"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins." Mark 11:24-25
Are you aware that unforgiveness is actually a curse?
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist" to know and have had experiences with that; it's usually harder on the person who cannot forgive than on the other since he's the one experiencing the rage and bitterness. But bearing unforgiveness is such a grave curse because it's taking lightly God's own forgiveness of you - in other words, unforgiveness is a way of spitting on His blood and refusing to clear other people's debt to you even though your own debt has been cleared by someone else. It becmoes a barrier between you and others, ultimately between you and God, and significantly blocks out a large potential of blessings that God is ever so ready to give you.
"...whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him..."
see the link? :)
Also, think about why it's mentioned in the Lord's prayer too - with just like approximately 6 lines to encompass the whole of the bible and the whole of our lives Jesus actually makes it a point to include the point on forgiveness hence showing how significant it actually is. Most importantly, we finish the Lord's prayer with the concluding lines but most people aren't actually aware of the lines that immediately succeed the Lord's prayer in Matthew 6:
"For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins." (v14-15)
Voila. there ya go. From my personal experience forgiveness was such, such, such a key feature in my breakthrough with God and spiritual blessings; I had to keep praying for God to open my eyes to hurts in the past that I've slowly become immune or blinded to, had to keep praying for God to compassion and love to forgive, and there were lots of times I really thought they didn't mean anything to me anymore, or when I thought I've forgiven them, only to realise that the way they're affecting me at the present still clearly reflected I hadn't. God had to bring me back to every stage of my life to see who I haven't actually forgiven...
Your parents? Your ex-girlfriend or boyfriend? Your sibling? A friend from secondary school who betrayed you? Yourself?
"Here I am humbled by the love that you give
Forgiven so that I can forgive" - Delirious
http://www.delirious.org.uk/lyrics/songs/majesty.html
