The Courage To Forgive | Carter Conlon
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- Опубліковано 18 січ 2023
- In "The Courage To Forgive", Pastor Carter Conlon speaks from Luke 11 on how Jesus taught that we must forgive others in our hearts in order to live life fully.
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January 18, 2023 - Carter Conlon - Times Square Church
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My daughter had walked away from the Lord. She came down with an incurable disease and my prayers for her were first and foremost for her salvation and, of course, healing. One day, out of the blue, I heard God's voice in my spirit. He said "Lori may have walked away from me but I have not walked away from her". Before she passed away, she gave me assurance that she truly believed in Jesus our savior. He will never leave or forsake a child of His...Hallelujah!!!
❤️❤️❤️ God is good! I keep getting mad for being sick too, then I try to behave myself. Turns out I was having a hormonal imbalance too, from getting sick I guess, and it was making me mental and suicidal/angry/etc. Your daughter may have dealt with this too. Thank God He doesn't walk away! I took a supplement, which made me better then way worse, so was scared to take it again. After a long break, He told me to take it again & it was ok. I was a bit scared of it, but He told me it was ok. He works with us on our level. So glad you got feedback❤️ Your prayers were your work, and you will have many rewards for it!
I’m so very sorry for your incredible loss, but so grateful how God uses it for good ♥️ Sending loads of love xxx
I went thru the same with my older sister 😔from cancer , but like the verse says “whoever believes on Him “ I’m sure your daughter is praising God as we speak 😁🙏
Amen 🙏
I Love You Holy Spirit I Love You Jesus I Love You Father Jesus is the LORD I Love You God
Love you Pastor ❤
Praise be to God!!!
Lord forgive me for thinking you left me and give me grace to forgive myself
In Jesus sacrificial conquering name. Amen
Yes, sometimes it is difficult for us to forgive ourselves. But it is doable. SUBMIT all to JESUS.....everything will change. ⚘
God bless you Pastor Conlon!
Good night Pastor amen
A forgiving heart heals all .❤Thank you paster conlon my mind is at peace and my heart is happy ,all the praise and all the Glory belongs to our Lord jesus christ ,king of all kings and Master of the universe ..👑🙇❤😊
My son did horrific things to me. Thanks for this sermon, I really and truly need it to help me understand my part in it
Thank you Pastor Conlon....The LORD helped me to forgive one who abused me.....( it took time) now I pray for my abuser.....Only GOD can do this! ⚘
Thank you, Pastor Carter for this arrow straight to the heart. Bullseye! The HS spoke and I decided obedience was better than sacrifice. God helped me word an email for forgiveness and it was responded to quickly and gladly. God is so good.
I find it easy to forgive so that I can send old Satan running in fear. Love and forgiveness is the greatest secret weapon against Satan.
Yes! Leave them to God, it's a very powerful & freeing move & trust Gods faithfulness. Forgiving isn't an emotion, it's a decision, "l forgive anyone who has ever harmed me or wronged me". Derek Prince
Thank you Pastor Conlon
Amen!
Help me LORD JESUS
Thank you for sharing this Pastor ! I needed this message. 🙌
Thank you and GOD bless you pastor Carter for your message that many won't or can't preach about.. I'm ashamed of preachers who could discern helping me or those who preach watered-down gospel. But I feel today the healing has begun.some family members called cops to accuse me of anything imaginable and I was like what?? But cops said you you have done no wrong. They tried a restraining order that fell apart. Because I didn't do anything wrong. Praise God, but as I left I said you have wanted me gone so I'll honor and fake restraining order,but will never be part of this family again. I said even if you crawl on your hands and knees I'll never forgive you for this. A year went by and their crawling started some asked me to forgive them but I couldn't and told them to go to hell.they told me they lied and planned everything, but I hated them that I wanted to change my last name to never hear from them ever.but I felt healing as you spoke as a vessel for Christ. I did hear God's spirit telling me to worry only what Christ thinks of me and not the world. I will start to pray for my siblings and family and even though I may not be able to break bread with them ,but that I can know I have forgiveness towards them and feel clean in my heart. I need healing and need to be prepared for the rapture.Thank you God for helping me to start forgiveness towards those who prosecuted me. May you find my heart clean before you lord and with a new spirit within me. Keep me in your presence as you have always had........
I love you Ben. GOD LOVES YOU
You are the most honest and real, humble preacher I have ever heard preach and I have grown sooo much listening to you!!! God bless you mightily!!
