In this compelling episode of Victorious Faith, Cherri Campbell invites listeners to explore the transformative power of forgiveness. Highlighting the critical difference between emotions and choices, Cherri shares how forgiveness is a deliberate act of faith that can heal heartaches as effectively as physical wounds. Through faith, one can call things that are not as though they were, applying this to the pain of the heart and manifesting a profound internal healing.
Good morning. Praise the Lord. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherri Campbell. This morning I’m going to continue sharing with you the message that I’ve been sharing with you for the last several broadcasts that I preached in one of our Victorious Faith services called What Love Does. So join me now in our live service for part six of What Love Does. Forgiveness is a choice. Forgiveness is a decision. Forgiveness is not a feeling or an emotion. Now, people, I know some people have been so terribly hurt. Some people have been raped, molested. I mean, violent things. People have had everything stolen from them. People have had terrible, huge, bad things done to them. And yet… Did God say, well, that’s okay. I understand if you don’t forgive. The terrible things have to be forgiven just as much as the petty little stuff has to be forgiven. It’s not easy unless you learn that it’s by faith. It’s a choice. It’s a decision. It’s not a feeling what the world tries to do and what counseling sessions do. They try to work you through your feelings. How do you feel? Let it all out. No, that’s the devil’s tool. You yield to your feelings. You’ve got to overlook your feelings. And this is something you do by faith. And this is, I mean, just like you believe you receive your healed in the body. I mean, your back hurts. You don’t go around and say, oh, I feel so much pain. I’m so hurt. Well, then you’re going to stay in pain. You call your body healed, right? Well, it’s the same with the pain of the heart. An offense is a pain of the heart. But you call it forgiven even when you don’t feel it. See, that’s what faith does. Faith calls things that are not. as though they were. And so just like you call a back that’s needing healing. I call my back healed in Jesus name. I’m not moved by what I feel. I call it healed. I’m healed. I’m healed. I’m healed in Jesus name. Do the same with your heart, your heart pain, the heartache, the offenses, the wounds that you have received. It’s not based on how you feel. The hurt can still be there. Just like in your body physically, it can still be there. That’s when you’ve got to call it healed. It’s when the pain is there, not after it’s gone. You don’t need to use faith after it’s gone because it’s already gone. Faith is for when it’s not gone. That’s when you use faith, when you’ve still got the problem. And so, you know, uh, psychologists will try to work you through your feelings and how do you feel about it? Hey, as long as you call yourself hurting, you’re going to be hurting. As long as you talk, talk about the pain, you’re going to be in pain. You’ve got to get out of the feeling mode into, I call this forgiven. I call it forgiven. It doesn’t matter how I feel. Yes, I’m hurt. I’m angry. I’m livid with anger, whatever. But I am not moved by how I feel because I am calling those things that are not as though they were. And this is so important. I want to jump back to what I just said. The Holy Spirit said is that faith is not used after you’ve already got what you need. Faith is used when you don’t have it and you’re calling it. So when you don’t have the healing is when you call it healed. When you don’t have the money is when you call. and say you have the money and decree it. When you don’t have the job is when you decree, you have the job. And when you’re hurting in your heart is when you say and decree, I have forgiven them. It’s a faith act. It’s a choice. It’s a decision. And you’re doing it to honor God. Forgiving honors God because God forgave us and saying, Lord, as, and, and you see, once you do that, just relate to, Heart healing to body healing. When you understand the principle of faith. For healing in your body. And you call that. Back healed. You call that knee. Shoulder. Shoulder. Healed. I’m healed. I’m healed. Ouch. I call it healed. In Jesus name. I call it healed. Whether it takes hours. Days. Weeks. Or months. I call it healed. Until. I can say. Woo. I am healed. Not a pain in my body. Doing the same. Thing with the heart. Healing. The forgiveness. Every time. That. Heartache. Or anger or bitterness that you have felt over that wrong might still be there. Consider it the same as the pain in your back or your knee or your shoulder. It’s still there. But that’s when I say I have forgiven them. I have forgiven them. I have forgiven them in Jesus name. I release them and I forgive them because as you take your stand. in faith, I’m standing on this, I’m in faith, I forgive them, then your faith of forgiveness is working a healing and it will produce a healing in your heart. Whether it comes in days or weeks or months, it will come if you stand in faith. And there will be a day down the road when the sun will shine and you can look at that person and have no heart pain, no anger, no bitterness anymore. It’s gone. But you don’t wait to feel it before you say you forgive because you’ll never, you’ll never feel like forgiving. It won’t happen. You do it the other way around. You say it and then it works in you. The process of healing and forgiveness in your heart. Then there will be the day that there will be the feelings that the feelings of pain will be gone. And