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Anger & Bitterness - anonymous1 - 07-20-2022 08:39 PM
Please pray that I will be set free from anger and bitterness that I feel toward a group of people that did many very hateful things to me. Please pray that I will no longer harbor unforgiveness toward them.
RE: Anger & Bitterness - Guest - 07-21-2022 07:04 AM
anonymous1 I've been in situations similar to yours and it has hurt me to the point that still years later it has made me physically sick. First it was with my family all my life specially my mother telling me, she didn't love me and having my father punish me with the belt for the bad things my sister would do. Then some of the women in the churches I've tried to worship in. They were jealous of me when they befriended me to see how talented I was in making my own clothing, doing my own hair I never go to have it done, I even colored it myself when I was younger, cooking, knitting, crocheting, count cross needlepoint, and oil painting by sketching it first.
I never bragged about the talents God has given me, which at different times in my life helped me make money from home while I raised my children, plus always my home was unclutter and clean, my children too. But the enemy tried to discourage me by using people to attack me. I prayed for years for God to take away my hurt and nothing. Then one day as I was reading the bible and asking God why do people I love and those I consider friends hurt me so much? One day after I had prayed I opened the bible, the first verse my eyes went to was "The Lord's Prayer." I had never seen so clearly the part where it says, forgive our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. I felt like a voice telling me unless you forgive them I can't forgive you. I went on my knees and asked God to help me love my enemies as he loves me, for I on my own can't do it. I felt like someone was also telling me forgive them, but you don't have to stay and take the abuse. Just walk away to where you will be accepted as Christ accept us. I did that and never looked back, for the exception of my family for even with the abuse I still loved them. It took thirty more years before I realized now as an old lady that they will never change, so I had to walk away from them too in other for the abuse to stop. I live with a clean conscious knowing I did my best and I have forgiven them, but I can't change the way they are, and I don't have to stay and keep taking abuse from anyone. I as a child of God need to have piece in my life and happiness just like anyone else. I'm happier now and I serve the Lord with people who are kind and not jealous or judgmental. Those kind of people will pull you down spiritual and mentally and they keep on going like nothing. I just pray for them when ever I run into people like that, and ask God to help me to forgive them as he would and I walk away from them.
Lord help anonymous1 to be forgiving but not resentful, and to just move on to greener grass where they can be accepted as they are. Lord don't let anonymous1 become sick like it has made me when I became resentful and was finding it difficult to forgive them. May anonymous1 just leave them in your hands and to remember you love us just as we are, and you are working differently in each one of us. Lord please come to anonymous1 help in this matter as you helped me. I pray in the mighty and merciful name of Jesus Christ, our only real Lord and Savior. Amen!