Breaking the Chains of Bitterness

Summary:
Bitterness is a silent thief—it creeps into our hearts, often unnoticed, and slowly robs us of peace, joy, and spiritual clarity. In this episode of The Higher Pursuit Podcast, host Cecily Lachapelle opens up about her own journey with bitterness and the healing she found through Christ. She unpacks how bitterness can take root in unresolved pain and how it distorts our relationships, our faith, and our view of God. But the good news is this: Jesus has the power to uproot bitterness and restore what was lost. If you’ve been holding on to hurt, offense, or disappointment, this episode is a call to surrender it to God, embrace forgiveness, and step into the freedom He offers.

Takeaways:

• If pain isn’t repurposed, it becomes poison—leading to deeper wounds and spiritual stagnation.
• Bitterness corrodes our joy, peace, and intimacy with God and others.
• Holding on to anger or offense creates openings for the enemy to influence our lives.
• Forgiveness isn’t optional—it’s a command and a pathway to freedom.
  Trusting God fully is the only way to release bitterness and walk in healing.

Reflection Question:

Is there a hurt, offense, or disappointment I’ve been carrying that may have turned into bitterness? Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal any hidden places of resentment in your heart—and be willing to surrender them to God so He can bring healing and peace.

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Bitterness

06:05 Personal Experiences with Bitterness

12:11 Recognizing the Signs of Bitterness

17:54 The Role of Forgiveness

24:09 The Importance of Intimacy with God

29:54 Practical Steps to Overcome Bitterness

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Bitterness
• 6:05 Personal Experiences with Bitterness
• 12:11 Recognizing the Signs of Bitterness
• 17:54 The Role of Forgiveness
• 24:09 The Importance of Intimacy with God

Transcript

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Hi everyone and welcome back to the Higher Pursuit Podcast. I'm your host, Cecily Lachapelle and it's great to be connecting with you again, where we're gonna navigate some of the deeper issues of the heart and explore how God's truth can bring healing and help us repurpose our pain. Today we're gonna be talking about something that can actually subtly impact our lives, often without us fully realizing its grip, and that is bitterness.

Have you ever noticed a persistent undercurrent of negativity, a lingering resentment that maybe seems to color your perspective, making you see everything through criticism or judgment, feeling like a victim, or perhaps an anger that just doesn't quite dissipate, makes you fly off the handle, have a short fuse, or a sadness?

that just feels stubbornly attached. These emotions, while they're a natural part of our human existence and experience, can sometimes intertwine the anger and the sadness and take root in a way that hinders our joy and our connection with God. So in this episode, we're gonna draw from a recent exploration that I did into repurposing the pain of bitterness.

and it sheds some light on the dynamics of bitterness. Think of bitterness as a trap, a subtle trap, and it's baited with two very powerful human emotions, anger and sadness. And when these two powerful emotions combine, especially when they're mixed with other toxic feelings like jealousy, envy, pride, fear,

or rejection, then we find ourselves unexpectedly caught in its snare. I mean, folks, think about a trap. A trap doesn't work if it's obvious to either the animal getting trapped or a person getting trapped. So Satan in our lives has to use things that are valid, hurts and wounds that feel justifiable and are justifiable to feel for us to feel

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anger and sadness. But instead of us repurposing that pain properly, when we don't, we are caught in a trap without realizing it. Because bitterness isn't just a fleeting feeling. It can be more accurately defined and described as a corrosive force that if left unaddressed can erode the very foundations of everything that we value.

It will erode our peace. It will erode the zeal we have for the Lord. It will put our fire out. And while it might present a facade of strength or control, the true nature of bitterness is that it is a predator, silently affecting our minds, our bodies, and most significantly our souls.

It gradually diminishes our faith, it diminishes our hope, it steals our joy, it leads to both physical and emotional distress. So that's why I believe that understanding and actively dealing with bitterness is a crucial aspect of our spiritual journey. And many of us don't even look into this. From a Christian perspective, it can create an unwelcome opening in the spirit realm.

to spirits of darkness and spirits of bitterness. Now, some of you might question the idea of negative spiritual influence in the lives of believers, but listen to these words of the apostle Paul in Ephesians 4:26, 27, where he says, "Be angry and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your anger and give no opportunity to the devil."

