Thoughts and Considerations

                                       16 – BITTERNESS AND RESENTMENTS                 These eat away like a cancer and defile everything they contact.    “…lest and root of bitterness        springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.” Hebrews 12:15             Being forced, or feeling forced into unwanted situations, bearing injustices or assumed injustices        can end in bitterness and resentments. Disagreements and unaccepted or rejected values also will breed        hostility and even hate. This is common in political arenas. “Hope deferred makes the heart sick,...

                                     GOING AFTER CONTRIBUTING FACTORS                                      1A    -    THE LACK OF GREAT UNDERSTANDING!   Again I want to emphasize that what I am putting forth in all these lessons are merely helps at best. There are not magic formulas. The only true help and deliverances came by the faith in the Work of the Lord Jesus Christ which He accomplished for us on the cross. As He said, without Him we can do nothing! “He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he that is hasty in spirit exalts folly.” Proverbs 14:29   For now we see through the glass dark...

                                15 – EXAGGERATED OR MISPLACED VALUES         “A false balance is an abomination to the Lord:” Proverbs 11:1       “…for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law,           judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone…          which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” Matthew 23:23-24        "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a          time to die....a time for war, and a time for peace." Ecclesiastes 3:1-8         "Let your mode...