{"id":2850,"date":"2016-04-15T15:20:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2016-04-15T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T19:20:11","slug":"a-prayer-to-the-god-who-doesnt-hold-grudges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2016\/04\/a-prayer-to-the-god-who-doesnt-hold-grudges.html","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer to the God Who Doesn\u2019t Hold Grudges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">The Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him. (2 Chronicles 30:9)<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. (Acts 3:19)<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is so easy to create a god in our own image \u2013 one who is like us:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>quick to be angry, slow to forgive. On the contrary, our God\u00a0is who He says He is:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>gracious, compassionate, faithful\u00a0to forgive, and willing to offer help and refreshment\u00a0when we don\u2019t deserve it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Need some grace today? Our God is overflowing with it. Yet He will always fight for your highest possible good! He won\u2019t mess around with pandering to you. He loves you too much for that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Loving Father,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Thank you for your power to forgive. Thank you even more that you promise to forget my sin as well. Only an Almighty God can choose to forget as well as forgive. I receive your grace and forgiveness, and I put you on the throne of my life \u2013 You, the God who knows no grudges, the God who hasn\u2019t a chip on his shoulder, You, the God who is not angry with me. Thank you,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>gracious Father. I receive your unending, never-failing love today.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">In Jesus\u2019 Name, Amen<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him. (2 Chronicles 30:9) Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. 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