So Paul is cautioning us that unresolved anger can provide a foothold for the adversary and bitterness in its prolonged and unaddressed state certainly fits that description. So for any of you who question if demons can oppress or harass Christians, that scripture right there shows that bitterness opens the door to the enemy.

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and we have to resist him and make him flee.

I want to share a personal experience that illustrates this dynamic. During a particularly challenging period in my life that was marked by a series of hurts and pain, like betrayal in my marriage, a divorce, huge financial strain, and the complexities of blending a large family, I faced a rapid succession.

painful events. Each challenge individually, all by itself was significant. But in my heart and life, the cumulative, but in my heart, their cumulative effect left me little time to process and truly repurpose the hurt. And let me just stop and say, I did not repurpose the hurt.

as each one of those painful events happened in my life. What I should have done is I should have stopped and repurposed that pain until I knew that every single little rootlet of bitterness had been dealt with. But what the enemy's scheme for my life was to keep those things coming, slam, slam, slam. Have you ever been in a season of your life

where you feel like you can't catch a break. It is just one painful event after another, a betrayal after a rejection, after a financial setback, after an attack, after a loss. That was the season of my life. And the unresolved emotions began to linger in me, creating a toxic inner environment. I correlated to leaving leftovers in the refrigerator.

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If you made a delicious meal, for instance, I love salmon. And so a lot of times I will make more salmon than I need for dinner because I'm thinking my husband and I can take this for the next day's lunch or we can have it the next night for dinner. And sometimes we're just not in the mood to eat that. So it stays in the refrigerator. Now imagine if this salmon that I made gets

behind other food in my refrigerator and stays there for a couple weeks. It is going to begin to stink and it's going to begin to smell up the entire refrigerator and if I don't find it, deal with it and clean it out, it eventually is going to make my entire home stink. And that's what happens when we allow the toxic emotions of bitterness, the anger and the sadness and all of the other

toxic emotions that come with bitterness to linger unresolved and not repurposed, not cleaned out of our heart. It will eventually not just stink up our heart, but it's going to start coming out. That toxicity is going to begin to be exude. That toxicity is going to exude from us and poison

everything we do and say and see. Folks, the enemy of our souls often uses genuine pain and trauma as a means... The enemy of our souls uses genuine pain and trauma as a means to wound us. These wounds can make us susceptible to bitterness, which if not confronted, as I just showed you, can solidify...

into a spiritual stronghold. For clarity, a stronghold in this context refers to entrenched, unmanaged patterns of thought. Let me say that again. A stronghold in this context refers to entrenched, unmanaged patterns of thought. Scripture reminds us that Satan prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour, and that he has strategies aimed

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at your destruction, my destruction, according to 1 Peter 5:8 and 2 Corinthians 2:11. We're encouraged not to be ignorant of his devices. So ignoring his devices is definitely being ignorant of his devices. Furthermore, the Bible connects a heart full of bitterness with being captive to sin. In Acts chapter eight, Simon the sorcerer is a new believer.

and he's following Peter around. And Peter rebukes him and says to him, I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin. This highlights the spiritual bondage that bitterness can create. And it's my conviction that bitterness uniquely opens the door to negative spiritual activity in the life of a believer. We can no longer afford to overlook this. My friends, if you're tuning into this podcast,

Perhaps it's because you sense a stirring within you and a desire to break free from the weight of past hurts and step into the freedom and the godly character that Christ offers.

