rhema 2/03/08  UPROOTING THE BITTER ROOT OF A DIVIDED HOUSE

vision:  I saw a mantle being torn in half, top to bottom.   

HEARD:  What is this field? 

HEARD:  A root of bitterness.  This is important.  Dear God, please let everyone heal. 

DREAM:  I saw men angels in working clothes and they were walking down the river bank and I asked them if they could please pull out the big giant weeds, but please leave the ferns.  I saw the ferns were absolutely gorgeous and huge.  The weeds were the same size.

WORD TO PONDER:  2/03/08 UPROOTING THE BITTER ROOT OF A DIVIDED HOUSE

All over the world My people have suffered the deep, bitter pain of a house divided.  When resources have dwindled, when children leave the nest, when friends move, when a loved one dies, when betrayal works its rending, when opinions clash, when marriages fail .... all of these and more are the painful wounds of a house divided.  Many who have gone through this deep rending, have bitterroots that have grown up along the good fruit.  The crop is now full and I AM sending My angels to go out among the hearts of men and uproot the bitter root of a divided house.

Dear precious ones, when it comes time to uproot this bitter root, it will come out through weeping and acceptance.  I know this is very, very hard, but as you offer up the pain of your soul of feeling abandoned and alone, I will wash you with My Presence as I rain upon your tears and cleanse your soul.  As you look at the rending and accept that even in the worst case of failure, I have allowed this for your good, it will give you grace to swallow the bitter cup. 

When within the deepest agony of bitter tears, you are able to look up into My own wet face and be honored and thankful to have suffered for My will in your life, then you will know the final resting place and depths of a cleansed heart without a bitter root.  You will know My sweetest release and understand My love is bittersweet agony.

Hos 6:3 NKJV

Come, and let us return to the LORD; For He has torn , but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.  After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.  Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter and former rain to the earth.

Matt 27:50-54 NKJV

And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. 51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God!"

Mark 10:38-40 NKJV

 But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"   39 They said to Him, "We are able." So Jesus said to them, "You will indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism I am baptized with you will be baptized;

MISC SCRIPTURES ABOUT THE FRUIT OF BITTERNESS

 2 Kings 20:5 NKJV

In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.'"

2 Then he turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying, 3 "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

4 And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 5 "Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father:"I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.

Ex 15:22-27 NLT

They traveled in this desert for three days without water. 23 When they came to Marah, they finally found water. But the people couldn't drink it because it was bitter. (That is why the place was called Marah, which means "bitter.") 24 Then the people turned against Moses. "What are we going to drink?" they demanded. 

So Moses cried out to the LORD for help, and the LORD showed him a branch. Moses took the branch and threw it into the water. This made the water good to drink. It was there at Marah that the LORD laid before them the following conditions to test their faithfulness to him: 26 "If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and laws, then I will not make you suffer the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you."  27 After leaving Marah, they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees. They camped there beside the springs.

Luke 22:60-62 NKJV

But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are saying!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.  And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times."  So Peter went out and wept bitterly.

Acts 8:23 NKJV

For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity."

Eph 4:31-32 NKJV

Let all bitterness , wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Col 3:19 NKJV

Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.

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;

James 3:10-12 NKJV

 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening?

James 3:14-18 NKJV

 But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. 16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.