The POISON of ANGER!

[Coonskinner]

Originally Posted by Felicity

Anger is a killer and if not dealt with produces a harvest of bitterness. It's just not worth it to hold on to. Have to deal with it properly, process thoughts, feelings, emotions.....let go of the baggage as Bro. Mark Foster preached and demonstrated when at our church a couple weeks ago.

There's a right and wrong way to deal with it ... but it's in our power to do. Then you're able to reap a good harvest of righteousness and that will SHINE out of lives in everything we say and do. People recognize it even when we ourselves can't and they are awed by it!

Good for you Rhonda!

Much wisdom here too.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Let it go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quit feeding it and I promise it will die. Refuse to talk about it, refuse to meditate on it, refuse to nurse it, give it to Jesus He alone can mends the wounded spirits.

Life is toooooooooooooooooooooooooooo short to live angry and bitter.

The folks we are mad at are eating steaks, laughing and having a good time and could care less how they hurt us. The only person really hurt by our bitterness of the inability to let it go is us the hurt.

Ge up go to the ice cream shop get a banana split or chocolate fudge sundae
and find someone to laugh with and laugh until you laugh yourself silly.

EXCELLENT POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Let it go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quit feeding it and I promise it will die. Refuse to talk about it, refuse to meditate on it, refuse to nurse it, give it to Jesus He alone can mends the wounded spirits.

Life is toooooooooooooooooooooooooooo short to live angry and bitter.

The folks we are mad at are eating steaks, laughing and having a good time and could care less how they hurt us. The only person really hurt by our bitterness of the inability to let it go is us the hurt.

Ge up go to the ice cream shop get a banana split or chocolate fudge sundae
and find someone to laugh with and laugh until you laugh yourself silly.

LOL! So TRUE!!

[Falla39]

Originally Posted by Rhoni

Sis. Falla,

Great insight...God is indeed breaking up some fallow ground in me so good seed can be planted and grow there.

Love & Blessings, Rhoni

Sis. Rhoni,

Not only in you and I, and in many others, but in the world.

The world is the field! After seed is planted, there is a bursting

open. The seed bursts open. From this breaking, out comes the

blade, then the corn (good for food), then the full ear in the corn.

Mature corn (good for planting again) The mature corn looks like

the original kernel that was planted. He knows at what stage each of

us are in! He sees inside where we cannot!

May our Creator have His way in each of our hearts and lives, in

Jesus Name!!

Blessings,

Falla39

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Let it go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quit feeding it and I promise it will die. Refuse to talk about it, refuse to meditate on it, refuse to nurse it, give it to Jesus He alone can mends the wounded spirits.

Life is toooooooooooooooooooooooooooo short to live angry and bitter.

The folks we are mad at are eating steaks, laughing and having a good time and could care less how they hurt us. The only person really hurt by our bitterness of the inability to let it go is us the hurt.

Ge up go to the ice cream shop get a banana split or chocolate fudge sundae
and find someone to laugh with and laugh until you laugh yourself silly.

best advice I've heard...Ice cream here I come...

[RevDWW]

Here is the proper response to ill treatment:
Joesph speaking to his brothers.
Genesis 50:20 - 21 (KJV) 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

It's not enough to just forgive.............

Springs can be stifled and brought to stagnation. When waters stagnate it is because they flow no longer. When they no longer flow, they dry up. The mouth is the wellhead of all waters of the soul. It is there that they can be capped which will eventually effect the death of that spring. From the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. The power of life and death is in the tongue. It is with the tongue that fresh waters can be made to flow also, water of praise and waters of thanksgiving. Waters of rejoicing and waters of well being. The rudder is a small part of a very large vessel but like the tongue, it guides the course upon the seas.

Daily, we prophesy into our lives, not totally realizing what we are doing. When we speak negatively, we are prophesying and creating our world...a negative world without form and void. God said "Let it be...." After six days of speaking, he rested...from his creating. We are in a small way the very image of God with creative abilities speaking into and creating our own world. The world without form and void in confusion of many lives is what they created by speaking into it those words that formed their world.