That's what happened to me 2 years ago and I too felt like the holy spirit had left me
Dios los bendiga pastores y hermanos
Please Please pray for my kids, my wife and myself. My child is confused by the devil, as is my wife. I am to weak to be the voice they hear. I have failed my family and WE need the power of prayer.
Ephesians 4vs32;
Be kind & compassionate to 1 another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
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Yes LORD l ask to forgive me and l also forgive those who misunderstood me 🙏🙏❤
There is a reason God told us that "a Merry heart makes like a medicine". I use to be a bitter, angry person that could hold a grudge for years. I was also anxious, unwell and miserable. Ask God to help you forgive and to let it go. It is not worth your peace and joy and it only hurts you.
Please Jesus hurry back soon. I don’t know how much longer I can hold on. God please give me the strength to keep supporting myself and my two autistic children. My boys require a lot from me because they are special needs. Due to them having issues in school, I’m now homeschooling them. I’m a single mother. I’m overwhelmed. I lost my job at Forsyth hospital because I declined the vaccine. I have heart disease and I suffer from lupus that’s the major reason why I declined the vaccine. I’m waitressing and I’m grateful but I’m not making enough to make ends meet. Bills are piling up and I can barely afford groceries for my children. I feel like a failure. Every month is a struggle, and now that I’m homeschooling them my schedule is limited. I’m so overwhelmed and ashamed. But God’s gives me strength. I get harassed and bullied on this app for sharing my testimony and for asking for prayers but prayers are all I NEED. As christians we must have compassion towards one another. BUT! Even as I struggle! I keep faith in God. He is the God of possible! I HAVE FAITH HE WILL PROVIDE! He has this far.
My prayers are with you to see God provide for you and your children in ways you never dreamed of. He is faithful!!!
I am PRAISING GOD for your faith. You will be in my prayers each day.
My mom had a very difficult time raising 6 kids. Ultimately, she was unable to support us and tragically fell into alcohol addiction. My younger brothers and I were placed in foster care, and eventually granted enrollment in boarding school, so mom could have us on the weekends. We all were deprived of a stable home, and sadly, 3 of my brothers' lives were taken to be with God. She fell into a deep depression, never fully recovered.
I would travel for work and see families in grocery stores. I would imagine and see a glimpse of what my family could have had. I praise God for mothers, like you, who find comfort in Christ, and bless their children with His love. You will be in my constant prayers that the Lord strengthen you, encourage you, and never let you fall 🙏 ❤️
Psalms 55:22
Cast your burden on the Lord, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.
May God bless you and keep you. May his face shine upon you, and give you peace.
AMEN!!! God is in our favor to give us the strength to keep on going and keep believing in HIM THAT KEEP US IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND, my prayers goes to all the ones in need of Jesus ♥️ and specially to you childofGOD ,
GOD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU ♥️ keep on holding on and don’t let go the HAND OF YOUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST ♥️ HE WOULD NEVER FORSAKE YOU OR LEAVE YOU♥️ 🙏 AMEN
Angela, You speak of your strong faith all over the internet.....Then, why the desperation???? You said that you trust GOD , yet you are writing in panic.....You are all over the internet with the same plight. Have a nice day. ⚘
@@Shofargirl1 Yes I have read the same story over an over. Attention seeking? Very disturbing..
Please pray for Tyler and Stephanie for salvation Thank You
God bless your message 🙏 ❤️ I forgive myself! Yes thank you Lord for your life!!
AMEN AND AMEN. THANK YOU GOD👑
I love this man. Thankful for his ministry. Night after night I watch sermons from Carter Tim and Dave. TSC is God’s special sanctuary for me to hear him every night.
Thank you Lord for your forgiveness. ❤Amen❤
Thank you, for sharing this. I needed to hear it.
I heard that. Seriously experience a few things for three different people and it has been eating me up despite the fact that I have forgiven them. The devil is a liar and I prayed on it somewhere and finally received the peace that I was hoping for.
Thank you, Pastor Carter Conlon!
thanks to our Lord because of forgiving us sins. Praise our God forever and trust in our God. Amen.
Been following your teachings carter.Glory and honor to God you bring brother ,thank you for being in my life and for your messages .You've have helped lead me away from The Aryan brotherhood .Please keep the teaching coming .
Thank you Pastor.
This message is full of truth. Forgiveness goes beyond giving. This is exactly the work of Christ. While we were still sinners, he gave himself for our salvation.
However, can we give something to someone who does not ask for anything, it can sometimes be offensive. This is why forgiveness, while it exists, can never be welcomed. It is the work of the Spirit to make each of us a beggar for forgiveness - to welcome or offer it - in order to find Life.