The process of repurposing bitterness is not always easy. It can feel like a deep work within us, and at times it might even feel like we're letting go of a part of ourselves. It requires commitment and a consistent partnership with the Holy Spirit, especially if these roots have been allowed to go down deep. However, I can attest that it is profoundly

important and it is a massively liberating work both emotionally and spiritually where bitterness seeks to consume us until nothing good remains. Jesus desires to fill us until we are overwhelmingly aware of his goodness. So what exactly is bitterness? Well, it's essentially the accumulation of those unresolved emotions

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stemming from pain that we haven't processed in a godly way. Perhaps the hurt occurred during a time when we lacked the emotional maturity to deal with it, like maybe back in your childhood. Or maybe we simply just weren't aware that these feelings didn't have to take permanent residence in our hearts. Maybe we had never been taught that bitterness doesn't belong.

in the life, the heart, the mind, the mouth of the believer. Well, regardless of the cause and regardless of how bitterness got here or how it has stayed, this destructive emotional state results from toxic emotions evolving from the temporary experience into a deep seeded belief, eventually becoming a consistent and constant and seething presence.

And that's why I say that this is such a big daddy of emotional issues that we have to focus on and we have to do the work of repurposing this pain. By the time I recognized the extent to which bitterness had taken a hold in my own life, I was experiencing many of its common indicators. For instance, I found myself becoming irritated a lot.

and quickly reacting on a scale of 1 to 10, reacting at an eight to something that should have been a two, reacting in a way that ordinarily was not my nature. My mind would often return to negative feelings towards those involved in my pain, replaying scenarios, engaging in internal arguments.

and feeling a sense of helplessness and anger. Have you ever done that? Have you had an episode where something happened and you felt like a victim, but you just couldn't address the situation or the person? Either they weren't open to dialogue or there simply was no recourse for you to go back and change what had happened. And your mind cannot stop looping.

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cannot stop replaying what happened. And the only thing you can do in your mind to somehow feel like you're gaining control and snapping yourself out of this victim place is to engage in these internal discussions. But does that help? Does it fix anything? No, it doesn't. I've had so many arguments with people in the shower and I'm all bold and I'm telling them this, that, and the other thing.

It's not a real conversation. It's not moving me forward. It's just getting me all worked up in anger before I even leave the house for the day. And during this season when I realized that bitterness had a hold on me, I even began to question whether true and lasting happiness was even still possible for me. I wrestled with the goodness of God in the face of my experiences and I harbored a significant

grudge against those who had caused me pain and loss. And this was a persistent, gnawing feeling. It was stealing my ability to pray in faith. It was stealing my ability to worship the Lord. It was stealing my ability to feel joy, even in the presence of the Lord. I could be in a church service and see people rejoicing and happy. And I looked at them thinking,

Will that ever be me again? Every encounter or even thought about the people who had hurt me would trigger a sharp, really unpleasant reaction within me. If I even heard of blessings in their lives, I struggled to reconcile that with the pain that they'd inflicted on me. And despite my best efforts, negative thoughts related to these hurts were constant.

couldn't drive in the car without music on. I couldn't walk into my home without turning on the television, trying to keep the noise at bay by creating other noise in my mind. But it didn't work because the negativity was there. And the second I was alone with my thoughts, it would come barreling in. And perhaps the most concerning part was my connection

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the tangible presence of the Lord. My worship was less intimate. The closeness I once had just seemed to fade. And that's what really scared me. So reflect on the things I talked about, those signs and symptoms that I was experiencing. Have any of them resonated with you? Have you experienced any of that?

What situations have triggered similar feelings with you?

Allow the Holy Spirit to gently illuminate any areas where bitterness, Allow the Holy Spirit to gently illuminate areas where bitterness may have taken root.

Now, let's turn our attention to the path of healing and freedom. How do we begin to uproot this bitterness and cultivate godly character in its place? While it might seem like a significant challenge, we can take to truth. While it might seem like a really big challenge, a steep mountain, we can take heart.

in the truth of Philippians 2.13. For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Think about that. God has promised that He'll do the hard work if you will just turn to him with humility, with honesty, with vulnerability and repentance. Because even though

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What was done to you was wrong. Your response to it by allowing bitterness to take root in your heart was sin. And I know that's a hard word, but two wrongs do not make a right. If we are willing to acknowledge where we're struggling and follow the Lord's guidance, we can move on from the bondage of bitterness into freedom and spiritual growth.

