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Friday Check-in: Resting in God’s Forgiveness - 10/24/2025

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Oct 23, 2025
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Welcome to our weekly Friday Check-in for October 24th, 2025 ✅

We invite you to pause and become aware of God’s loving presence... you might light a candle or get in a prayerful posture, and take these next few minutes to become quiet and still.

Let's begin with,

Page: An Invitation to Reflection

 
Read 1 Corinthians 13 (NIV) three times.
 

“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

 

Spend a few minutes journaling in response to this passage:
  • What stands out to you most? Is there a particular word or phrase?
  • As you read through it a second time… ask God, “to what area of my life does that particular word or phrase connect?”
  • And as you read a third time, be asking God, “Is there an invitation for me?” Is there a response of some kind that God is inviting you into?
Today’s Scripture Focus: “Love... keeps no record of wrongs” (1 Cor. 13:5). Meditate on this one phrase for a minute, repeating it slowly in your mind or out loud. Where are you still holding on to guilt or shame, despite God’s forgiveness? What might it look like to live free as one who is already released from the record of wrongs?
 
Next up is,
Person: An Invitation to Connection

 

Offer forgiveness to someone in your life, not necessarily with words if that’s not possible yet, but as a choice in your heart to release them into God’s love. This isn’t easy. Take time to pray on how you might engage the practice of forgiveness and letting go.
 
 
Finally we have,
Plan: An Invitation to Intention

 

Journal a prayer of release: write down what you’re still carrying, then cross it out or tear it up as a symbolic act of receiving God’s complete forgiveness.
 
Closing Prayer:
 
Merciful God,
Thank You for a love that forgets our mistakes, that does not hold our past against us. We lay down what we have been carrying... guilt, shame, regrets... and we offer them into Your faithful, forgiving hands.

Even as we release, some burdens feel heavy still. Meet us there, Lord. Hold what is too tender for us to let go fully. Surround us with Your grace, and remind us that nothing can separate us from Your love.
 
Help us to live loved, free from the record of wrongs, and to step forward into each day knowing we are wholly forgiven and wholly cherished. Amen.
 

Amen! Thanks for checking in today. You are loved.

-Team Soul Care

 

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