Our Guest Peter Horrobin

Sid: One of the biggest obstacles for people knowing the good news is they don’t meet people that know the good news that are free.  And the reason that Jesus came was to set captives free. You cannot be free if you have something separating you for true intimacy with God.  The greatest thing you can give someone is the hope that they can have what you have and what you have is great intimacy with God.  And that’s why I’m so excited about my guest this week from Lancaster, England his name is Peter Horrobin.  And we’re featuring his book it’s called “The Most Powerful Prayer On Earth.”  And Peter this isn’t just physical healing this is every arena of life that when you pray this most powerful prayer and it’s very important for you to understand all the nuances and Peter is a gifted teacher and I see why God told him to write this book.  Peter in your book you outline 7 necessary steps I wonder if you could briefly just tell us these steps for forgiveness and freedom. And then perhaps we can have a prayer for people.

Peter:  I would love to tell people the steps. I want to tell them something else first.  In Psalm 19 God made some wonderful promises He promises revival for the soul, wisdom, joy for the heart, and light for the eyes.  These are the things which hallmarks somebody who’s living in the light of God and whole and radiant in God.  They all come through walking within what Psalm 19 says “The law of Lord, the statutes of the Lord, the precepts of the Lord and the commands of the Lord and living in the fear of the Lord.”  And these are some will say “Well, how can I know revival, how can I know healing? And God has given us wonderful instruction in His word. And one of the laws of the Lord the commands of the Lord is to forgive, so that we ourselves will be forgiven and we will know life.  And what I’ve put together is 7 simple steps because most of us when we hear something oh yes, forgive to complicated we need a simple way of looking and this is not simplistic this is actually something which is easy to understand but it’s incredible profound.  The first step is actually to make a choice, to make a decision.  And we need to get to that place and say “Okay Lord I don’t necessarily understand this but this is what You word says and I know that Your word speaks truth and I’m trusting that You know better than I do; I’m trusting in Your wisdom and I want to walk in your ways.  And you have said “If we don’t forgive others…” this is Matthew 6:15, “then we will not be forgiven and Lord I long to know the true forgiveness and the true healing that flows from Your heart.”  So I want to actually begin to walk in forgiveness so we have to make a choice. So that’s your number one step I choose to forgive.  I don’t think about what the consequences are; I don’t think “Well, they don’t deserve to be forgiven, I didn’t deserve to be forgiven for my sins.”  We choose to forgive, that’s number one.  Having made this choice to forgive you then say “What do I do next?”  Well, I’m a very practical sort of person and I say “Get out a piece of paper and make a list and begin to pray through your life.  Now you can pray from now and work back to the beginning or you can begin at the beginning and work through to where you are it doesn’t matter.  But ask God to show you those people who have hurt you and you’re still carrying the pain or the memory, or the hurt and the damage of what they have said or done.  And the number one name on the list is usually parents because even though we may have had very good parents they have still been sinful parents, they have not been perfect and there’s consequences of things that said and done which maybe we’re carrying even now.  Like the man who wanted to be an Engineer, but his father insisted that he’s going to be a doctor because his father wants to be a doctor and couldn’t.  And this poor man was forced into the medical profession and at the age of 50 he wants to commit suicide.  And was actually desperate and retired because he just couldn’t cope; and healing began with just forgiving his father.  And we need to just walk through our life saying God who do I need to forgive, we need to forgive parents because “I was a girl and actually they wanted a boy, and I’ve known from day one that I wasn’t actually what they wanted.”  And you had to live under that shadow of being the wrong sex or you had brothers or sisters that were preferred above you and you always felt as though you were in adequate. At school you weren’t very sporty and you were at school where you were good at sport and you were somebody and you felt total rejected. And maybe marriage you husband ran off with somebody else and you’ve been carrying that pain for years or you lost a child through somebody else’s bad driving and your son or daughter was killed or very injured and it was somebody else’s fault and every day you’re thinking “Oh, all the anger and the pain and the bitterness comes to the surface.”  These are just illustrations and we need to put all these names on the list, just make the list and don’t worry too much about what they’ve done or how you’re going to cope with it but make the list.  So we’ve now got 2 steps done, you’ve made a choose and now you’re made a list.  Now having got the list down we then start to forgive and we do this systematically we go through them one at a time.  We recognize that we need forgiveness and I have a little prayer that goes like this “Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross that I might be forgiven, I’m sorry for my own sins and I ask you to be my Savior and Lord of my life because we can only pray these prayers of forgiveness when Jesus is Lord because this is a supernatural thing it goes beyond our humanity and we need His help.  And now please forgive me for the things that I’ve done wrong and help me to forgive from my heart all the people on my list.”  And we go through them one by one with this very simple prayer.  I now choose to forgive and put in there the name John or Mary or whatever the name maybe for what they did for abusing me; for saying bad things about me, for rejecting me, for whatever it is that they’ve done. Speak it out and then say and “I release this person and mention their name into the freedom of my forgiveness.”  And say then before God “I will not hold these things against them anymore.”  You know it’s a very simple prayer and for some people it’s a hard prayer to pray because they feel as though they’ve been robbed of so much there have been thieves and robbers that have robbed them of their destiny, robbed them of their hope.  You know I had one lady who said “I’ve been bitter for 30 years and I’m not going to waste one of them” and then she suddenly realized that what a stupid thing it was to say. And for 30 years her life had been destroyed by her own bitterness, and if she was going to continue it she was going to waste the nest 30 years as well.  And she got major physical healings, she had a back that was crumbling because of disintegration of the spine and God brought healing to her in an extraordinary way. She went through her list and she prayed for every single person one by one; now having gone through the list you then start saying. God I ask you for my freedom, this is step 4.  I’ve had each person on the list you can then pray a very simple prayer thank you Lord for helping me to forgive this person, I ask you to set me free for every ungodly influence that that’s brought upon me and receive that healing, receive the deliverance sometimes the supernatural God brings deliverance. We say “We’re sorry” this is step 5 of blaming God for things that we’re blaming Him for when they’re not His fault, because that can be a barrier to our healing.  And then we pray the most powerful prayer on earth; Jesus said “Father, forgive them.”  And we need to say “Father forgive them.” The desire Lord “I would love this person to be blessed in the way that I’m blessed,” and that’s what Jesus said, “Bless those that curse you.”  And as we get to that place of praying blessing on others even those that have hurt us that’s the key to step 7 which is resurrection morning and the key to Jesus after.  The key to Jesus after praying that prayer He died and He rose from the dead.  And we’ve seen resurrection come to people’s life, it’s as if they’re coming out of the grave, it’s as if the grave clothes have been stripped off them and the heart is being changed.  And what’s happening in the heart changes in the body because we have spirit, soul and body and what’s happening on the inside changes it on the outside.  It’s a wonderful experience to see people getting transformed to the healing God brings through forgiveness.

Sid: Peter, I think it’s so wonderful the way you have taught and put this in this little book…Would you pray that everyone that is listening would… that the Holy Spirit would convict and show us people we need to forgive that we have maybe even forgotten about.

Peter: Yeah, I’d love to pray for people.  Father God I want to thank You that your heart is to forgive us; but Lord you recognize that sometimes we cut ourselves off from you by the action of our own heart. And sometimes people would actually have forgotten about they are there in the background and the enemy is holding on to those things so that we can’t receive God’s healing and rest, restoring power.  I pray right now that as people are listening to this broadcast that Your Holy Spirit will bring to the surface the names of those people that they need to forgive. Bring them right now to the depths of their memory; bring them right back from early childhood though teenage years.

Sid: In Yeshua’s name.  And I believe so many of you are going to be healed right now.