We can find freedom. We can resist the enemy and watch him flee. We can repurpose that pain into the godly character that Jesus died for us to have. He tells us, Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:9 blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God. However, we can't give what we don't possess. What does it truly mean?

to be a peacemaker when you're dealing with bitterness. Jesus elaborates further in Matthew 5, 43 and 48, urging us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. Holy moly, that's such a hard thing to do. But I am telling you, my friends, it was not until I decided to do that, until I decided to pray

for those who had hurt me, that I could finally be free. This radical love, which reflects the love of our Father in heaven, transcends our natural instincts, our natural inclinations. It involves releasing the people who have hurt us, who have wounded us, offering forgiveness

and allowing our heart to be free. Now, just as a quick side note, I wanna say this about forgiveness. What is forgiveness? Forgiveness is saying that what that person did was wrong. It does not mean what they did to you does not require justice.

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It does not mean there was no debt. It doesn't mean that it was not sinful or wrong or painful. Maybe what they did wasn't sin in sin sense. It doesn't mean what they did to you was not painful. Of course it was. But it just means you recognize that Jesus not just paid the debt for your sin, He paid the debt.

for theirs as well. And you release them to God's justice. And you take your hands off the gavel and say, I won't be the judge. Forgiveness is not allowing someone to come back in and repeatedly hurt you. Forgiveness is not the same as trust. And forgiveness is not the same as

Lack of boundaries. Forgiveness is a justice word. It means there was a debt that you are allowing Jesus to pay. But it doesn't mean you allow them to continue to walk over you.

Romans 12, 18 to 21 reinforces our call to peace. It says, possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God or to the justice of God. For it is written, vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. So God is the judge. And when we forgive someone, we say, Lord,

I'm taking this justice out of my hands and I'm putting it in yours because you are the only one worthy to judge in this situation. But to the contrary, if your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink for by so doing, you'll heap burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good. Often we mistakenly believe that

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by withholding forgiveness, we're somehow ensuring justice. But vengeance belongs to the Lord, justice belongs to the Lord. Our role is to step into forgiveness, mercy, love, generosity. The more we embody the character of Christ, the more we allow His light to shine, potentially even softening the hearts of those who oppose us. But even if our

Forgiveness does not soften the heart of those who oppose us. It softens our heart. It keeps our heart tender before the Lord. And it keeps us connected to the lifeline of the Holy Spirit of God. Bitterness on the other hand, creates a barrier, hindering our ability to be connected to Jesus ourselves, but also hindering our ability to draw others to Jesus.

regardless of our theological understanding. True intimacy with Jesus, a humble fellowship with the Son of God is what truly transforms us and enables us to reflect His love to the world. And when we allow a root of bitterness into the garden of our heart, it's only a matter of time before that root chokes the life of God in us.

chokes our ability to fellowship with the presence of the Lord.

Now consider Jesus' encounter with Saul on the road to Damascus. What did he say to Saul? He said, why do you persecute me? Jesus identifies so closely with his church, his bride, that an attack on a believer is an attack on him. As His bride, we don't need to demand retribution. Our bridegroom is a powerful

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protector. You can trust him that he's got you. You can trust him and don't let bitterness separate you from your bridegroom. Let your bridegroom protect you. I've heard accounts of individuals who have had profound spiritual experiences and a recurring theme is the presence of deep bitterness and unforgiveness in places of suffering.

And this underscores a significant spiritual danger of harboring these emotions.

I remember a testimony of a minister who overcame a difficult past and he now leads a ministry of healing and deliverance. And he shared that bitterness and unforgiveness were entry points in his life for negative spiritual influences, sometimes leading him and other individuals down paths of deception and harmful practices in a deceived attempt.

to gain control in response to past powerlessness.

