If, after spending years in the prisons of unforgiveness, hatred, contempt, or anger, a person decides to embark on the journey of forgiveness, they automatically trigger a bomb, an explosive charge that will shatter the prisons of offense, resentment, and anger that had locked their heart in the past.

Yes, unforgiveness locks you in your past to keep you prisoner, it prevents you from moving forward and enjoying life, it constantly reminds you of the wrongs done to you, and it puts your life on hold. 10, 20, 30 years later, you are still focused on the pain you endured, still feeling the pain, the sorrow, the effects of anger, bitterness, lack of self-confidence, distrust towards people, even when they are kind and have nothing to do with your past: you are simply a prisoner of your past!

Even if it seems unbelievable, anyone who initiates the process of forgiveness, thus the law of forgiveness, will eventually break free from the prison of their past to soar like an eagle towards their future because they have accepted to follow a divine commandment. That’s why at “Impact Centre Chrétien”, we always tell those whose hearts are broken by life: “You are the product of your past, but you don’t have to remain a prisoner of it!“

The past doesn’t have to keep you captive. The failures, traumas, abuses, mistreatments you have endured don’t have to continue to haunt your life. There is a way out of these past wounds that pollute and destroy your relationships and your present health: that way is to apply or engage the law of forgiveness.

Beloved, I insist on this point previously addressed because the wounds, the traumas of the past experienced by a person introduce offense within them: it is the most dreadful poison used by Satan to destroy human beings and thwart their destiny. The only antidote, the only remedy to free oneself and move forward is to engage the law of forgiveness, which I will come back to. I urge you to assimilate this process well:

• Activating the law of forgiveness first involves asking God for forgiveness for not guarding your heart, for letting the poison of offense enter you.
• Activating the law of forgiveness means ceasing to blame individuals or events, pointing them out as scapegoats for the state of your wicked heart.
• Activating the law of forgiveness means taking responsibility for the evil treasures sown in you by the enemy and deciding to confess them or even to vomit them out before God.
• Activating the law of forgiveness involves asking, like Jesus, forgiveness from God for the individuals who directly offended you or the individuals who are the cause of the events through which offense entered you.

When you ask God for forgiveness for the individuals or events through which offense entered you, you do not do it out of pity for these individuals; you do it so that the poison of offense that has entered your heart exits you and does not destroy you from within since the first victim of offense is always yourself!

Millions of witnesses have sincerely and perseveringly applied it and attested to experiencing the same reality: the evil inner voices that haunted them, the anxieties, the fears, the dysfunctional behaviors they had, all miraculously disappeared from the moment they activated the therapy of forgiveness.

In the context of pastoral care, we encounter so many witnesses of this truth who, yesterday, suffered traumas, physical, verbal, and sexual abuses, but who today are freed from the internal oppressions they felt. They are now flourishing, without any scars or depressive or suicidal thoughts. They cannot explain how such a miracle could occur, but they all make the same observation: what tormented them from within has disappeared!

So, what happened in the invisible realm? Their implementation of the law of forgiveness triggered an explosive charge that shook and shattered the prisons of hatred, anger, resentment, envy, murder. This same power dispersed, drove away the jailers, meaning the evil spirits that besieged these souls and disfigured their character for so many years.

Do you realize? Fortresses were overturned, evil spirits that besieged hearts eventually fled, freeing individuals, all thanks to the implementation of a single divine law: the law of forgiveness!

Do you see how powerful the Word of God is when put into practice? Do you now understand better why the devil uses fortresses to dissuade you from putting God’s commandments into practice? But he will now fail miserably in your life in the name of Jesus!

So, you understand: what makes the difference is walking according to God’s commandments, principles revealed in the Scriptures. Whoever discovers and applies divine principles, commandments, activates or triggers the power of God, the explosive charge contained in this Word. So, I pray that this power be activated in your life now and forevermore in the name of Jesus, amen.

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This text is an excerpt from the book “GETTING OUT OF INNER PRISONS” written by Apostle Yvan CASTANOU.

We invite you to read the following article “The hardest part is not getting out of prison, but getting the prison out of you.“

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