Coffee Talk with Linda Davis

Forgiveness is not minimizing the hurts in your life, it is REFUSING to hold on to them anymore. What we've been through in our lives matters. Forgiveness is not minimizing your hurt, it is not erasing your experience, it is not exposing yourself again to the same situation. Forgiveness is not an option. We must bring our hearts through the process of forgiveness. Forgiveness is healing, it is necessary for us, it does affect every relationship in our lives, those that currently exist and those that are to come. Unforgiveness for past hurts can handicap you in your future possibilities. Sometimes we make forgiveness about the other person. Do they deserve it? Are they even sorry? Have they sought our forgiveness? NONE OF THAT MATTERS! Freedom comes in realizing that forgiveness is about releasing you, it's about making room in your heart for other things, for real relationship with other people, for a real relationship with God. Forgiving others starts a healing process in our ...

Over and over I keep hearing from the Lord “Those who have ears to hear let them hear! Those who have eyes to see let them see!” My goodness my goodness.  If we call ourselves believers we need to be able to hear what the Lord is saying in order to see things how we need to see them!  I beg you, do not let your hearts grow dull which in turn causes your ears to become hard of hearing and then your eyes to close. We cannot allow this to happen in our lives but it is most definitely a ploy of the enemy because he knows if we hear with our ears then we will most definitely be seeing also with our eyes what the Lord is saying and doing in this critical hour. When we can both hear and see in the spiritual we turn our hearts to the Lord and in response He heals us and in the overflow He heals our land! This is the promise Acts 28:27 speaks of. When we are in rebellious times to the things of the Lord, a rebellious house so to speak, as in Ezekiel’s day, ears that do not hear and ...