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In Matthew 17,  forgiveness  is  necessary  for everyone. When Peter needed to pay back his  debt,  he searched for others that owed him money. Peter didn’t have mercy for the  debtor ;  Jesus told Peter and us, we aren’t justified in accusing.  Specifically,  7x70 times, do you have to forgive someone.  However,  this was only a figurative language for a really long time, some Jews took this  literal .   When someone does you wrong,  you  need to leave their actions alone and forgive them.  Often,  we become obsess with how we were treated,  losing our precious time on a negative mindset. Our debt to Jesus is so  immense  that we cannot repay him. To show him our grace, we show mercy to those around us.   I get caught up on others that disrespect me. I want to take action for revenge or shut them out of my life completely.  Literally  the other night I had a...

A  woman  was considered unclean; she had been bleeding on her period.  Unfortunately,  her bleeding has been twelve years; resulting to her being excluded from the community. She had faith that Jesus could heal her as she fought her way through a crowd. Although touching someone while on her period would make that person also unclean; she  proceeds  to touch a piece of Jesus’s cloak.    The woman was healed;  however,  Jesus hadn’t given her a spiritual blessing. He asked the crowd ‘who had touched him’, giving the woman agency to come clean. He performed a whole  miracle , with  physical  and  spiritual .   Jesus gives two - way  mir a cles . Though we tend to focus base on phy s ical healing; Jesus also wants to give us a spiritual blessing as well.  We want blessings, but we have  to  willing to  receive the whole blessing. 

Appling the doctrine given to us comes when we interpret  something general to our specific needs. We can read the scriptures but if we do not interpret  ourselves then the doctrine doesn’t mean anything. Even  retaining  the knowledge of doctrine comes easier when put into our own words.   Matthew 6:5-8 says,  “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in  full/.   But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward  you/.   And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words/.   Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”  Interpreting  what w...