I prayed last night, and then started to read my bible, and it hit me a while later, that I had not prayed for, nor truly forgave, or asked God to forgive and bring to them, a person who hurt me, (my ex)
I stopped and started to pray and struggled to even speak the words, I had to stop and start, and literally force the words out, I have never experienced literally having to fight to utter words.
Afterwards I felt immense relief as unknown tension just melted away.
Has anyone had a similar experience? or heard of this?
Yes, I’ve had moments like that too.
Sometimes it’s not that we don’t want to pray, it’s just that the feelings are still very real, and the words don’t come easily. It can feel like you’re going against something inside you.
What you described actually sounds like a meaningful step, even if it felt hard in the moment. The fact that it wasn’t easy might be part of why it mattered.
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Yes. That’s happened to me. I think it’s our strong emotions getting in the way of our words.
In my case, I was really angry. I could feel the anger rise like a flare inside my soul. Not there, then there. The man was a stranger to me and had insulted me big time.
We’re told to pray for those who persecute you, so by rote I started to pray and it was hard in the beginning because I didn’t mean a single word I said. I kept at it and by the end I was truly praying for him and all anger was gone.
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