REMOVING ROOTS OF BITTERNESS AND STRONGHOLDS I have been crying out to the Lord in tears over the bitter words coming from people. I am grieved for their souls. Proverbs 15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. Breach {Heb}: Fracture, bruising, vexation. HEARD: A filthy mouth. VISION: I saw this yucky looking root that was a root of bitterness. OVERCOMING ROOTS OF BITTERNESS AND STRONGHOLDS We are in the days of the harvest where every seed that has been planted in our lives is coming to fruition. The compounding issue of this truth, is that everything planted into the dna of our bloodline is also coming to fruit. And we are the generation to face this truth, overcome this and deal with it. HOW? A root of bitterness lives in the heart A stronghold lives in the mind Often people have both a root of bitterness and a stronghold Each are different types of captivity, but both start with un-forgiveness It is time to be delivered from both and God needs our cooperation A root of bitterness is like the root ball of a plant that lives in the heart. The seeds of a bitter root comes in at a point of trauma or wound, usually in childhood. Throughout life’s circles, circumstances surround and compound the trauma to cause the seed to grow into a plant because un-forgiveness was fed by negative thoughts, emotions and words. 2/15/14 HEARD: What are you doing? Just pour out the river of life into their bones. Holy Spirit come. Offer these up to the Lord, every point of trauma. Every remembrance, melt. Getting rid of a bitter root is forgiving who caused a wound… was it God’s non-intervention? Was it another’s choice that impacted your life? Was it your reaping something you sowed? Forgive God, forgive others, forgive yourself. Simple let it go, don’t hang onto it any more. Matthew 6:15 But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. FORGIVE {Greek}: to send away, forsake, lay aside, leave, let go, put away, yield up. TRESPASSES {Greek}: An intentional or unintentional side-slip, lapse, deviation, error, fall, fault, offence, sin. Most people have a bitter root and unless they are completely defiled by its poison, they don’t realize they have one and it continues to grow unnoticed until the day it dawns upon them that something they “feel” or “say” is not in Jesus’s image - not loving, not good, and is actually sin against scripture through the way they think or speak. HEARD: Alignment. Be fruitful. Your tongue matters. Pro 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. “The reason you aren’t being released in the great power of the spoken word is that you would kill one another. You are being equipped and trained to not use your mouth for the wrong thing. If you cant speak good of somebody, then I wouldn’t speak at all. It’s time that we quit our slander and gossip and all these things. If you cant talk good of somebody, then be quiet.” Pro 31:26 She opens her mouth in skillful and godly Wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness [giving counsel and instruction]. LISTEN TO WHAT YOU SAY, ARE YOU GRIEVING THE HOLY SPIRIT? Do you want intimacy with the Lord? Do you long to draw close to His Spirit and be Spirit led? Do you want to hear Him more? Your words can drive intimacy away causing distress, sadness, heaviness, grief and sorrow in His heart and yours. Ephesians 4:29-32 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed unto the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christs sake has forgiven you. Bitterness {Greek}: Piercing, sharp, pungent, acrid poison. Wrath {Gk}: Passion, fierce indignation. Anger {Gk}: Violent desire. Evil speaking {Gk}: Abusive speech against man’s reputation, blaspheme, railing Bob Jones
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 06:16:22 +0000
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