This is very simple but the Holy Spirit showed me this this morning and I want to share it – I feel Him prompting me to share it…
I love my wife…
I have been growing in love with my wife…
I’m not perfect and I’m not pretending to be perfect…
But I am growing in love with my wife…
What He showed me was this – perfect Forgiveness will set my wife free…
She will be as free as the Lord wants her to be – but the soil of perfect Forgiveness experienced through me – I also saw this prophetically for further down the track (but I won’t go into that here) – was going to release her – I’ve been experiencing that in the last day or so…
The deeper I realise that the Lord has forgiven me and is forgiving me – not counting my trespasses against me – the deeper I fall in love with Him – He has shown me that He has and always will forgive me completely and not treat me as my sins deserve…
As I remain in His Love – which is how He has described it to me, i.e. remaining in the perfect Love of God or remaining in my belief of His perfect forgiveness of me – then He enables me to love my wife in the same way…
I had an experience this morning where I saw in the future that if my wife did something terrible – not that I’m wanting her to – that she would be doing this because she was scared of God’s punishment – like scared that He’d turn against her if she “stuffed up” – and that my support of her would be the difference for her to practically see the Lord’s forgiveness through me…
I saw this and I knew it would work…
We are to model what we know…
I’ve experienced this from the Lord…
The only way I can “stuff it up” is not to forgive others…
That’s it…
He’s told me this…
If I remain in His love this means that I forgive others “as He has forgiven me”…
No double standard here…
As He has forgiven me – which is completely…
I will do this…
Because I believe in His Love…
It is painful but it is also painful for Him when I sin against Him…
It is more blessed to give than to receive and the greatest thing that you can give is acceptance and forgiveness – it breaks all bonds…
If the Lord isn’t going to enable your spouse to receive His forgiveness through you – He will remove them from you – un-forgiveness cannot stand in the presence of forgiveness – or He will remove you from them – either way…
I saw that my forgiveness would work – it would set my wife – in the future – free from her uncertainty and set her at rest – never needing to “stuff up” again as she would know the Lord’s unconditional acceptance of her…
The sin leading to death is the sin of not bearing with one another and forgiving whatever grievances we may have against one another – biting and devouring one another – the world will know we are believers in the Lord because of our love for one another – grow in grace – means that we grow in grace towards one another and that in this we grow up into Him who is the Head…
Jesus will never ask us to do anything which He has not done Himself…
Think about that…
It will set you free…
Love,
Andrew
a house of prayer for the nations 
This is so true, forgiveness is the basis of freedom, also for freedom from our previous sin problems…
When we know the Lord’s forgiveness of us and then practice this by forgiving those closest to us in whatever sphere of life, our spouses, our friends, our parental figures, our authority figures, etc, when we forgive others it protects us from being handed over to the tormentors (Matt 18:34) and having to relive our slavery to sin…
When we are handed over to the tormentors however this is the Lord’s way of bringing us back to reality that we haven’t got it together either and our judgment of whoever in not forgiving them is invalid, it’s a reminder that we’re no better, no different – we’re just the same as them – and our protection is the decision to forgive everyone and allow the Lord to love them through us – as this is what the Lord does…
Just been through this recently myself (again), and on inquiring of the Lord this was the explanation He gave me…
We are handed back over to our previous sins when we choose not to forgive others, this occurs to remind us of the importance of forgiveness and that only the Lord can enable any of us who know Him to forgive and it is His Grace which brings us back (time after time)…
Thank You Jesus…
Love,
Andrew