Home Improvement: I Forgive You

What if the biggest renovation your home needs isn’t in your walls but in your heart?
In this week’s message we were reminded that the foundation of every healthy home, every healed heart, and every strong Christian life begins with one powerful word: forgiveness.

Wake Up, O Sleeper
The message began with Ephesians 5:14: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
God is doing something new in our nation, in our church, and in our hearts. But if we are spiritually asleep, we risk missing the move of God. Just like Rip Van Winkle, who slept through a revolution, too many believers are sleeping through seasons of change and opportunity.
Wake up.
God is on the move.
It’s time to move with Him.

The Word We Need Now: Forgive
From public tragedy to private pain, the Spirit of God is calling His people to respond differently, to respond with forgiveness.
Forgiveness is not about feelings. It is obedience. It is a declaration that says, “Because I have been forgiven, I forgive.”

Forgiveness Is the Front Door
Everything in the Christian faith begins with forgiveness.
The cross is where forgiveness is both received and given.
You cannot truly experience one without the other.
Too many of us want the fruit of forgiveness, such as peace, blessing, and freedom, without doing the work of forgiving others. But forgiveness is not optional for followers of Jesus. It is a command.
You being forgiven was never meant to stop with you. It is meant to flow through you.

Forgive Yourself, Too
Some people cannot forgive others because they have not forgiven themselves.
Shame and guilt keep us locked in the past, unable to see the new thing God wants to do. The challenge was to receive grace, to forgive ourselves, and to stop holding ourselves hostage for mistakes that Jesus already paid for.
You are forgiven. You are free.
Now, let that same forgiveness flow through you.

Forgiveness Doesn’t Excuse the Offense
Forgiving someone does not mean what they did was right.
It means you are no longer carrying it. You are placing that person and that pain in God’s hands.
Your forgiveness might not change them, but it will change and free you.

The Call to Action
This week, take time to ask God:

1. Who do I need to forgive?
2. Who do I need to ask forgiveness from?
3. Have I truly received God’s forgiveness for myself?

It is time to wake up to grace.
It is time to rebuild your home from the inside out.
And it starts with I forgive you.

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