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“… and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.” --Luke 17:4 The greatest definition of forgiveness I’ve ever heard is, “Giving up my right to hate you for hurting me.” And someone who personifies this quote was one of the great Christians of recent generations, Corrie ten Boom. Corrie, her father, and her sister were imprisoned at Ravensbruck concentration camp during the Nazi holocaust for hiding Jews. In prison, she suffered unthinkable atrocities, including the death of her family. Years later, Corrie began to travel and share the Word of God. And one day when she was speaking at a church in Munich, a man whom she recognized immediately approached her. He was one of the abusive guards at Ravensbruck. And he said, “Fräulein, isn’t it wonderful that Jesus forgives us just as you said tonight? I was a Nazi but I have come to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Fräulein, would you please forgive me?” And Corrie stood there briefly stunned, overcome by the pain of the past. But in her heart she prayed, “Lord, forgive me for my inability to forgive this man.” And then she extended a trembling hand and said, “Brother, I forgive you.” Corrie later said that in that moment she instantly felt the love of God in her life as never before. And she later wrote, “To forgive is to set a prisoner free, and to discover that you are the prisoner set free.” Are you a prisoner to your pain and suffering? Jesus will set you free just as he set Corrie ten Boom free to forgive. Let this be your day of liberty. ARE YOU A PRISONER TO YOUR PAIN AND SUFFERING? JESUS WILL SET YOU FREE! What Fills Your Speech? by Dr. Paul Chappell “Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” Joshua 1:7–8 The words that we use do not spring up out of thin air. The things we talk about reveal what we think, feel, and treasure. Jesus said, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh” (Luke 6:45). If we are going to be Christians whose lives are pleasing to the Lord, then our speech must reveal that our hearts and minds are filled with His Word. When our mouths are full of the latest fads or our own opinions, it reveals that there is an internal problem in our lives. D. L. Moody said, “One thing I have noticed in studying the Word of God, and that is, when a man is filled with the Spirit he deals largely with the Word of God, whereas the man who is filled with his own ideas refers rarely to the Word of God. He gets along without it, and you seldom see it mentioned in his discourses.” The Bible is not out of date or obsolete. It still is the truth of God, filled with the precepts and commandments we must follow. It must be held above all other forms of input in our thinking.   Today’s Growth Principle:  The greatest influence on our thoughts and our words should be the unchanging Word of God.