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Silent Killers Pt.3 Bitterness

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Silent Killers Pt.3 Bitterness

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Ruth 1:1, 3, 5-7,  19-21; 19 Now the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they had come to Bethlehem, that all the city was excited because of them; and the women said, “Is this Naomi?”

20 But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”


We are going to continue in the series I’m calling Silent Killers. Silent killers are the things that wound your soul, your heart, and if left unaddressed silently kill you from the inside out. The bible says “Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life”! Why is this important? 

Because internal conflicts will affect external realities! 

Bitterness is one of those things that if you do not identify and deal with will completely consume and destroy your life. Bitter people are very difficult to be around. They are toxic and the environment around them is toxic. 

As I was studying for this message it took a turn and went in a direction I wasn’t expecting, but I believe its The Lord so we are going to just go with it. If left unchecked, bitterness will affect your anointing and derail your Destiney. 

  • Anointing is a biblical word that is often misunderstood. In the modern church it is rarely if ever used. “That was an anointed song”, “That was an anointed word”, etc…
  • The word anointing simply means divine enablement. If you are anointed that means  God takes your natural ability and put His supernatural ability on it and causes you to be better than you really are.
  • The anointing makes the difficult look easy. 
  • There is a difference between a gift and anointing. A gift is something that God puts within a person, the anointing is something He puts on a person. 
  • The anointing is the difference between good and supernatural! Acts 10:38 “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
  • Every one of you have gifts, but not all are using those gifts under an anointing. 
  • There is a process to the anointing. Thats why prayer for someone else’s anointing doesn’t work! 
  • The anointing is a multiplier and an accelerator! 

    • The book of Ruth is a powerful picture of Redemption. In the midst of a famine left Bethlehem Judah and went to Moab (Bethlehem=Word or your devotional life and Judah = Praise) and everything starts dying. 

      • When you leave the environment you were intended to dwell in things start dying. When you leave the word and praise and go to the flesh what was intended to live die and what needs to die lives!
      • They were gone for 10 years and in v6 that “heard in the country of Moab that The Lord had visited His people by giving them bread.” So she decided to return to where she was from. 
      • V19-21 19 Now the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they had come to Bethlehem, that all the city was excited because of them; and the women said, “Is this Naomi?” 20 But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”
      • Mara means BITTER! Not I feel bitter, I am bitter. 
      • Whenever you start to feel something that is contrary to what the word says about you, you have to have a violent reaction to it!
      • Naomi means pleasant and delightful! God called her pleasant and delightful, but she calls herself bitter! 

        • There is a big difference between going through a bitter season and becoming bitter.

        • A bitter season will work for your good, but becoming bitter will destroy you. 
        • A bitter season will help you develop in your anointing, but becoming bitter will stop the anointing. You can’t be bitter and anointed at the same time. 
        • God had just taken then out of Egypt and the first thing He tells them to do is build a tabernacle for worship? Why? Because if your worship isn’t right, noting else will be right! 
        • Exodus 30:22 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 23 “Also take for yourself quality spices—five hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much sweet-smelling cinnamon (two hundred and fifty shekels), two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cane, 24 five hundred shekels of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hint of olive oil. 25 And you shall make from these a holy anointing oil, an ointment compounded according to the art of the perfumer. It shall be a holy anointing oil.
        • Naomi was so consumed with bitterness over the things of the past and her current condition that she can not see her future. 
        • In the end she will be breastfeeding a child that isn’t hers. God was about to bring a new thing out of an old thing! God brings life out of a dead situation!
        • The first ingredient in the anointing oil was myrrh. Myrrh means bitter. 
        • The perfumer would take the myrrh, the bitter and the sweet spices and mix them all together and what came out of it was a mixture that was so powerful the whatever it touched it changed! 
        • Some things that were natural in the old testament are spiritual in the New Testament. The OT is a type and shadow of the NT
        • What was an ingredient in the OT is a season in the NT. 
        • Because we have not been taught how God develops divine enablement, we don’t know how to respond to difficult times.
        • The anointing is a change agent. When an anointed person walked into an environment they have the ability to change it. The problem is that most Christians are not walking in an anointing so they don't change the environment, the environment changes them!
        • David was anointed to be King, but on his way to the throne the journey took him through the Cave of Adullam. Adullam means hiding place, but it also means place of the squeeze! Sometimes God will hide you in the place of the squeeze in order to squeeze everything of you thats not like him out… 
        • David changed the men around him instead of allowing them to change him! 
        • Jesus on His journey to the right hand of God had to go through the Garden of Gethsemane. Gethsemane means olive press! With every new level of anointing there has to be a squeezing! 
        • We’ve been taught anything good is God and anything bad is the devil… This is true, but sometimes we have difficulty discerning good from bad. 
          • Everything good comes from God and everything bad comes from the enemy. But we have to be careful that we discern a situation before we label a situation. 
          • A promotion that takes you away from your family and recks your marriage is not good and a betrayal that pushes you into your destiny is not bad! 
            •     ➡Jesus needed Judas to do his part. Judas propelled Jesus into fulfillment of His Destiney! 
            • Myrrh comes from a tree. Myrrh is not a fruit but a sap that flows from the trunk. The thing that makes the myrrh tree strange to scientists and biologists is that it has no particular season of bloom. No one knows when the sap is going to run. 
            • You can come by day and the tree if fine and the next it be dripping with sap!
            • Have you ever been walking through life, everything going great and the next day all hell brake loose!
            • A bitter season will hit all of a sudden! But you can that every time a bitter season hits, your anointing is about to go to another level! 
            • Every individual tree has its own process. I can’t give you my anointing because I can’t give you my process. “I want a double portion of your anointing”…  (You want me to pray for God to give you my anointing, ok. God, let every mentor that comes in their life betray or let them down. Cause people who declared to love them and be called to serve with them leave them and break their hearts… )
            • They agent of your bitter time does not know the agenda of The Lord. 


              • You can not allow the bitter season to distort your perspective.

              • 20 But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”
              • Don't call me by my position, call me by condition!
              • She was bitter with God!
              • Stop blaming God for the condition your decisions put you in!
              • You can not be bitter with God and anointed by God!
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