Pray A Prayer Of Release - All The Word for Today Daily Devotionals for 2024

‘[The] curse does not come to rest.'Proverbs 26:2 NIV

Author Stormie Omartian grew up with a mother who told her she was worthless. She locked Stormie in a closet because she couldn't ‘stand to see her daughter's face'! Stormie writes: ‘I was raised by a mentally ill motherandher behaviour left me with guilt, hopelessness, helplessness and deep emotional pain. By the time I was a young woman I was still locked in-only the boundaries were emotional not physical-a deep ever-present pain which expressed itself through self-destruction and paralysing fear. Years later [with help from a Christian counselor] I learned that unforgiveness as deeply rooted as minemust be unravelled one layer at a time. One day I felt led to pray, "Lord, give me a heart like Yours for my mother." Immediately, I had a vision of her as a beautiful, fun-loving, gifted woman with no resemblance to the person I knewI was seeing her the way God made her to be, not the way she'd become. What an amazing revelation! In an instant I put together the pieces of her past-her mother's tragic deaththe suicide of her beloved uncle and foster father, her feelings of abandonment, guilt, bitterness and unforgivenessTouching the heart of God brought such forgiveness that when she diedI had no bad feelings. In fact, the more I forgave her the more God brought to mind good memoriesPeople are often the way they are because of how life shaped them, and only God knows their history. To enjoy everything God has for you, pray a prayer of release and let go of the past.' Only then can you move on.

Soul Food Reading: Lev 15-17 Mt 6:1-8 Ps 46 Prov 1:32-33