Combatting Bitterness in Your Heart

Let me start this by asking for your forgiveness. I am not a biblical scholar or a pastor. I am simply a person trying to live a faithful and Godly life. I will be posting things for discussion, as I hope you will as the Spirit guides you, that hopefully will speak to you and help you live a life in the Spirit.

Can you think of the last time someone wronged you? I sure can. Did you dwell on it? Bitterness in your heart grows stronger when you "take into account a wrong suffered" (1 Corinthians 13:5 NASB). The more you dwell on your bitterness, the worse it becomes. It takes up room in your heart that can be filled with the Holy Spirit. Have you traveled the road where you felt like Jeremiah. "And my soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness. So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the Lord" (Lamentations 3:17-18 NASB).

Today let's focus on clearing our consciences. When you pray today, begin with praise to God. I recommend reading Psalm 1 aloud. After you praise God, confess to him any bitterness in your heart. Ask him to cleanse and purify you of the negative and fill that space in your heart with the Holy Spirit instead.

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