Offense. Join Lady Renee Flowers of Transformation Community Church for this week’s Winning Women Wednesday, where she talks about “Offense”. We hope you’ll be blessed by this timely and inspirational message. Many blessings!
Offense: Have you ever been offended?
Offense is one of the most effective tools Satan uses in his campaign to hinder the people of God.
He uses offense: ~To keep the Kingdom of God from being its most effective ~To dismantle churches and divide believers
~To tear families apart ~To perpetuate emotional, mental, and even physical illness in people.
Proverbs 17:9 Those who conceal an offense seek love, but those who repeat it separate close friends.
Canceling an offense doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t remember it or that you forget it entirely.
It does mean you don’t bring it up and you don’t hold a grudge against your brother or sister.
It means you move past it and show the forgiveness God has shown you to those around you.
Hebrews 12:15 See to it that no one that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.
This grace, first shown to us by God for our sins, should be passed forward. We should be quick to forgive those who wrong us.
This root can be defined in many ways, but in summation, it is an offense. We cannot let others offend us to the point that we harbor bitterness against them in our hearts.
Don’t let offense take root in your lives. Be quick to forgive and be quick to ask others for forgiveness.
If we want to be overflowing with the Spirit, we can’t let offense be a motivating factor in our lives.