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...
Week 9 Day 1 This is our last time to read the entire passage. ☹ Go back to Week 1 Day 1 and consider the things you wrote for these questions In looking at this text as a whole what strikes you? Or stands out? What still confuses you? Is there any part that seems odd, or out of place? Have any of those been cleared up as you’ve chewed on these verses for the past 2 months? If you had to pick a favorite verse or group of verses what would it be? Why? Week 9 Day 2 Matt 7:15-20 Do these verses contradict what Jesus commanded in Matt 7:1-5? Here Jesus goes back to outward vs inward comparisons. What does He describe false prophets as? According to vs 16 how do you know a false prophet? Leaning on basic truths of biology, how can you tell a tree is an apple tree? A peach tree? What is the ultimate end to a tree that does not bear good fruit? What does Jesus say ab...
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