An unforgiving spirit can turn long time friends into long term foes.
Here are Four Steps Jesus gave His Disciples to help create a forgiving spirit:
Love your Enemies
Bless your Enemies
Pray (for) your Enemies
Give (to) your Enemies
Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to be My disciple, let him deny himself [disregard, and forget himself and his own interests] and take up his cross and follow Me conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying, also].
Matthew 16:24 AMPC
Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored. earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available
James 5:16 AMPC
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Philippians 4:9 KJV
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When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Psalm 8:3-4 KJV
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He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds [curing their pains and their sorrows]. [Ps. 34:18; Isa. 57:15; 61:1; Luke 4:18.]
Psalm 147:3 AMPC
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God doesn’t necessarily choose those who “look the part”; but rather those who “have the heart”.
“But God told Samuel, “Looks aren’t everything. Don’t be impressed with his looks and stature……Men and women look at the face; God looks into the heart.””
1 Samuel 16:7 MSG
It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, Because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: Great is thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV
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but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1 John 1:7 KJV
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