I recently read a book called The Bait of Satan by John Bevere. In that book Bevere talks about one of the greatest things Satan uses to destroy Christians. He contends, and I think with reason, that lack of forgiveness, or holding offence is keeping far too many Christians from a proper walk with the Lord.
Here Jesus was talking about the power of prayer. Right after He talked about the power of prayer He mentioned that when we pray, we had better be certain that things are right between us and those who may have offended us. Jesus goes so far as to say that if we can’t forgive those who have offended us, how can we expect Him to forgive us our multitudinous offences against Him? Now our eternal security and forgiveness is secure, but our daily walk and fellowship with Him is affected by our lives.
If we can’t forgive others then we really are not acknowledging His forgiveness of our offences. It is the ultimate in cheek for us to go to Jesus in prayer, asking Him to work in our lives, taking His forgiveness for granted, when we can’t even forgive those who have offended us?
Let’s not fall pray to the bait of Satan. Before we pray again, lets be sure that offences are not keeping us from having our prayers head.
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