Bitterness & Forgiveness Bible Study What you will need to do this study: A willing heart to be open to how God will change your heart through this study A Bible or online Bible Notebook and a pen, or you can save to your desktop via word doc. A trusted friend. This can be someone you can actually talk to face to face, via the phone, through letters, or via online chat. This person can help you with memory verses, be there to discuss what you are going through as you do this study. This person does not have to do the study, but must be someone you trust to share the intimate details of your life with. If you are new to an area and do not have someone to fit this description...consider finding a women at your church who serves in a ministry role whom you could form this relationship with. Lessons one - four will focus on Bitterness…We will spend four weeks reading, listening, learning, praying and discussing while confronting bitterness. Bitterness may be something y...
Lesson/Week Two Maybe by now you’re thinking, are we really going to study bitterness for four weeks? Man I am tired of this already! Imagine bitterness dwelling in your heart for years… Ladies, this is something that I seriously struggle with. I have been able to say, “I forgive you.” But my heart is not letting go. That is the motivation behind doing this study, to really see bitterness for what it is. Then to really see what forgiveness is and to surrender myself and for you to surrender yourself to true forgiveness and freedom from this bitterness. Bitterness is a noun, a state of being bitter. The root word, bitter is an adjective. Adjectives tell how we do something (bitter); stinging, cutting, spiteful, rigorous; acrid, unpalatable. These are all unpleasant descriptive words. Quotes and Bible Reading (Please remember to read in context the verses below) “Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. B...
Lesson One/Week One Bitter, as Webster’s Dictionary puts it is and adjective meaning 1. having a sharp, unpleasant taste 2. causing or showing sorrow, pain, etc. 3. sharp and disagreeable; harsh 4. resentful; cynical. Bitterly is an adverb and bitterness is a noun. Bitterness is a state of being bitter. None of us want to continue to be in that state or dip our toes “into that pond”. This week we are going to explore some scriptures on the topic, read some thoughts by others and pray, pray, pray! This is not what I want my epitaph to say, “Elizabeth was a bitter woman who bitterly responded to otheres and found herself drowning in bitterness.” I would prefer that it said, “Elizabeth was a forgiven woman who mercifully granted forgiveness and found herself thanking God for His forgiveness towards her.” I image you wouldn’t want others to remember you as bitter or to think of you now as bitter. Or if you know someone who is deep in this state, you want to lovingly enco...
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