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Deuteronomy 7 v 15 says that if you walk in obedience, “the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt which you knew will He put upon you…”
A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22
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Bitterness is a principality and under it and answering to it are seven spirits that reinforce bitterness:
(Eph 6:12 NASB For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.)
(Eph 6:12 NASB For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.)
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1. Unforgiveness
This is how bitterness first gets a foot hold. You begin to keep a record of wrongs and you carry unforgiveness in your heart. You say to yourself, “I am not prepared to forgive you and I am going to remember what you did to me.” You think on all the wrong things that have been done to you and every time that person’s face comes to your mind, that high octane ping goes off inside of you. This unforgiveness invites the next six spirits to become a part of your life: 2. Resentment Resentment develops as you continue to meditate on that record of wrongs and fume and steam internally over it. The thorn tree that I spoke about in the chapter “Essential Background Knowledge of Disease from a Medical Perspective” is beginning to grow in your brain and secrete chemicals that putting your body into a toxic state of dis-ease. Those chemicals are carrying negative emotion Bitterness, like battery acid, corrodes and eats away at your soul. It poisons first your mind and then your body with disease. and that is why you have that bad feeling in your gut every time that person comes to your mind. Resentment keeps the unforgiveness in place. 3. Retaliation After the resentment has been simmering for a while, the steam builds up and you start thinking of ways to get even with that person. They must pay for what they did. 4. Anger Un-forgiveness, resentment and retaliation has been building up and now you are very, very angry. The pressure cooker is really going and adding fuel to the fire. This anger is both seen and felt. |
5. Hatred
Now that you are angry, hatred gets a foothold. You are saying, “I remember what you did to me. I have really been meditating on it and I really resent it. I’m going to get even with you and make you pay.” At this stage hatred begins to say, “You do not deserve to exist. There is no room on this earth for you and me to both be at the same place at the same time.” Hatred starts to go into the elimination mode: 6. Violence Hatred fuels violence. Violence says, “Before I eliminate you, you are going to feel my pain.” Violence is anger and hatred in action. It can take the form of verbal, emotional, physical or sexual abuse. 7. Murder Once violence erupts, the final fruit of bitterness is murder. This can be literal physical murder, premeditated murder which is murder of the heart or murder with the tongue which is gossip, slander or character trashing. When hatred, violence and murder are in a person’s life, they feel they are justified and that person is going to pay the price. Unfortunately the person does not realize that by this stage the devil has managed to get in and alter his body chemistry, causing diseases like cancer that are resulting in death of his own body. If any one of these seven areas that answer to bitterness are present, the preceding ones are usually also there, and if they are not dealt with, all the rest will surely come. - For example, if the person has hatred in his heart, un-forgiveness, resentment, retaliation and anger will also be there. - You will not be able to remove bitterness from your life until you deal with un-forgiveness, resentment, retaliation, anger, hatred, violence and murder behind it. |
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