You are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity...!

Acts 8:21-23 NKJV

You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”

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Shalom! Day #341. Do you know that the scariest part of being a believer of Christ is not having a right heart attitude before God? Let's pray. Father, give us a clean hands, give us a pure heart, let us lift our hearts not to another but to You alone. Mold in us a right heart attitude towards You and one another. Forgive us for not having a right heart attitude before You. In Jesus name we ask and pray, amen!

I want to stress this matter as a believer and a servant of Christ to every believers.  Outwardly every believers seems to be growing spiritually and having a good life, but deep in their heart they are nurturing hatred, bitterness, bound with iniquity and feeling rejected by the community. Am I speaking to anyone today! And because of this we neither have a part nor a portion of whatever God has for us. If we neglect this things, it will later kill us. We will experience spiritual death, and eternal death. Bitterness, rejection, iniquity are like the cancerous cell. It is dangerous and not good for your spiritual living. Though we may be serving God, yet deep inside we having bitterness against one person or may be few. Rejection is another form of bitterness. Rejection is the beginning of bitterness and hatred. The feel of being rejected by certain group of people in the church, for example,  when you try to join the worship team and they rejected you because lack of experience and so on. It can grow to bitterness,  and at the end of the day we leave the church,  and go to another church and at that place we experience the same thing. No matter how many church you jump, if you never deal with it, you will always have the seed of rejection in you. Everybody wants to be accepted in one way or another.  The world may reject you, but Jesus accepts you! Be strong and deal with it. A right heart attitude begins when you deal with this things.

A right heart attitude, how to cultivate it?

1. Repent
⊙ repentance is the beginning of everything for our lives

-=> repentance is the beginning of restoration and healing. If today you are nurturing bitterness, hatred and bound by it, it's time for you and I to REPENT! This is to allow God to bring healing into our lives. Nobody wants to be rejected, and we do not choose for it, but when it happens the feeling of being rejected becomes bitterness and hatred.  And with that attitude we continue to serve God without dealing it. And there is always a feeling of not satisfied with the ministry and so on. Because they never deal with it.

2. Love.
⊙ many say, "I can forgive, but cannot forget."

-=> if you wholeheartedly forgive the people who caused the bitterness in your heart, then you should be able to forget what they have done. Because love covers a multitude of sins. Forgiving is not complete, if there in no LOVE involved in it. Let love bind us together, Colossians 3:14. Then you would be able to forget what they did.

Love is the basics of Jesus's teaching. Without love there is nothing. Having a right heart attitude as we serve the Lord,  enable us to have a portion of the things that the Lord has for us. So, how about you?

Let this day be the day of the Lord!

*** if you have any prayer request or any comments, or in anyway that I can serve today, please do let me know, I am at the Lord's service.

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