Sid Roth welcomes Brian Adams
Sid: Hello. Sid Roth here with Brian Adams. And Brian, I know most people when they’re offended they rehearse it over and over in their mind, and they can’t even help themselves. What are they doing as they’re rehearsing this?
Brian: What you’re doing is, is repetition, you are just repeating or I like to use the word rehearsing. What you’re doing is you’re building a stronghold. But it’s not a godly stronghold. And what God has required us to do is to pull every thought captive into the obedience of Christ Jesus. Meaning, He wants it to be according to the Word. Our thoughts become His thoughts. And what they do, Sid, is it’s almost because of a type of pride and someone saying, how dare someone do that to me. But you know what I’ve seen? I’ve seen that what we got to do is pull these thoughts captive, make the decision it is God’s will. Now all through the Bible this is what we hear. Jesus, when he said, “When you stand praying, if you have an audience with anybody forgive.” It will hinder your prayer life. It will keep you from hearing or receiving from God. He even says, when you bring in an offering if you know there’s somebody, not only you against them, but someone has something against you, stop and go to them. So we’re talking your prayer life, your financial life. Now we see when they tore the roof off the ceiling for a man to get into a meeting that was sold out, so to speak, they lowered him down there. He said, “Your sins be forgiven you.” Now all of the people that were there said, who does this guy think he is? Who’s Jesus. Only God can forgive sins. But what we learn here is the same spirit that heals is the same spirit that forgives. And if you cannot be forgiven, if you don’t forgive, then Sid, you can’t be healed. It becomes like a cellblock, which is what the devil wants.
Sid: Wait a second. We are emotional beings. And if I’m walking in the grocery store and I see someone in the next line that has talked against me, and I don’t like him too much, I’m gonna walk the other way.
Brian: Yes.
Sid: What do I do? Walk up to him?
Brian: Well I tell you what. John 10:10 says, “The thief comes to still, to kill, and to destroy.” What he’s actually done is stole that relationship from that fellow believer.
Sid: Right.
Brian: And so what I’m going to do is say I’m making a decision to forgive these people and I’m going to take this friendship back. I’m gonna go walk right up to him and say, “Hi, it’s so good to see you.”
Sid: Alright. But what if I do that and I still churn a little on the inside?
Brian: You probably will because I have many times, Sid.
Sid: Okay. I’m normal.
Brian: Yes, normal, yes you are. That’s a normal reaction. But just like you rehearse the negative, just like you rehearse being hurt, God wants you to rehearse forgiving. See, it might take numerous times. Rather, I always say, repetition is the mother of success. If at first you don’t succeed try, try again. I pray and say I make a conscious decision to forgive every person that’s ever hurt me. Now when I see him, Sid, if it comes right back up and that knot’s there, I say, devil you’re a liar. I made a decision to forgive them. You’re not coming back to still that. And when he tries to remind you of what happened in the past, just stir him up and remind him of his future, which isn’t too good
Sid: Brian, you teach and it’s so marvelous about forgiveness from the cross. Would you teach that.
Brian: Yes. Because just like we were talking just a second ago, we rehearse and we think about it. Someone does us wrong. We retreat to our cave almost like Elijah did when Jezebel said some words against him. Well what he need to do is we learn when Christ was actually on the cross, Sid, here’s what he did. While they pulled out his beard, they beat him at the whipping post. Now they’re mocking him. They’ve nailed his hands and his feet. All this is going on. They’re screaming. They’re rejecting him. The whole world that he come for was rejecting him. He didn’t wait until later, but here’s what he did. He said right while it’s happening, right while it’s there, he said, “Father, forgive them. They know not what they’re doing.” Now there’s a key right there, Sid. They know not what they’re doing. The humans become a puppet. The devil is the puppet master. That’s why Jesus said, “Forgive them. They don’t know what they’re doing.” And that makes it so much easier to make that decision to forgive that these people have been deceived. Because if they knew who he really was they would never do you wrong. You’re their eternal relative in the Kingdom of God.
Sid: Well not only that, if they do something to me, they’re doing something to Jesus.
Brian: Oh yes.
Sid: I mean, do you realize that when you do something negative to another person and that person knows the Messiah you’re doing something negative. But what about if something horrible happens, like someone has been raped by their father, how they can forgive him?
Brian: Well one of the things that the Spirit of God has spoken to me about, Sid, is He said, just take what that person has done and just picture them coming to Jesus and saying, “Jesus, I repent of my sins. Will you forgive me?” Now I know that if you go with a repented heart, he’s gonna forgive you. Now you say, well they haven’t repented. They haven’t asked me. Well here’s what happens. You need to, at this time, do it for the sake of Jesus. That he didn’t be at the whipping post in vane. You make this decision because you’re protecting yourself. It’s almost like once you have the armor on, part of the armor on is forgiveness. They said, “They will know we are believers by our love.” And part of the fruit of love is forgiveness. How are they ever gonna know that we’re for real, Sid?
Sid: Okay. You say that anyone can make a free will conscious decision to forgive and receive their healing.
Brian: Yes. That is true.
Sid: Lead people in a prayer right now for that.
Brian: Jesus, he laid down his life and he died for you. And this is what he wants you to do. He came and he taught Peter, he taught the disciples. He said, “I not only want to forgive you, but I want you to begin to network with Heaven. I want you to become a distributor of the power of forgiveness.” And we block things and we hide them in our unconscious. That’s why I called this prayer. I’m getting ready to ask you to pray the conscious decision for counting at a cost. Now please remember this right here. I am not saying by you praying this prayer that you are making a statement, they’re not guilty. What they did to you is despicable and it was wrong. I agree with you. But we’re going to step up into the supernatural realm, the God realm, becoming children of the most high God. He’s a forgiver and we should be, too. So I want to help you right now pray this prayer. Just repeat after me. I’m here to help you. I know you can’t do it by yourself. But with us, where two or more or gathered together, Sid’s right here, there Jesus is. Pray this prayer with me. Say, dear Heavenly Father, I make a conscious decision to forgive every person that’s ever hurt me, that’s ever done me wrong, that’s ever lied against me, that’s ever hurt one of my family members. God, if I feel you let me down, I even release and forgive you. I forgive myself for wrong decisions. I release the past and I let it go. I make a decision right now to receive forgiveness from having unforgiveness. I want to be walking close with you again, God. I receive restoration and I receive the power from Heaven that’s released when forgiveness is granted. Father, I thank you that you’re touching people, and every mental tormenting spirit, every physical pain and every problem must leave now, from fibromyalgia to bursitis and arthritis, mental stress, anxiety, all phobias and fears, your power is broken now in the name of Jesus. These people have now been restored back to the Father. I’m proud of you. It’s one of the greatest decisions since accepting Jesus that you’ve made.
Sid: And one of the things I have found is there has to be a little faith in this transaction.
Brian: Yes.
Sid: That means if you have a pain in your back get up and bend over. A pain in your neck, start moving your head like this. Pain your fingers, start moving your fingers like that. Pain your hip, stand up and jump. This is a moment of a release of the presence, the river of the healing, Anointing of God. I speak peace into your spirit, peace that passes human understanding that sickness cannot rear its ugly head in Jesus’ name.