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I receive You now as my personal Lord and Savior. Thank You for empowering me with Your Spirit, Lord, so I can forgive, forget and release the scars of my past and those who caused them. Thank You for healing me in spirit, body, soul (which includes my mind, will, emotions and intellect), relationships and finances, Lord. Father, I receive Your stars in exchange for my scars. I will use my past, not as a stumbling block, but as a stepping-stone to higher heights in You, in Jesus' name. Amen. (Signature) ________ (Date) ________ BILLY JOE DAUGHERTY is founder and pastor of Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

There was no one to visit Joseph, no one to write to him, no one to encourage him. When you are slandered, lied about and misrepresented, then you've got a scar you have to deal with. Joseph had to face the same music he faced with his brothers. Slandered and wounded without a cause, he had to let go of it. Everyone has experienced some type of bad word spoken against them at one time or another. If those scars are held, they will keep you in bondage. But if you let go of them, you will rise above whatever anyone has ever done to you.

Genesis 39:10-18 Potiphar never questioned his wife's story. In his anger, he "took him [Joseph] and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined. And he was there in the prison" (v. 20). Once again, Joseph received a scar for something he didn't do. This scar was against his integrity and character. Although he knew he had done no wrong, he could not convey his innocence to the people because the circumstances and evidence, though untrue, framed him. What was his voice against the voice of a woman of this stature?