This is the day that the Lord has made. We can rejoice in it by expressing that joy, creating a world of joy and happiness for ourselves. On the other hand, we can speak into our lives in this day that the Lord has made, sadness and gloom rather than rejoicing and being glad in it.

When the spirit of man is pressed down for so long, it will take flight from the body. Of course, you know what that is. It is death to the body. Therefore, life can be revitalized by uncapping the well spring of joy and happiness by the creative forces that you have within you, being made in the image of God.

I've heard people say, "I have nothing to live for." Often and quickly, those people are gone on into eternity with their remains left behind in a grave. Prophesy to YOURSELF. Prophesy GOOD to yourself. Speak your world into existence. Do like God did. Say, "Let it be...." You will soon see forces at work that will bring forth light...like right now. Then you can prophesy, "Let the light be divided from the darkness." It may not happen immediately, but that creative power will go to work and before long, you will begin to notice changes taking place.

You might remember once you had said something and I abrutly stopped you from saying what you were saying. We did not talk long enough for me to fully explain what I was talking about but this is it. You may have wondered why I stopped you. This is the reason. You have the power of life and death in the tongue.

OK, now let everone that will, pile on. Crazy stuff huh? Almost sounds like Hoo Doo. This is not mystical as some might lead you to believe but it is very real. Let God give you a vision of the world that he wants you to have. Now, start prophesying that world into existence, calling those things which ARE NOT as though THEY WERE. Let the weak say, "I AM STRONG." That is not lying or prophesying falsely, that is uncapping the wellhead of strengh and stiffling the waters of weakness. This is a good example.

I could speak for hours on this matter and only spoke of it briefly on another thread but it is something that many people should consider for thier own wellbeing.

Luv ya, sis. Ya know I do.

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by Brother Strange

Springs can be stifled and brought to stagnation. When waters stagnate it is because they flow no longer. When they no longer flow, they dry up. The mouth is the wellhead of all waters of the soul. It is there that they can be capped which will eventually effect the death of that spring. From the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. The power of life and death is in the tongue. It is with the tongue that fresh waters can be made to flow also, water of praise and waters of thanksgiving. Waters of rejoicing and waters of well being. The rudder is a small part of a very large vessel but like the tongue, it guides the course upon the seas.

Daily, we prophesy into our lives, not totally realizing what we are doing. When we speak negatively, we are prophesying and creating our world...a negative world without form and void. God said "Let it be...." After six days of speaking, he rested...from his creating. We are in a small way the very image of God with creative abilities speaking into and creating our own world. The world without form and void in confusion of many lives is what they created by speaking into it those words that formed their world.

This is the day that the Lord has made. We can rejoice in it by expressing that joy, creating a world of joy and happiness for ourselves. On the other hand, we can speak into our lives in this day that the Lord has made, sadness and gloom rather than rejoicing and being glad in it.

When the spirit of man is pressed down for so long, it will take flight from the body. Of course, you know what that is. It is death to the body. Therefore, life can be revitalized by uncapping the well spring of joy and happiness by the creative forces that you have within you, being made in the image of God.

I've heard people say, "I have nothing to live for." Often and quickly, those people are gone on into eternity with their remains left behind in a grave. Prophesy to YOURSELF. Prophesy GOOD to yourself. Speak your world into existence. Do like God did. Say, "Let it be...." You will soon see forces at work that will bring forth light...like right now. Then you can prophesy, "Let the light be divided from the darkness." It may not happen immediately, but that creative power will go to work and before long, you will begin to notice changes taking place.

You might remember once you had said something and I abrutly stopped you from saying what you were saying. We did not talk long enough for me to fully explain what I was talking about but this is it. You may have wondered why I stopped you. This is the reason. You have the power of life and death in the tongue.

