BITTERNESS

SYMPTOMS OF BITTERNESS

Heb 12:15

◦ Hypersensitivity/exaggerative
◦ Always negative
◦ Ungrateful/ not appreciative
◦ Hold grudges/ do not forgive
◦ They have mood swings
◦ They have imaginery conversations(recollection)
◦ They have joy speaking against others
◦ They are happy when people fail
◦ They will always complain because they lack peace and perceive that the source of their bitterness is from people/always blaming people
◦ A bitter person has a woundedheart

FACTS ABOUT BITTERNESS

Ephesians 4:31-32
◦ It means you have not forgiven and you cannot be forgiven
◦ Bitterness is unforgiveness farmented / it is thick and heavy
◦ The more you hold on to your past, the more you are drunk with pain.
◦ God cannot draw near a bitter heart/ it makes you repellant to people around you also
◦ Bitterness becomes an altar of the enemy in your life
◦ This is the point where life has no meaning to many, to the extent of engaging in things like drug abuse
◦ Bitterness is corrosive and destroys the host completely ( it’s like taking rat poison and expects the rat to die)

RESULTS OF BITTERNESS

◦ No peace in life, if your heart is bitter then the prince of peace cannot dwell in you
◦ You are always discouraged in everything
◦ Bitterness causes hatred because you are attaching bitterness/failures to everybody
◦ Bitterness causes complete spiritual death
◦ When bitterness comes to the maximum, people engage in ungodly things, you loose friends, family and everyone who is close
◦ It is an open door for affliction both to the church and the world, souce of backsliding
◦ A bitter heart cannot worship God

How to be delivered from bitterness(evil)
◦ Forgive and let that person go then bitterness will have no legal ground, you will have dealt with the root of that evil