A Prayer for Forgiving Yourself
For laying down old guilt — receiving the forgiveness God has already given.
Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is ourselves. This prayer is for laying down old guilt God has long since carried away — and finally accepting his verdict over our own.
The prayer
Father, I have confessed this, and you have forgiven it — but I keep picking it back up. I punish myself with a sentence you have already lifted.
You say there is now no condemnation for those in Christ. Help me believe your verdict over my own. Who am I to keep condemning what you have pardoned?
You have removed my sin as far as the east is from the west and remember it no more. Give me the grace to stop remembering it against myself.
Let me receive the forgiveness that cost you so much — freely, fully, today. Lift the weight, and let me walk out from under it at last. Amen.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus — if God has closed the case, you are allowed to stop reopening it.
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