Read Genesis 4:3-7 from your Bible
We have here the story of Cain and Abel . Take note of the words, “Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.” That’s bitterness! Envy degenerated to anger, and anger degenerated into bitterness.
Everytime your countenance falls because your neighbor is lifted, there is death at the door! Somebody is favoured of God, and your countenance falls, somebody is promoted of God, and your countenance falls. That’s sin! “I must overtake him! I must be higher than him.” No! You don’t need that!
Listen to me friend, bitterness establishes self-inflicted curses. Look at Genesis 4:11-12 from your Bible.
That is the heritage of embittered people. When you allow envy to degenerate to anger, and then to bitterness, which brings you under this curse. You work and work, but nothing works! You’re under the curse of bitterness!
Nothing you do works when you’re a captive of bitterness. Your earth is cursed and is not allowed to bring forth her increase. Oh, may God deliver you from the curse of bitterness! No! Nothing works! It’s a terrible curse, sir!
Look, if you don’t chase out envy, it will degenerate to anger, and if you don’t deal with anger, it will degenerate to bitterness. And when it gets to bitterness, you’re gone!
God promotes your friend and he shares with you, and you half-heartedly say, “Praise God.” Then you begin to think, “Oh God, but we got born again the same day. Where is my own promotion now?” And before you know it, you’re complaining and murmuring. The next morning when he or she greets you, you reply with a straight face. Watch it, that’s how it begins.
Read Hebrews 12:14-15 from your Bible.
So bitterness troubles people. Be free from all bitterness, in Jesus’ name!
Bitterness is a plague! May God deliver you from it today; so you can be free from its attendant curses.
Do you know the curse of bitterness transcends generations? Why? Because your ground is cursed! So what will your children inherit? What will they pass down to their own children? So right down the line, the curse is passed from generation to generation! Let’s watch it therefore!
For you to hear or see that God is blessing a fellow brother or sister and you begin to run him or her down with stories that have no basis, that’s anger; and an excuse for your inadequacies and frustrations. May God help you to be happy with all your neighbors! That’s why Paul said in Galatians 6:10(read it from your Bible).
Your neighbor is not the reason you haven’t been promoted, he’s not the reason you don’t have a plot of land yet. It’s the thing inside you – the curse you inherited from your parents, the curse of seedtime and harvest, the generational curses that need to be broken, that’s why you’re where you are today. Free yourself now!
Anybody you see gathering against success never succeeds! May God deliver you from the gall of bitterness!
shalom!
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Jesus is Lord