That is nothing more than a spirit of witchcraft. The Bible tells us that control is a spirit of witchcraft. And when we use bitterness as a way to control our own lives, to try to protect ourselves, but also to control other people, we open that door. This highlights a critical juncture for believers. This is a crossroads. While we too experience soul wounds from feeling powerless,

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Our response should not be to seek control through worldly or negative means. No, we're called to gentleness, to mercy, to turning the other cheek, to praying for our enemies, loving the unlovely. Jesus said, if someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to him the other. If he demands your coat, offer him your cloak as well. If he makes you...

Walk One Mile offered a walk too. We're called to forgive others as Christ forgave us.

But let's be clear on what this does not entail. Forgiveness does not mean condoning harmful behavior or inviting those who have hurt us back into our lives to inflict further pain. Trust and reconciliation are distinct from forgiveness. The actions committed may still be wrong and deserving of consequences.

But forgiveness is about releasing ourselves from the role of judge, jury, and executioner. It's about extricating ourselves from God's process of correction and allowing him to work in his way and in his timing. We have enough to contend with within our own hearts, don't you think? I if we truly grasped the ease with which we can grieve the Holy Spirit,

I think we'd be more inclined to humility and repentance. Someone deeply aware of their need for God's mercy is way less likely to hold grudges and stand in judgment of other people. So how do we actively dismantle these strongholds of bitterness? Well, Proverbs 3, 5 to 6 offers a powerful guide. First of all, it says, trust in the Lord with all your heart.

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and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He will make your path straight. So first, trust in the Lord with all your heart. When we've experienced hurt, betrayal, or abuse, our human minds can easily question God's love and goodness. We might think, if He truly cared, He would have prevented this pain.

But this perspective is based on our limited understanding. God possesses a perfect, infinite, and all-knowing perspective. He sees the depths of every heart. He sees our future and all the good plans that he has for us. So when we allow judgment against God to take root, we align ourselves with the accuser, Satan. God has demonstrated

His goodness through the sacrifice of Jesus, offering us salvation and reconciliation. His nature is consistently good and unchanging. And if you struggle to believe in God's goodness toward you, I encourage you to seek out scriptures that declare His character and talk to you and reveal to you God's faithfulness. If you've harbored bitterness toward God, take time to confess this to Him.

Okay, second, the scripture tells us, lean not on your own understanding. My friends, when we feel threatened, our brains naturally engage in a fight or flight response, don't they? But our immediate instincts often don't align with God's ways. This part of the verse advises us to rely on God's wisdom during those difficult times, rather than solely on our limited human perspective.

That leads us down destructive paths. Finding peace with God and others requires us to align ourselves with God's ways, even when they differ from our own. Interestingly, there's also a psychological aspect to this. Dr. Caroline Leaf, a neuroscientist, explains how our brains create connections between memories and emotions.

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during traumatic experiences. So every time we revisit those memories, these neural connections strengthen. However, when we intentionally choose not to dwell on negative events, those connections begin to weaken, becoming malleable and capable of being rewired. Philippians 4.8 instructs us to focus on what is true, noble, right, pure.

lovely, admirable, excellent, and praiseworthy. My friends, this isn't just good advice. This is actually a neuroscientific and practical way to rewire our brains, detaching the neural pathways that perpetuate bitterness and create new pathways that lead to peace and to actual joy. Okay, so the third instruction.

from Proverbs is, In all your ways, acknowledge Him. I love this line because the Hebrew word for acknowledge is the word yada, which speaks of deep intimacy and knowing. Think of the intentionality involved in getting to know someone deeply. That is the kind of intimacy that we need to be cultivating with God. And when we pursue knowing God in this way,

our awareness of his thoughts, of his ways, of his movement in our lives is increased. When you get to know someone, you know how they think. You can finish their sentences. And we become more attuned to anything within us by getting to know God.

By getting to know God, we become more attuned to anything within us that is not in alignment with His Spirit. And we can address it and grab ahold of that and change it much more quickly and easily. Finally, God promises that He will make our paths straight. For God to straighten our paths, He often needs to bring correction and alignment.

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to our misdirected thoughts and motivations. This process, while it eventually leads to freedom and a much better destination, can sometimes feel uncomfortable as our desires and our flesh are confronted. But remember, God is not breaking us. Jesus was already broken for us on the cross.

