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overcomer… my son and beautiful daughter-in-law just had the sale of their house yanked. Here they are ready to move, two U-hauls packed and another house waiting for their down payment and signature and poof… it all walks away. Today I will be loading those 2 u-haul trucks back into their garage… 

So it makes me think of overcomer. 

 

I have 3 people in my life who are the overcomer you read about.

 

One was 13, raped by her brothers friend, pregnant, growing up already with a challenging learning disability. She is black, there was a lot of racism in her town, lots of judging and oh yea, her mom and dad were pastors. She is now an amazing woman of God, has an incredible ministry and has forgiven the man who raped her and even built a relationship with him.

 

Another friend who came from another country… it was one of those countries. He and his brother were run aways with his mother. A few years later their father found them and kidnapped them and took them back to that country. She did not see them for 13 years. He was beaten by his father and soon by his brother. He contracted polio and had numerous health problems. He was raped by a man who was a friend of the family… and even after his mother rescued him and brought him back to the states he became an alcoholic. 

He is now an amazing father, husband, business owner and Loves jesus like a mad man.

 

Finally, a young kid in my youth group years ago. Black, wrong side of Chicago, not much going for him. Dad died at an early age, gangs etc… he now is the CEO of a Billion dollar company.

 

 

They all practiced a life of catch and release

 

Ok more like

Confess, forgive and release but still the same premise.

 

Look guys as soon as you can get over that life is unfair and mean and hateful and evil and everyone gets a bad taste in their mouth… the faster you can realize that we live in a sinful world with a terrible satanic force that is out to ruin out lives. Just confess all the bad that has happened to you and don’t try to cover it up…

So bad things will happen. I caught a few bad things in my life. But the key is forgive.

You can’t forgive… yea thats why we ask God to help us. Its a process, but so worth it. 

EVERYONE of my friends had trouble forgiving at first, but they worked on it and even now thank God for the past because of how much it has taught them… they have had the experience of Gods grace to a mightier degree than most.

They also rely on the release. Once they forgive they release, yes it again is a process. I have had to give up offenses 2, 3 sometimes 649 times. But it is my way of saying ok God, You are bigger than this so you take it…

 

Now here is the amazing thing in my friends lives. They did not start to experience all of Gods goodness for them until they did this process. In fact my one friend said “it was like everything I tried was self sabotaged until I went through this process and once I did… the windows of heaven opened up. There was just no other way to explain it - her words not mine.