Let me get all of this off my chest:
Please forgive me. I have been blaming you all these years. What I’ve held in resentment against you makes no sense. See, I was mad at you for not loving me the way I THOUGHT I SHOULD BE LOVED. I’m sorry for holding my false expectations against you. What kind of sense does it make to be mad a someone for not loving me to my unattainable and unreasonable standards??
I’m sorry for expecting you to act the way I thought you should act. You could only be the way you could be then, now, maybe even tomorrow. I should never make how you act toward me or even how you act towards yourself a condition of how or why I love you. You don’t do what I think is right or acceptable. So what? Who am I not to love you?? It doesn’t mean I condone or put a stamp of approval on what you do. I just definitely won’t accept any abuse from you. But I realize, I HAVE TO love you, JUST THE WAY YOU ARE RIGHT NOW.
True love doesn’t seek to change someone. That’s manipulation and manipulation is a form of control. Control of your feelings, actions and speech would be witchcraft. So I repent right here and right now. I ask humbly for your forgiveness. I will no longer try to change you or control you with my love. I will just give you my love, as well as I know how, as unconditionally as I know how, as often as I’m led to do so.
For those who didn’t accept the love I had to share because they couldn’t or didn’t know how to accept that gift, God Almighty I release them to you. I no longer hold them in contempt because they weren’t capable of loving me the way I needed to be loved. I know now only You, my Creator and King can give me that complete love that I need to be made complete and whole.
Father God, forgive me for not accepting love in the form You chose to show me through their actions. I was wrong for expecting something from someone else when I didn’t show them the love I wanted in return. I will no longer hold someone to a standard that so often I could not keep myself. I lay down false expectations and pick up the mantle of peace.
I relinquish the spirit of unrequited love and I bind it up in it’s own chains of iniquity right now IN THE NAME OF JESUS! I am no longer unequally yoked to the rejection spirit which has held me back from receiving true and unconditional love. I am released from the boa constrictor spirit which was choking and squeezing true love out of my spirit. I am free from the leviathan spirit of pride which had swallowed my freedom to love others unreservedly through the Spirit of God. I am free and no longer afraid of my love being rejected and thrown back at me. If it be done unto me now, I will shake the dust from my feet and let YOU Father handle their mistake. I speak life into my love life, that it is balanced and healthy in every love relationship I hold, including my family, friends, co-workers, but especially my husband, church family and children. Every experience I have from this day forward shall bear the fruit of the spirit especially love, long-suffering, kindness and self control. I release and decree I shall no longer fake love but I shall endeavor to practice true love in all I say and do. I rebuke the spirits of fear, self loathing, self-deprecation, false humility, self-persecution and condemnation, depression, vanity of beauty and intellect. I am covered with the Blood of Jesus and I command my soul, intellect, feelings and emotions to align with the mind of Christ concerning true and unconditional love. Father, when the enemy attempts to make me speak negative concerning these affirmations, and when he tries to rule my thoughts through temptations and traps, remind me to bring all of my thoughts into captivity and cast down all vain imaginations through Your power which works in me via Holy Spirit. Each and every stronghold concerning relationships, friendship and love is torn down in the spirit realm and I establish You as my fortress and strong tower to protect me from all fiery darts and enemy arrows. I decree ministering angels shall encamp about me to both keep me in all Your Ways AND convict my spirit when I stray from Your paths.
Thank You Father for hearing my petition. Thank You for changing my heart and ways to walk in Your righteousness and in Your Holy path. I count it done. Thank You for the RELEASE AND FOR FREEDOM TO CHANGE. Even when others don’t acknowledge the change You have made in me, please help me to love them even the more. Even when they try to keep seeing me as the person they knew 35, 30 20, 10, 5 years ago, even yesterday, forgive them and help me to forgive them just as quickly as You have forgiven me. Thank YOU Father for the purging.
Whew. I feel so much better.
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