When you are asking someone to forgive you, it is incumbent that you try to remove any doubt or speculation about the genuineness of your confession and your request for forgiveness.
You do not want to make it harder for the offended person to forgive you. They are already struggling with what you did. Don’t add to that struggle by being casual or flippant about forgiveness.
If your sin has broken you, you should be willing to do anything to make it right. (See Psalm 51:1-19 and Luke 15:17-24.) One of the ways you can do this is by bringing a clear and unassailable case against yourself regarding what you did. https://lifeovercoffee.com/a-time-to-forgive-a-time-you-cant-forgive/
The shocking and inspiring story of Sophie Ottaway.
Watch the full interview here: https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-490-sophie-ottaway-engineered-at-birth-to-be-a-girl/
Focus on the Cause, not the Effect, so you can remove the cause and not be affected by the effect.
A local church’s worship value is not primarily about the music but the lifestyle because you never ask, “Are you worshiping?” The reason is that we worship all the time. God made us for worship—wired us for worship, you could say.
Worship is part of what it means to be image-bearers. Who could do otherwise? The better question is, “What or whom do we worship?” https://lifeovercoffee.com/three-characteristics-of-a-fantastic-local-church/
Whenever a person chooses sinful anger, he is, in effect, giving the other person control over him. It’s counterintuitive. In his anger, he is like a marionette, a puppet on a string.
Anger toward someone is the total submission of their thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors to the other person. It is not self-control, as governed by the Spirit of God, but someone out of control or under the control of another spirit. https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-110-help-for-the-angry-person/
