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What if God could help you forget? What if you don’t have to carry this pain with you into your future? What if your wounds could be completely healed and every ounce of hurt redeemed? What if you don’t have to replay the story one more time? What if all that happened to you in the past, all the wrong that was done, all the harm inflicted, what if God could help you just forget it?

I know that sounds too good to be true – but this is possible spiritually!

But would you want to? Would you be willing to receive that level of healing?

There’s a story in the bible of that level of healing from past hurts. And, Sis, it’s recorded in the Bible because God wants us to know of his power then that’s still available now! I believe today God is asking if you’re ready to forget. Are you ready to be completely healed from that hurt? Are you ready for total restoration of what happened in the past?

Some aren’t ready. Some simply aren’t ready to let go of the story. Some aren’t ready to turn over the hurt. Some want to hold on to that suitcase of packed up pain and drag it around into every new season of life that comes.

There’s no judgement here. That’s what pain makes us do. It makes us carry baggage that weighs us down. It fills our hands so we aren’t available to receive anything new or different. It causes us to get stuck in the past because it’s too heavy to continue into the future. But God wants his girl HEALED! He wants your hands free.

You are not meant to carry this burden, my sister. This pain you feel is too heavy. This story that hurts you cannot continue to replay. You will get stuck here. You will lose your joy here. You will become a shell of the vibrant person God created you to be. So, God wants you to know about Manasseh.

Yes, that’s your answer here. Manasseh.

Even if you don’t yet know what that word means, can’t you feel the effects of it over your burdened spirit? Manasseh.
Can’t you feel you ache of what happened and the pain of what they did lighten? Manasseh.
Manasseh over your broken heart.
Manasseh over all that wasn’t fair to you.
Manasseh over your shattered dreams.
Manasseh over what was stolen from you.
Manasseh over your deepest hurt.
Manasseh.

What does Manasseh mean? To understand fully, you must first remember the story of Joseph. Well it’s a good thing we’ve been studying the life of Joseph in Genesis!

Joseph from the dysfunctional family where his father’s favor caused his jealous brothers to sell him into slavery. He’s in a pit, then he’s in a prison. He was accused of doing things he didn’t do. He was used. He was forgotten.

But, through it all, Joseph remained faithful. No matter how unfair his circumstance were, he trusted God. After 22 years, Joseph becomes a powerful man, second in charge of all of Egypt. His trust in God in all the unfair places led him to great success. But …

But imagine the hurt he still carried. All the people, his own family, that had betrayed him. People he loved. People he trusted. They had hurt him. It was still there, replaying in his mind. He had to ask why. Why did his brothers do this to him? Why did every friend he make turn on him and use him? Why was he continually punished for things he didn’t do?

But, here’s what God did for him … he made him forget.

God blessed Joseph with a son. That’s son’s name was Manasseh. Manasseh, in Hebrew means to forget.
Genesis 41:51, “Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”

God has made me forget all my trouble. All that has happened in the past. All that pain. All that hurt. All that was unfair. God just took it from me. He healed me. He healed my heart and he healed my mind. The memories no longer torment me. The stories no longer play on a perpetual loop. All that was intended for harm has