You can let go of bitterness.. Pray for your Enemies. Pray for God's Will for them. Hold onto the Great Love Inside of yo❤️...it is Valuable. It will Always Be A Blessing for A Person In Need.
That was so good!!! Oh God, please help me with this bitterness!! This should be our prayer when we are bitter. Also remember that God, by these kinds of trials, letting loose someones mouth against us, is teaching us many things. Patience, long suffering, showing us our sinful nature and whats in our own hearts and we are being exercised in endurance. Look how Jesus behaved when he was abused. He prayed for them. Are we doing that? Are we obeying Christ when he commanded us to pray for those who mistreat you? Let us learn from our Blessed Master and trust in our faithful Father who will not allow us to be tempted more than what we are able to bare. Pray always, ask God for help and dont give the devil a foothold. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. God bless you. Thanks pastor John! Thank you my Lord for your precious and most needfull discipline!!!
I think bitterness comes from fear. Holding onto things that happened so that you'll remember and that the same thing will never happen to you again. Its a protection. But in reality its not a protection, its a jail cell. So long as you hold onto things you are affirming and confirming the lies that you have believed about yourself as a consequence of what happened. Marcus Aerlius said, if you reject the sense of injury then the injury itself disappears. Let it go, God is your protection.
Amen. it really is fear....fear that what God said in His word won't come to pass. Unbelief. And bitterness is self preservation or protection like you said. But like you said its a prison that doesn't let you enjoy anything. You end up hating everything and find no joy in life.....and the thing that keeps you in it is the fact that it is true that its a righteous indignation or an unjustice. Just because its an evil or wrong thing...doesnt mean we hold it. Trust God and move on. He is faithful to repay and uphold you and whatever is lost can be restored double
Thank you a pastor John! Every morning I wake up remembering everything I suffered in my relationship but I want to move on. I decided to forgive but the memories keep coming in. Now I know how to set up my mind. God bless you!
- Bitterness arises from deep wrongs, often repeated, intensified by a sense of injustice. - God offers four principles to combat bitterness with His help. - Recognize you don't deserve better from God, considering our inherent sinfulness. - Embrace and ponder the immense forgiveness received from God through Christ. - Trust that God is using pain for a greater eternal purpose and will ensure justice.
Pastor John you are such a blessing from the Lord, thank you for putting the feeling in words so that i can reason about them now Im only 1 minute in and i feel so understood finally thank you Jesus
This is the exact message I've needed to hear... for the past 10 years. 😅 Thank you, John Piper. Your messages always seem to reach me at the right time! God's providence is amazing.
Pastor John, I was abused by both parents, physically and mentally, this carried over to my adult life, my bones were broken as a baby now, I can't work, I had 2 very abusive marriages. I accepted Christ in my 20s . But the abuse from In laws, people at church ,I now live alone with my dog. No Friends.where do I go from here?
As a man being "friendzoned" on more than one occasion all through my late teens and 20s has made me completely bitter because it's nothing more than a sad reminder that I've never been able to succeed in having a successful relationship with a woman - I'm now in my 30s - Being single and in your 30s in the church is just depressing, part of the reason I've been watching online sermons at home for years now. The church has also failed to help people meet their future spouse so is it any wonder that more Christians have resorted to online dating apps :/ and then we can't forget men can't even safely ask a woman out anymore all thanks to the feminism / metoo movements
I find it very Difficult to accept that the only way to fight bitterness is to Realise that "we don't deserve better than we got from God". Rape is NOT deserved. Being Abused or abandoned or Betrayed is NOT deserved! It's PAINFUL and Life shattering. And I don't see WHERE in the Bible God treats such sins against others as "deserved" by the victim! Calvinism is a Problem when it comes to this
You can forgive and also hold people accountable for their wickedness, especially if it is going to continue to harm you or others. This is especially true of abusiveness. God bless, friend :)
What about the true forgiveness of Jesus Christ? Do unto others as you want done unto yourself. I want true forgiveness, and repentance. Forgive so you can be forgiven. I think that karma is biblical. But since Jesus payed for our sins on the cross isn’t true forgiveness through Jesus a real thing. Your words towards the end of this video made it seem to me that it’s not, and produced worry in myself.
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So terribly disappointed that you attempted to equated the butchery and holocaust of the abortion trade to the negative side effects of course language.. Beyond the pale
