FROM MY DESK...................MY LATE PASTOR USED TO SAY.... STAY SWEET IN THE LORD... LIFE HAS TAUGHT ME TO BE BETTER RATHER THAN BITTER THROUGH LIFES CIRCUMSTANCES. PEOPLE WILL DO THINGS DELIBERATELY TO OFFEND YOU AND CAUSE YOU TO BE BITTER. THE DEVIL WILL GIVE YOU REASONS NOT TO FORGIVE, BUT NEVER FALL FOR HIS TRAPS.....I WILL NOT ALLOW OFFENSES TO HINDER AND BLOCK THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN MY LIFE, I HAVE CHOSEN TO WALK IN HIS LOVE (AGAPE LOVE) AND THROUGH HIS GRACE I WILL MAINTAIN THAT.... REGARDLESS OF WHO YOU ARE OE WHERE YOURE FROM, EACH OF US HAS THE CAPACITY TO BECOME BITTER AT TIMES. LIFE SIMPLY HAS A WAY OF PRESENTING CIRCUMSTANCES THAT IF NOT DEALT WITH PROPERLY CAN LEAVE US BITTER WITHIN. BITTERNESS IS AN EXTREMELY UNHEALTHY EMOTION THAT DEPLETES YOU OF ANY JOY YOU MAY POSSESS AND CAUSE YOU TO BECOME LESS THAN YOU WERE CREATED TO BE. I ALMOST FELL INTO THIS TRAP BUT THE LORD THROUGH HIS GRACE HAS ENABLED ME TO FORGIVE FOLK; BECAUSE THE JOY OF THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH...THE DEVIL WANTS TO ROB US OF OUR STRENGTH......... ONE MUST RECOGNISE THAT TO BE A BITTER PERSON IS NOT A NORMAL CHARACTERISTIC. BITTERNESS EVOLVES FROM A PROGRESSIVE STATE OF UNHEALTHY EMOTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN LEFT UN-DEALT WITH. ONE NEVER STARTS OUT BEING A BITTER PERSON; BITTERNESS GENERALLY FOLLOWS HURT FEELINGS AS A RESULT OF AN OFFENSE. EVEN UNFORGIVENESS THAT HAS BEEN LEFT UNRESOLVED CAN TURN TO BITTERNESS...... ANYONE WHO CAUSES OFFENSE DELIBERATELY IS BEING USED BY SATAN... JESUS WARNED IN LUKE 17:1-2 THEN SAID HE TO THE DISCIPLES, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT OFFEMSES WILL COME: BUT WOE TO HIM, THROUGH WHOM THEY COME...IT WERE BETTER FOR HIM THAT A MILESTONE WERE HANGED ABOUT HIS NECK, AND CAST INTO THE SEA, THAN THAT HE SHOULD OFFEND ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES.......HE THAT HATH AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR........................PHIL.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:03:17 +0000