– Mary Southerland Prayer for Forgiveness of Sins I want my life to be a living illustration of Your unconditional love and unending forgiveness. Please give me the wisdom and strength to forgive those who have hurt me.

To think that He died for me rocks my world. I don’t understand how You can love me when I am so unworthy of the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross. Amen.įather, I praise You for the love and forgiveness You so freely offer. I am supposed to be a light, and I chose selfishness over showing them the hope that I have within me. I plan to go to them and to ask for forgiveness, but I also want to come to you and repent as well. God, it has come to my attention that I have hurt someone dearly. In Jesus’ Name, Amen. – Corrie Gerbatz Prayer for Forgiveness for Hurting Someone I pray You would cover these hurts in Your healing grace, and through Your strength, empower me to forgive others as wholly and completely as You first forgave me. Reveal to me any remaining burs of hurt where I have attempted to forgive apart from You. Prayer for Forgiveness and Healingĭear Lord, search my heart. Sanctification is not an easy process but I want to become more like you, Lord. Jesus, as I ask for forgiveness from you, I ask that you would cleanse me with hyssop and make me pure. – Lysa Terkeurst Prayer for Forgiveness and Cleansing Thank You that Jesus’ blood was enough to pay for my sin. Prayer for Forgiveness of Myselfįather God, I’m so thankful forgiveness isn’t something I have to earn or achieve. And please give me the clarity to those whom I may have unintentionally hurt as well. Please help the Holy Spirit to open their eyes to the hurt they have caused. Even though I have expressed how much they have hurt me, they seem to lack conviction at this moment. Strip my heart of anger and replace it with joy. Guard my heart when old emotions threaten to surface. Equip me with a supernatural ability to forgive those who have hurt me. Prayer for Forgiveness during Intense Angerĭear Lord, please forgive me for harboring anger. I know forgiveness does not necessarily mean I have to be best friends with them. I ask that you protect me when I am around this person. However, I do not feel safe being around this person. God, I ask that you grant me the ability to forgive someone who has hurt me. – Lauren Dungy Prayer for Forgiveness and Protection Help me to show that same forgiveness to others, so they can see You living in me. Thank You for sending Your Son to die on the cross to show us the true meaning of forgiveness. Heavenly Father, thank You for forgiving me and bringing me back into relationship with You. Prayer for Forgiveness When Someone Hurts You I ask for both clarity in my situation and the ability to forgive my friend as you have forgiven me for the lies in the past I have told.

I know that the devil often operates in half-truths, and it appears he has a foothold of my friend. – Meredith Houston Carr Prayer for Forgiveness of Liesįather of Truth, I have been hurt by a friend’s deceit. Help us forgive freely and let go of bitterness, and grant us the strength to trust Your way is best. We thank You for demonstrating such forgiveness by graciously extending it to us. Prayer for Forgiveness and Rebuking Resentmentĭear heavenly Father, oh how our hearts struggle to forgive wholly and fully. Give me the strength and power to extend that same mercy and grace to those in my life who have hurt me. – Mary Southerland I choose to turn from that sin and obey you.

Prayer for Live in Forgivenessįather, I come to You today, asking first for Your forgiveness for the sin in my life. Help me to return to the paths of righteousness, to turn away from my wrongdoing, and to become more like you every day.

I know that every time I choose sin over you, I revert to the ways of my old self before I knew you. – Suzanne Eller Prayer for Forgiveness from God Thank you for a new day, a new chapter, and a new beginning. Amen. Thank you for doing a healing work inside of me that I cannot do on my own. Today, I receive that gift of forgiveness You hold out to me. God, I have been trying to forgive myself, but I still carry shame. If you’re needing to ask God for forgiveness, we have some prayers below for that as well. As humans, we all fall short of the glory of God. You will also notice that below we have some prayers to ask for forgiveness. Perhaps these prayers you lift up can open their eyes to your hurting and to the lovingkindness of our Lord. Remember, Jesus tells us to pray for those who hurt us ( Matthew 5:44). But we hope these prayers below can help offer a template or a jumping-off point in your journey to forgiveness. God wants to hear the groanings of your heart and comfort you. The beautiful thing is there are no right words. In the midst of intense hurt, you may not know the right words to say.

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