It's about God breaking off of us everything that seeks to steal our hearts and keep us imprisoned. Laying down our right to anger or hold on to judgment can feel challenging. It can feel like you're being tied down to train tracks and here comes the oncoming train, but the path of bitterness is never the right one.

As we conclude this episode, I want to address a particularly subtle and damaging form of bitterness, and that's bitterness that we hold against ourselves. My friends, I have personally grappled with this. It can manifest as persistent feelings of oppression, anxiety, and a restless striving that never seems to be satisfied.

It's a quiet form of self-condemnation that steals our joy and peace. Have you ever experienced this personally directed bitterness, bitter disappointment with yourself, harsh self-judgment, bitter regret, or crippling self-doubt? If God doesn't view us through these bitter lenses, why should we? It ultimately leads to misery and stagnation.

It doesn't help us at all. But many of us either grew up in homes where there was a lot of criticism, there was a lot of judgment, or we had authority figures or coaches or teachers who constantly criticized us or judged us or spoke negatively to us. And we have adopted that way of speaking to ourselves. We actually believe that

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the self judgment, the bitter regret, the crippling self doubt, that somehow it's making us a better person. It's not. And what about bitterness towards others? Have you been wounded by someone else's sin that left a root of bitterness in your soul? Or perhaps have you harbored bitterness toward God for a painful situation or loss?

Can you recognize now how those difficult experiences might have created a wound that is festered into bitterness? It is crucial to understand that bitterness is not a passive emotion that will simply fade away. It is a snare designed by the enemy to lead you into destruction. Often, while you are able to maintain an outward appearance of

Spiritual wellbeing. My friends, it is time for us to take this seriously and actively engage in the work of repurposing this pain into the freedom and godly character that Jesus purchased for us.

So I have a call to action for you today. I want to encourage you to take some time for introspection and prayer. It doesn't have to be a lot of time, but still your heart in the presence of the Lord. Consider the questions that I just asked and all of the things that we've been talking about this podcast and ask yourself, where might bitterness be subtly influencing my heart?

take a moment to be real and vulnerable and bring these feelings to the Lord. For me, I usually do that in a journal because then I have a written record that I have addressed this. And when the enemy wants to come back and accuse me and tell me that he has a right to be there and to return those feelings of bitterness to me, I can actually go back to a journal entry and say, no.

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I confessed my bitterness toward this person or toward this situation on this date, and I put this under the blood. So you have absolutely no legal right to condemn me or to make me go back down a path that I have disavowed. And as we close, I just want you to remember the power that you have in Jesus Christ. Jesus said that he was manifested to destroy the works of the enemy, and he did.

The power of darkness has been defeated by his blood and his resurrection. So when you remember him, you can break strongholds. When you speak in the name of Jesus and when you claim the power and the cleansing and the authority of the blood of Jesus, you break strongholds in the heavenlies and they cannot be resurrected without your permission. So you can continue to stand and say, I have broken this.

This has no more authority in my life. And I encourage you this week to continue your journey of self-examination with the Holy Spirit. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal any hidden bitterness within you. He says that he brings all the hidden things to the light. Confess it to him and forgive those against whom you have held resentment, including yourself.

Release the burden and allow God to become the righteous judge. Decree healing over those wounds that bitterness has created. And finally, ask the Lord to fill the hole that bitterness was holding in your heart.

to fill that hole with his love, with his joy, with his freedom, with his peace. Say to the Lord, Holy Spirit, as I release this bitterness to you, what do you want to give me in return? And let him tell you what precious gift he wants to give to you. Remember, friends,

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Whom the sun sets free is free indeed. Let's press into that freedom, allowing the love and the healing and the power of Jesus to pull up and uproot every rootlet and trace of bitterness and cultivate a garden of peace and joy within our hearts.

Well, thank you so much for joining me today on the Higher Pursuit Podcast. May God's grace and peace be with you as you continue to repurpose your pain and walk in the fullness of His love. Until our next conversation, be blessed.