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Friday night with gospel music to uplift your spirit. Today's inspirational words will be forgiving one another and how unforgiveness can keep you from having peace in your life and your walk with Christ. Gospel music coming from Luther Barnes, Canton Spirituals, Fred Hammond, Commissioned. Inspirational words from the Bible read by your host "Star". I pray that this broadcast will be a blessing to all who listens. May God bless you all!

Unforgiveness

By Starlette Edwards

Forgiving someone is a difficult thing to do when you have been hurt either by someone you love or someone you don't know or love. There have been many times in my life that I have been hurt. Hurt by a family member, friend, co-worker, preacher and even a stranger. How can we get past this and get a heart to forgive those who have caused us so much pain, humiliation and bitterness? How is being unforgiving affecting your health and your entire being? Is it causing you depression, negative outlook on life, uncontrollable thoughts and actions, is it causing your body to become sicker and sicker as each day passes. As you read this article, ponder on an experience or experiences in your life that have caused you pain and you can't place it in your heart to forgive that person or persons. Do you want to let go and live with a forgiving spirit. No one can do this but you. What will happen if you die today with that unforgiving spirit, how much of your life are you truly enjoying because you won't let it go, how many days of depression, because you won't let it go, how many nights of sleeplessness, because you won't let it go, how many days full of angry tears that have erased so many blessed years, because you won't let it go, how many more minutes of sadness, grief and resentment will you allow to control your life;control rather your life will be filled with joy or filled with everlasting pain. Now think on these things…. to let it go! Give yourself the life you deserve that is filled with love and peace.

Helpful links:

http://krisbelfils.com/krisbelfils/Letting_Go_of_our_Past.html

http://www.yourlifesource.com/forgive.htm

Lord I thank you for life tonight!

Lord, I pray that this broadcast will be a blessing to all who listen. I really believe that you are leading me to become that self denied person. I truly believe that you are bringing me to a place where I  will be able to humble myself to fast and pray and seek your face with all my heart. I have been led day by day for the  past week or so, to begin to sacrifice some things that I enjoy doing to get in your will. Lord your will is going to be done and I might as well choose to kill the deeds of my flesh to get it right with you. I know that it's going to take much sacrifice and I am willing. How am I ever going to know you and have you manifested in me, if I don't sacrifice my life to get closer to him!

How To Deny Self, Take up his cross and follow him
Article comes from
http://www.gospelway.com/topics/christian_life/deny_self-carry_cross.php

Deny self

Denying self requires us to give up anything that we would want or seek that would hinder our doing the will of God. This does not mean that, if we want something, it is necessarily wrong. It means we must take our wants and desires down from the throne and place Jesus and His will as the governing power in our lives.

There is room in each life for only one master (Matt. 6:19-24). If God is to rule in our lives, then our will must be made subservient to His. We must be willing to give up anything in life in order to please God. Rom. 12:1,2; Matt. 6:33; Luke 14:25-33; 2 Cor. 5:14,15.

Take up your cross and follow Jesus-

Many think this means bearing burdens and suffering hardships for the Lord. Surely such hardships will at times be required, but there is a fuller meaning if we consider the context.

(1) What is a cross for? It was not just a burden to be borne. Far more than that, it was an instrument of death and total sacrifice. (2) Jesus said take up our cross and follow Him. He bore a cross and we must bear our cross and follow Him. But where was He going with His cross? He had just said He was going to die. (3) In the next verse Jesus said we must give our lives for Him. (4) Then He asked what good our lives would be to us, if we are unacceptable at the judgment.

Hence, "taking up your cross" refers to giving your whole life to God, as Jesus was about to give His life for us. This involves bearing burdens, but it is deeper than that. It is a total dedication of life. Our whole life is given to His service in anything He says. This will lead us to willingly deny self. Following Him then requires us to live as He lived His life (I Pet. 2:21; Matt. 10:34,35; I Cor. 11:1).

Luke adds "take up your cross daily" (Luke 9:23). There is a sense in which Christians must give their lives to God every day. This is not necessarily a physical death as Jesus died for us (though such might be required), but a daily total sacrifice of self to do the will of Jesus. Whatever He wants with my life is what must be done with it. What I want no longer matters, but I give myself for Him, just as He gave Himself for us despite the fact His human nature did not want to have to do it. Cf. Rom. 12:1,2; Gal. 2:20; I John 3:16-18; Matt. 6:19-33; Gal. 5:24; Rom. 6:6-23; 2 Tim. 2:11; 2 Cor. 4:11; Ecc. 12:13.

The determination to give our lives to God's service is called "repentance." In repenting we determine to turn away from our own will and live our lives to please God. We cannot be saved without this, and that is why repentance is so important in salvation. It also explains why so many people are not truly Jesus' disciples (whether or not they may claim to be His disciples): because they are not willing to make this total sacrifice.

Lose your life for Jesus

The next verse then helps us understand Jesus' point and strengthens the application. If a person holds his life so dear to himself that he wants to use it to please himself, do his own will, and accomplish his own purposes, rather than denying self and serving God, that person will in the end lose his life eternally. But anyone who loses his life for Jesus' sake - gives it in service and sacrifice to God by denying himself, as described above - such a man will save his life by gaining eternal life.

There can be no greater or clearer teaching anywhere of the meaning of being a disciple. This is how our Master lived, so this is how His disciples must live. We must live lives of complete and total submission to the will of God.

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Tune in to our next Friday night gospel hour! May God bless you all! Hosted every Friday night at 10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Friday night with gospel music to uplift your spirit. Today's featured music will be Caravans with Albertina Walker, William Brothers, Dottie People's and Luther Barnes. Inspirational words from the Bible read by your host "Star". I pray that this broadcast will be a blessing to all who listens. May God bless you all!

Friday night with gospel music to uplift your spirit. Today's featured music will be Caravans with Albertina Walker, William Brothers, Dottie People's and Luther Barnes. Inspirational words from the Bible read by your host "Star". I pray that this broadcast will be a blessing to all who listens. May God bless you all!

What a blessed day it is .. mainly because God gave me another chance to get it right with him. I am alive to testify that God is a good God, I am alive to Thank him for all he has done for me.

Tune it to my Friday Night Gospel Hour for gospel songs to uplift your spirit and also hear inspirational words of God to encourage your walk in Christ.

Songs that will be heard are:

God will heal the land Rev. FC Barnes
The Lord Will Fix It - Rev. FC Barnes
Another Chance- Lee Williams

And a host of other gospel artists. Hope that you will join me.
 May God bless you all!

Remember to always put God first in all that you do!

Star