Praise God🙏🏼✝️❤️🕊
Alleluia to the son of the living God. Amen.
God bless Carter Conlon and thank you for everything you do and Time Square Church. We have never met, but I personally want to thank you. You were the one that helped me better understand, God's calling for me. God has done a lot for me and it's his faithful Glorious Merciful Victories!
That still has me here on his Earth! God bless everyone and God does love us all. That's why he gives us choice, please trust in God. God has never let me down and I will praise his name. Till he takes the breath away and calls me home. 🙏🇺🇲❤️
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Thank you for this message. I have been praying and fasting asking God what is wrong with me. I need to forgive. I have a lot of people to forgive. There was years and years of abuse and a lot of family problems. Lord I forgive everyone who has hurt me. Please cleanse me from All unrighteousness and heal me. Thank you Jesus. Amen and Amen.
This message speaks to me directly. I am struggling to forgive especially when the person who offends me is a roommate who i see everyday. Thanks pastor Carter
Thank you, Pastor Conlon. I really needed to hear this message 🙏 ❤
AMEN🙏🔥👍🌻
Oh, this was spot on (for me).
Very moving! Thank you!🙏
Pastor, I am here in Jamaica, listening to your sermon on forgiving, it has touch me, I have done wrong to others, and is asking for forgiveness, do I must find it in my heart to forgive others that done me wrong.
One of my prayer will be to have the courage to share the
Word with others.
word with others
God never lead us to temptation,to bad path .It is satan that tries to tempt us .( Like he tried to tempt Jesus ) .We ask God not to let us fall into temptation.
SO TRUE HORRIFIC THINGS DONE TO OTHERS LORD PLS HELP US ALL AMEN TO BE TRUE TO OTHERS AMEN .CEMETERY THE GREATEST PLACE ON EARTH .BOOKS UN READ STORIES UN TOLD LORD HAVE MERCY ON US PRAISE AN THANKS
For our wives that's called compassion 😂💔 making a difference in the Bible says be not bitter towards them now we know why
I forgive but don’t think the Lord wants me to stay too close in relationships that are disrespectful and dishonor mom and grandma and publicly humiliate me
Please pray for me. I need to forgive my husband for lying and deceiving me, for unfaithfulness..for controlling my life for 35 years..he passed away from cancer in 2021 and I only found out his unfaithfulness during his fight with cancer. I had to take care of him so I had to push aside my horrific pain to do that and by the GRACE of God I did just that..but here I am 3 years later still dealing with the pain. It is so bad and I want to forgive..I claimed I had but I can't even think of him without feeling horrible anxiety! I love Jesus, I want to die to myself and live in Him 100% but I know this one thing is keeping me from being all that Jesus would have me be. My husband accepted Christ in his heart before he died and I am so grateful. This is on me
We are deeply sorry for your loss, Beverly. Going through this pain of betrayal is more than anyone can carry. Can one of our Prayer Team reach out to you?
@@TimesSquareChurch I had to think about it for a while..but maybe I need that. How do we go about it?
Please email us your contact info to online@tsc.nyc Someone from our team will reach out to you this week!
13:57 I hv same issue here. (fear of being vulnerable) then my cousin shared with me that “forgive & trust (again) are two different things”. deep inside i want to agree to this, but I wonder if this thought (I Forgive You doesn’t mean I Trust You Again) is biblical. Any Help / Sharing / Thought about this? Amen
Peter betrayed Jesus 3 times. Peter was so full of shame, he didn't turn back to Jesus. Jesus, amazingly enough, did not say, "Peter, I forgive you." Instead, Jesus asked Peter, "Do you love me?" Then he said to Peter, "Feed my lambs." Then Jesus twice said to Peter, "Feed my sheep."
Jesus restored Peter to his calling. By that Peter knew he was forgiven. Jesus restored Peter to a position of TRUST, despite his utter failure. That couldn't be a bigger proof of forgiveness.
See John 21:15ff.
@@wayfarer1101 Thanks. Its deep. Took me sometime to think and digest what you said. Basically I’ve been betrayal by own sibling I loved and trusted, (I’m 47) I don’t want to retaliate (its been 5+ years) and I chose to forgive, but certainly I want to keep a distance and I can’t see / treat him the same anymore. What I am currently struggling is : Am doing anything wrong here? I know Jesus’s teaching is to forgive 70 x 7 times. What I am doing isn’t unforgiving, but I don’t want to see him at all & want to keep distance (I am only afraid I will be hurt again. I THINK I have forgave him, I just Cannot Trust my brother Again. Can’t take that kind of betrayal anymore. (too hurtful) I am protecting myself by Not want to see him, NOT being unforgiving) I hope it make sense… thats why I quoted this video at about 13:57 because its somehow similar to the speaker..
