My Heart Is On Fire By Doug Apple - A Short Christian Devotional To Open The Scriptures And Make Your Heart Burn Within You!

I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) “And God I forgive everyone for everything, past…present…and future…” That’s my daily prayer. I pray through the Lord’s Prayer and when I come to the part about “…as we forgive those…” I stop and say, “God, right now, I forgive everyone for everything, past, present, and future. I preemptively forgive everyone for everything they might do or say, so that I’m free to love them like You want me to love them, with the power of the Holy Spirit flowing through me.” Yes, we know we are supposed to forgive people, but it doesn’t end there. The big goal is to love people. Forgiveness gets all the offenses out of the equation which sets us free to love people. I often say this. I forgive people so that I’m free to love people the way God wants me to love them, to want God’s best for them, and to even rejoice over them! My friend said, “Well, I&