
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  We continue to lift up in prayer our brothers and sisters, our nieces and nephews,
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  our aunts and uncles, our grandparents, and finally, we pray for every single
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  one of you as you go about your day.
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  May God be with you. May he shine his light upon you and grant each and every
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  single one of you peace on earth.
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  Remember that God loves you. God believes in you. God trusts you. God forgives you.
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  And God is never going to leave your side. And never forget,
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  have faith, let it begin. Have a great night, everyone.
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  And I'll see you Tuesday. Thank you for listening to Have Faithful Weekend. I'll be back tomorrow.