RHEMA 3/16/09  ROOT OF BITTERNESS, ONE GENTLE TUG AT A TIME

DREAM:  I dreamed that I wrote a prayer request about my need to be delivered from the root of bitterness.  It had to do with deep disappointment over a certain issue in my life that seemed to continue to crop up.  I explained in the letter that I had continued to cover, forgive and not judge or stumble over the issue, but I was still not released from the bitterroot that I felt in regards to it.

Heb 12:14-16  NKJV

 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled.

HEARD:  Major, major issue.  Much too complicated to pull out in one pull.  Been working on this for years, gently easing one tug at a time.  Both tug and issue at a time. 

WORD TO PONDER  UPROOTING THE BITTER ROOT  3/16/09

Thank you beloved one, for asking Me to remove the bitterness you feel over specific issues in your life.  I know it has deeply grieved you to have suffered deep blows of disappointment and loss.  I understand that every time you revisit those places through circumstance or conversation, you are again struggling to yield your responses up to Me, because you understand they are not My nature.  Out of the heart, the mouth speaks.  And this is how the poison of bitterness infects others who listen.  I am so very proud of you when I see that your conversation has suddenly turned bitter, unforgiving, critical, judgmental or negative ...that you stop, repent and yield.  I have been with you each step of the way and I AM helping you overcome.

I have heard every prayer and I have been working on this bitter root for many, many years.  Beloved, it is I Who have allowed these reminders to be revisited, to give you these opportunities to cry out for deliverance.  Every time you yield, is like plowing the soil of your heart and making it softer for weeding.  Each and every time you have cried out, I have been there to gently pull and tug these deeply embedded roots up closer to the surface.  However if I pulled this deeply complicated issue out in one big pull, the damage it would do to your faith and soul would be too much trauma. 

Did I not say that I allowed the tares and the wheat to grow up together, lest it damage My crop?  So shall it be that in the fullness of harvest, that deep root you have wrestled with for so many years will finally be out of your life forever.  Fear not that day, Beloved one.  It will come out softly, just as My love melts your heart, and just as My balm pours deep healing into your veins. 

Eph 4:31-32 NKJV

Let all bitterness , wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Matt 13:26-30 NKJV

 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.  27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares ?'  28 He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Do you want us then to go and gather them up?'  29 But he said, 'No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.  30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn."'"