OK, now let everone that will, pile on. Crazy stuff huh? Almost sounds like Hoo Doo. This is not mystical as some might lead you to believe but it is very real. Let God give you a vision of the world that he wants you to have. Now, start prophesying that world into existence, calling those things which ARE NOT as though THEY WERE. Let the weak say, "I AM STRONG." That is not lying or prophesying falsely, that is uncapping the wellhead of strengh and stiffling the waters of weakness. This is a good example.

I could speak for hours on this matter and only spoke of it briefly on another thread but it is something that many people should consider for thier own wellbeing.

Luv ya, sis. Ya know I do.

Bro. Strange,

As always, you speak wisdom. Because so many, not so positive things, have happened in a short space of time, I have become inwardly reflective and trying to weed out my faults and failures. I need to look through my Father's eyes and remind myself of who He says I am, and not what I think I am, or others think I am.

The Choleric/Melancholy in me will not stop me from striving for more, or trying to do more, or be more than I am...but I do thank God that He made me this way for a reason and I know He has a greater plan than even I can imagine.

Thank-you for your words of wisdom and counsel.

With love and respect, Sis. Rhonda

Rhoni,

You are unique having been given all the raw materials to make of yourself God's grandest vision for yourself. You've already done so much with your high academic accomplishment and professional accreditations. Few have attained so much under so great of adversities as you have. Though wounded from the battle, you can now elect to be weaker for it or you can chose to be stronger from it.

Speak LIFE.

[Subdued]

Originally Posted by Brother Strange

Springs can be stifled and brought to stagnation. When waters stagnate it is because they flow no longer. When they no longer flow, they dry up. The mouth is the wellhead of all waters of the soul. It is there that they can be capped which will eventually effect the death of that spring. From the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. The power of life and death is in the tongue. It is with the tongue that fresh waters can be made to flow also, water of praise and waters of thanksgiving. Waters of rejoicing and waters of well being. The rudder is a small part of a very large vessel but like the tongue, it guides the course upon the seas.

Daily, we prophesy into our lives, not totally realizing what we are doing. When we speak negatively, we are prophesying and creating our world...a negative world without form and void. God said "Let it be...." After six days of speaking, he rested...from his creating. We are in a small way the very image of God with creative abilities speaking into and creating our own world. The world without form and void in confusion of many lives is what they created by speaking into it those words that formed their world.

This is the day that the Lord has made. We can rejoice in it by expressing that joy, creating a world of joy and happiness for ourselves. On the other hand, we can speak into our lives in this day that the Lord has made, sadness and gloom rather than rejoicing and being glad in it.

When the spirit of man is pressed down for so long, it will take flight from the body. Of course, you know what that is. It is death to the body. Therefore, life can be revitalized by uncapping the well spring of joy and happiness by the creative forces that you have within you, being made in the image of God.

I've heard people say, "I have nothing to live for." Often and quickly, those people are gone on into eternity with their remains left behind in a grave. Prophesy to YOURSELF. Prophesy GOOD to yourself. Speak your world into existence. Do like God did. Say, "Let it be...." You will soon see forces at work that will bring forth light...like right now. Then you can prophesy, "Let the light be divided from the darkness." It may not happen immediately, but that creative power will go to work and before long, you will begin to notice changes taking place.

You might remember once you had said something and I abrutly stopped you from saying what you were saying. We did not talk long enough for me to fully explain what I was talking about but this is it. You may have wondered why I stopped you. This is the reason. You have the power of life and death in the tongue.

OK, now let everone that will, pile on. Crazy stuff huh? Almost sounds like Hoo Doo. This is not mystical as some might lead you to believe but it is very real. Let God give you a vision of the world that he wants you to have. Now, start prophesying that world into existence, calling those things which ARE NOT as though THEY WERE. Let the weak say, "I AM STRONG." That is not lying or prophesying falsely, that is uncapping the wellhead of strengh and stiffling the waters of weakness. This is a good example.

I could speak for hours on this matter and only spoke of it briefly on another thread but it is something that many people should consider for thier own wellbeing.

Luv ya, sis. Ya know I do.

Wow! What an excellent post!! I completely believe this, and am learning it to be true!!