Bitterness – The Enemy Within

SUNDAY 29^TH JUNE 2025

TOPIC: BITTERNESS – THE ENEMY WITHIN

SCRIPTURE: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Hebrews 12:15

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: A broken spirit dries up the bones.

I heard a story of a nurse who had blood cell cancer. She consulted a Christian hematologist, a specialist in blood diseases, for remedy.

During the consultation, he asked her an unexpected question, “Is there anyone who offended you and drove you into bitterness?” Though surprised about the unexpected question, she admitted being bitter against her father.

What happened? When she was a child, her mother was sick and her father sent her to call the village doctor but before she could return, the mother died. No one explained anything to her but what she saw next was her mother being carried in a box (coffin) and lowered down the earth. The question in her tiny mind was, “Why is daddy suffocating mummy?” Before she could recover from that, her mother was buried.

Afterwards, her father remarried another woman who began to maltreat her. That bitterness remained in her heart until adulthood and ultimately manifested physically as blood cell cancer.

Now, the blood is made from bone marrow; and the Scripture says that a broken spirit dries up the bones (Proverbs 17:22).

The doctor talked her into forgiving her father, and immediately she forgave, within six weeks, every trace of cancer disappeared. All she needed to do was to release forgiveness and receive healing.

Beloved, bitterness is a root that develops into some fruits and the fruits are afflictions, troubles, and torments (Hebrews 12:15, Matthew 18:28-34). If you are bitter against someone, release forgiveness and you will receive healing and peace on every side.

Remember this: A broken spirit dries up the bones.

 ASSIGNMENT (S):

1. Make demands on the grace to forgive.
2. Forgive anyone who has offended you in the past and ready to forgive future offences and offenders.
3. Refuse to be a source of offense.

PRAYER: Lord, I receive grace to forgive those who offended me. I refuse to accommodate bitterness, Lord, in Jesus’ Name.

 FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: The Root of Bitterness 

 DAILY BIBLE READING: Proverb 4-6

 QUOTE: If you harbour, even for a minute, the act of bitterness or unforgiveness, you are indirectly putting on the nature of satan the devil. Culled from Am I Bitter? By Dr (Mrs) Becky Paul-Enenche.

 AMAZING FACT: Until 1986 you didn’t even have to buy property in Alaska. You could build a house, and it would be yours.

PROPHETIC DECLARATION/WORD: The grace to live free of bitterness and malice is released upon you in Jesus Name.