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                    Can You Forgive Yourself?	

	But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them 
	snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses: they are 
	for prey                                  --  Isaiah 42:22a

Dear children, in times past when you prayed for My forgiveness, I forgave 
you even before your prayers of repentence were finished.  Yet now, you 
recall and drag up your painful past, the mistakes you made, the hurts 
you caused, the sorrow you brought and the words you spoke in anger.

This day, many of My children are in prison houses of regret, guilt and 
shame.  You recall the past again and again even when I say, "Remember ye 
not the former things, neither consider the things of old." (Isaiah 43:18)

Look, My child and understand.  I have forgiven you long ago, can you not 
forgive yourself?  Can the devil lock you up in your own prison house 
when he doesn't even have the keys to his own house?  See, I have placed 
the key to your own prison house in your own hands.  This key opens your 
prison house; it is the key to freedom and liberty, but you have to unlock 
yourself and be free.

The name of this key is "I forgive myself."

I have forgiven you, can you forgive yourself?