you’ll be able to look at that person and say, there’s no more pain there. I’m not angry anymore. I’m not hurt anymore. It’s gone. It will happen because it’s the way faith works. Same way as receiving healing in your body. So forgiveness is a choice. Forgiveness is a decision. It is not a feeling or an emotion, and it is by faith. You decide to forgive. It is by faith. You will not feel like it, but you release it to God. You give it to God and you stand in faith to forgive that person. You can apply the blood of Jesus also over your heart and over that person. The blood that washes away your sins, you apply it to wash away their sins. You wash your own heart and you see the blood of Jesus cleansing you and cleansing away their sin against you. So you can use the blood because remember about condemnation, blood, the blood of Jesus washes us and cleanses us from condemnation. It also cleanses us of sin, which brings the condemnation. So it’s the cleansing of the blood, which is forgiveness. So you can use it when you forgive others, use the blood, apply the blood over your heart and over their sin. In order to forgive others, when you forgive others, you must release them before you can be released. Because remember the trap, if you let go of the bait, then you will be free of the trap. But as long as you hold, I remember the story of, um, I don’t know where I heard it, but they tried to capture a monkey with a banana in a jar. And the monkey stuck his hand in the jar, grabbed the banana, and then couldn’t get his hand out. He was caught. And as long as he held the banana, he couldn’t get loose. And if you would just let it go, release it, you can pull your hand out and you’re free. We’ll let go of the bait. You will be free. But if you hold on to that offense, you are not free. You are in bondage. Unforgiveness is often the cause of sickness and disease because The same anointing that forgives also heals. The healing anointing is the forgiving anointing. Jesus would go to people who are crippled and say, your sins are forgiven. Get up and walk. Remember that your sins are forgiven. Get up and walk. Why didn’t he say you’re healed? Get up and walk because it’s the same anointing. It’s mercy. Mercy forgives, but Mercy heals. And the same anointing that forgives will also heal. So he said, your sins are forgiven. Get up and walk. It’s the same anointing. Forgiveness and healing flow in the same anointing of mercy. And therefore it is the mercy of God that forgives. It is the mercy of God that heals. So therefore, if you are not flowing in mercy to forgive, you are not receiving mercy to be healed. So the block of mercy in your life, remember we’re talking about the mercy in your mercy bank, sowing mercy so you can receive mercy. Well, it applies to healing. You sow mercy so that you can receive healing. You sow forgiveness so you can be healed. because it’s the same anointing. And if you’re not merciful to forgive, you cannot receive that same mercy that also brings healing in your own body. And that’s why unforgiveness is often the cause of sickness and disease. And I have heard numerous, countless testimonies of people that when they got healed, they got healed because of forgiving somebody they’d held offense against. And they held offense against them. And it can cause arthritis. It can cause heart trouble. It can cause ulcers. All kinds. I mean, medical science has proven it. All kinds of anger, bitterness, offense, and resentment cause disease. There are diseases that people have caused by offenses. And if they would let it go, they could be healed. And so unforgiveness causes sickness and disease. If you give mercy and forgive, you can receive mercy to be healed. Unforgiveness will also stop your prayers from being answered. Look at Mark 11, 24 and 25. Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe you have received it and it will be yours. There’s believing you receive verse 25. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him so that your father in heaven may forgive you your sins. You could also say so that your prayers will not be hindered. So your faith will not be hindered. So forgiveness goes hand in hand with believing you receive. So. Unforgiveness will stop faith, which will stop prayers from being answered. So if you want your prayers answered, forgive when you stand praying, forgive everybody. Lord, I believe I receive a new car. I believe I receive a new job. And as I stand praying, I forgive this one. I forgive this one. I forgive everybody who’s ever wronged me. If we would just practice that, we claim our faith, claim job, finances, whatever we’re believing for. And while I’m standing here praying, I forgive this one, this one, this one. Oh, yeah, they did me wrong last week. I forgive them. I forgive them. And don’t finish your prayer and your faith confession until you have forgiven everybody. So let them go hand in hand. That’s the way Jesus taught it. So your faith will not work with unforgiveness in your heart. Unforgiveness will also stop the blessings and prosperity of God from coming into your life because it hinders the flow of God’s mercy toward you. Amen. So unforgiveness only hurts you. Unforgiveness only hurts you. So be careful and quick to forgive, quick to forgive so that you can be quick to receive forgiveness and quick to receive healing. Hallelujah. Amen. What you just heard was part six of a message that I preached in one of our victorious faith services called What Love Does. And we will continue this message again tomorrow. So join me again tomorrow. And remember, God loves you. You’re blessed and highly favored by the Lord.