Seeing him isn’t a big issue, but seeing someone of my own family and at the same time I need to close my heart seemed extremely awkward. Whats the point of seeing?
Prov 14:10 ' Only the person involved can know his ( or hers ) own bitterness or joy ( in life ) - no one else can really share it. ' LBV That can be the Fleshly excuse you can have to not forgive, however: Eph 4:32 ' Be ye ... forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. ' KJV
Christianity is union with Christ. This means that when we love people we are showing God's love - with his heart - instead of our love. It therefore becomes clear that we aren't offering people our forgiveness but God's. We have no absolute moral standards which bind anyone else - only God’s standards are binding over other people. This means that instead of offering people our forgiveness we should offer people God’s forgiveness - with his heart - and only on his terms.
There are as I just said two parts to offering people God’s forgiveness. The first is about sharing his heart - his eagerness to forgive. God is looking to forgive people in any circumstance where its even close to possible - as the father of the prodigal who doesn’t even wait for the prodigal to finish his speech is. This is what Matthew 11:25 is about - it’s about sharing God’s eagerness to forgive. (It’s about more than that but let me first complete another idea first and then return to the verse).
However that leads to the second part of offering people God’s forgiveness - we must offer God’s forgiveness to people but only on the terms under which he offers it. God doesn’t promise forgiveness to people who have wronged us if they are not repentant and we should not do so either. When we aren’t able to offer people God’s forgiveness we must remain eager that the situation change so that we might be able to do so. That’s what we see in Luke 17:3 - where we are told that we should forgive people only when they repent - and as many times as they repent. If the teaching of the bible was to forgive people whether or not they repent Luke 17:3 would not mention people repenting before we are to forgive them.
So then - returning to the Matthew verse - when Matthew 11:25 calls us to forgive others we should not interpret that verse in a manner which contradicts Luke 17:3 - we should be forgiving people only when faith leads them to be repentant - not when they remain unrepentant.
So there is a sense in which forgiving people is in two parts - vertical - we align ourselves with God’s eagerness to forgive - and horizontal - we forgive people only when they repent for their wrongdoing. This being consistent with Acts 3:19 which clearly states that our being repentant is a prerequisite for our being forgiven. If things were not this way we would be giving the impression to people that they were right with God in having our forgiveness when they are not. We should at all times relate to people consistent with our being God's representatives - with his authority.
It may seem as if it’s only helpful to be quick to forgive - but this isn’t the case. In the case of those who have been committed in abusing others our eagerness to forgive cannot take precedence when it will endanger the safety of others - the act of forgiving an abuser in advance of their repentance is damaging to those who have been wounded by the abuser - not just damaging to the abuser (in his being given false assurance). It isn’t appropriate for someone in a church who has been abused by someone else in the church to be told by a person in their church “But haven’t you heard? The abuser said he was sorry for what he did. You must now forgive him”. That is absolutely wrong! Instead in order to have God’s forgiveness - and therefore people’s forgiveness - the abuser must demonstrate a period in which his behaviour is changed - and the abuser during that period should not have the opportunity to do harm to those he has already hurt. If someone's wrongdoing can be described as abuse it's not appropriate that trust be required from those who were abused - even if forgiveness is. The abuser may need to go through a restoration process at another church (organised by the first church) or if not - having gone through a restoration process at the first church - it will likely be necessary for them to attend another church. And of course if the abuser has acted in a way that is criminal they must also be made subject to the laws of the state - the state being instituted by God to punish people who do wrong (see Romans 13) - even if the state at other times behaves unjustly.
We make the same mistake with judging. We imagining that positive judgements are never harmful. We imagine that the bible condemns only the making of negative judgements about people. Not so - the bible condemns wrongly founded positive judgements too - each is sin (see John 7:24). For example when a board of church elders appoint a man who has a reputation as a great preacher - but who has question marks over him in respect of his relationships with women - to the position of senior pastor - they have made a wrong premature positive judgement about that person.
Offering forgiveness prematurely and making premature positive judgements about people are both potentially extremely damaging. As usual it comes down to behaving the way the bible says - not in the way we have been taught if it wasn’t biblical - or consistent with what we think the bible ought to say.
This makes allot of sense. I need to re-read it and study it.. But thank you! I'm dealing with forgiveness but there Actions have not changed.
Dios los bendiga pastores y hermanos