Unforgiveness is classified in medical books as a disease. According to Dr. Steven Standiford, chief of surgery at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, refusing to forgive makes people sick and keeps them that way. With that in mind, forgiveness therapy is now being used to help treat diseases, such as cancer.
“It’s important to treat emotional wounds or disorders because they really can hinder someone’s reactions to the treatments, even someone’s willingness to pursue treatment,” Standiford explained.
Of all cancer patients, 61 percent have forgiveness issues, and of those, more than half are severe, according to research by Dr. Michael Barry, a pastor and the author of the book, The Forgiveness Project.
“Harboring these negative emotions, this anger and hatred, creates a state of chronic anxiety,” he said.
“Chronic anxiety very predictably produces excess adrenaline and cortisol, which deplete the production of natural killer cells, which is your body’s foot soldier in the fight against cancer,” he explained. “When there is a breakdown of your immune system, the normal cells mutate into cancer cells which makes them spread fast.”
Barry said the first step in learning to forgive is to realize how much we have been forgiven by God. “When a person forgives from the heart which is the gold standard we see in Matthew 18, forgiveness from the heart we find that they are able to find a sense of peacefulness. Quite often our patients refer to that as a feeling of lightness,” he said. Barry said most people don’t realize what a burden anger and hatred were until they let them go.
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In Matt 18:21-35 Jesus shares a parable about a man who was forgiven a large debt to a king but then he turned around and refused to forgive a man who owed him a very little and threw him into prison. When the king learned what the man did he threw the man who he had forgiven into prison and turned him over to be tormented. Jesus said the same thing will happen to us when we refuse to forgive everyone who hurt us from our hearts. What torments us? Demons. Demons will torment our minds but also our bodies giving us sickness when we refuse to forgive those who hurt us due to bitterness which causes many sicknesses.
Hebrews 12:14-15
“Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;”
Defiled means to infect, poison, ruin and destroy.
So to stay as healthy as possible make sure to forgive everyone, from your heart, who has ever hurt you. Forgiveness does not mean you have to reconcile with those who hurt you. It means to give how they caused you to feel to the Lord along with your anger and bitterness and ask Jesus to heal you and then command all demons out of your soul and body.
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