Prayer of Forgiveness

Have you been hurt? Has somebody, somewhere in your past, rejected you in such a way that you still
hurt when you think about it? Do you become critical of people in your past the minute their names are
mentioned? Did you leave home as a child or a college student with great relief that you were leaving,
swearing you would never return? Have you worked hard all your life not to become like your parents?
Are there people in your past upon whom you would enjoy taking revenge? Have you made a past-time
out of scheming about how you could get back at them?
Were you abused as a child? Did you suƯer through your parents’ divorce as a child? Were your parents
taken from you when you were very young? Have you lost a spouse, a child, or someone close to you and
you feel resentful about it? Were you forced by circumstances to pursue a diƯerent career from the one
you originally wanted?
Were you unable to attend the school of your choice because of financial reasons? Were you pushed out
of a job by a greedy or unscrupulous friend? Were you promised things by your employer that never came
about?
IF you answered YES to any of these questions, you may be on the brink of being SET FREE from a
bondage that you did not even know was keeping you a victim. You may be about to understand for the
first time why you act the way you do and why you cannot control your temper. You may be on the
verge of receiving God-given insight you need to restore your war-torn home.
You are the LOSER if you refuse to cancel the debt. The process to will be PAINFUL, but pain is
necessary for HEALING to take place. God will make you WHOLE if you are willing to give Him all the
pieces. Forgiveness is the act of setting someone free from an obligation to you that is the result of a
wrong done against you. Consider using this Prayer of Forgiveness:
Heavenly Father, I forgive _ totally… unconditionally… once and for all… no strings attached… just as you’ve forgiven me… for the things done which have brought me pain. I assign to full responsibility for his/her attitudes and actions what brought pain into my life. That’s
between You and him/her. I release him/her to You. I let him/her go. But I take responsibility for the
choices I’ve made and for my attitude and actions which may have been contrary to Your will. For that, I
gratefully receive Your forgiveness.
Therefore, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I release from all responsibility for the pain he/she
caused me no matter how badly I was hurt. Instead, I assume all the responsibility for choosing to take
oƯense.
Father God, I, therefore, drop every charge I have ever made against and I give up my right to every
charge him/her again for this oƯense.
I cancel every judgment I have ever made against him/her and I ask You, Lord, to take away the
consequences of those judgments.
And Heavenly Father, I forgive You for allowing all this to happen to me. And thank You for forgiving me for
any way I may have blamed You for this oƯense.
Lord, I forgive myself. I can be pretty hard on me. And I know that is not your desire. I am your child and
You love me very much. So I receive Your grace to forgive myself just like You have forgiven me… totally
and completely.
Father, just like I have forgiven __, thank you for forgiving me of my hurt, my bitterness, my anger and
my unforgiveness.
Holy Spirit, please come… right now… and heal my wounded spirit. Heal my thoughts… my emotions…
my memories… my attitude from all the damage and defilement caused by my oƯense.
REMEMBER: We can only love to the degree we feel loved. We can only forgive to the degree
we feel forgiven. When we refuse to forgive, who is the one who is being hurt?