2013-11-26T06:00:03-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/bitterness/ http://faithgateway.com/bitter-root/ 2013-11-26T06:00:03-05:00 As the holiday season begins, we at Devotionals Daily thought it might be good to do a little preemptive heart check before we set the table, prepare meals, and plan visits with extended family and with friends. If there are painful messes, annoyances that have built up into grudges, or any upset feelings at all […] http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/what-keeps-your-father-from-helping-6661 2012-08-06T09:56:02-05:00 Your Father is standing there ready to help as only He can, but you've got to release that bitterness that's making your burden so much heavier. Why carry that load too? Your Father wants to trade your bitterness for His energizing grace. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-rest-of-the-story-6432 2011-09-06T09:49:08-05:00 Think about that person you care about, or that person who's hard to care about. You can focus on what they're putting you through, or what they're going through. And if you'll get the rest of the story, you'll be just like Jesus. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/poison-in-your-soul-6225 2010-11-30T09:41:39-05:00 You've been the forgivee - now you become the forgiver. Or you store poison in your soul; poison that will cripple or destroy so much that could have been. It's time for the antidote. It's time to be free. It's time to forgive. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/paved-over-problems-6209 2010-10-28T10:52:22-05:00 The things you've tried to bury are like ticking time bombs or toxic waste dumps. The longer you wait to deal with them, the bigger and deeper they will grow. Peace at any price usually means just war postponed...and bigger than it would have been if you had dealt with it sooner. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/the-open-window-6138 2010-07-23T16:06:03-05:00 Unresolved conflicts, a wandering eye, playing with temptation that you should be avoiding like the plague, letting your passions push you to the moral edge, watching and listening to stuff that opens your heart to things you think you'll never do - those are open windows. Windows that you can't afford to leave open one more day. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/taking-back-what-the-enemy-stole-6029 2010-02-18T09:46:45-05:00 The enemy may have his hand on something or someone right now he has no right to. It's time for you to follow General Jesus into the battle to take back what the enemy has stolen! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/cutting-the-cord-that-slows-you-down-3494 2009-09-22T09:27:50-05:00 The ironic thing about not forgiving someone is that our grudge actually ties us to them emotionally. We think about them a lot; they are a main character in what replays in our mind all the time. The very person you don't want to be tied to you are tied to by your bitterness toward them. That's why you haven't been able to run emotionally. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/a-bucket-of-water-or-a-three-alarm-fire-2782 2009-09-18T14:12:21-05:00 Don't wait another day to do something about the fire. It's as small now as it will ever be. Gently confront what you have to confront, forgive what you have to forgive, apologize for what you have to apologize for, and overlook what you have to overlook, but deal with whatever is between you. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/tick-bites-5873 2009-09-11T10:46:27-05:00 Scripture warns us, "See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many." Bitterness and resentment always begin just as this little root. But bitterness never stays a little root. It keeps growing into a poisonous plant that ends up hurting us and hurting others. A root of bitterness has destroyed marriages, churches, friendships, and ministries because it wasn't pulled up when it was small.