{"id":296475,"date":"2025-06-14T22:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/why-we-struggle-to-forgive-others\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T22:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:45:57","slug":"why-we-struggle-to-forgive-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/why-we-struggle-to-forgive-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Struggle to Forgive Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Are you ready for something that has blown my mind? This has absolutely transformed my understanding of the renewal of the mind, and I pray that it does the same for you!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">For years, I knew all the right scriptures about forgiveness, understood intellectually that I was supposed to forgive, and could even quote the verses about forgiveness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">But deep down, something was still missing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The breakthrough came when I truly grasped what it means to renew our minds completely. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Think of your mind like an apple. The peel represents that surface-level, intellectual understanding of forgiveness. The flesh represents the act of starting to live it out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe title=\"Why We Struggle to Forgive Others\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ztpkyubYd8A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\u00a0<\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">We need to go deeper, though, all the way to the core, to the seed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In Ephesians 4:23 NKJV, Paul urges us \u201c\u2026to be renewed in the spirit of your mind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The spirit of your mind, in the analogy, is the seed of the apple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">When we take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ, as 2 Corinthians 10:5 teaches us, we&#8217;re not just changing our surface thoughts. We&#8217;re allowing God to transform the very core, the seed, of how we think. Proverbs 23:7 reminds us that as we think in our hearts, so we are. This is why complete forgiveness requires complete renewal of our minds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Here&#8217;s what I discovered: when forgiveness reaches the seed level of our thinking, it produces beautiful fruit. Every seed bears fruit, either good fruit or bad fruit.\u00a0 When we have renewed our minds, the spirit of our minds, then the beautiful fruit of a completely renewed mind blooms!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A renewed mind brings freedom for ourselves, and it blesses those around us. When a renewed mind brings true forgiveness, we stop warring against flesh and blood and recognize our real enemy. We close the doors that give Satan access to our thoughts and emotions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">When our minds are truly renewed in the spirit, we can discern God&#8217;s good, pleasing, and perfect will. God promises this satisfying result in Romans 2:12, but it only comes after we resist the patterns of the world and let God transform our thinking. This allows us to share the fruitful result of renewing our minds at the seed level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">I encourage you to watch the entire episode, \u201cWhy We Struggle to Forgive Others,\u201d on The Alita Reynolds Show and explore this life-changing truth for yourself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Your freedom is worth fighting for! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">I&#8217;m wildly cheering you!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Alita<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.agent=\"plkajabi\";n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n                                                                      document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '1615217018782581');\nfbq('track', \"PageView\");<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenoffaith.com\/blog\/why-we-struggle-to-forgive-others\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready for something that has blown my mind? 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