The POISON of ANGER!
 

Psalm 90:7 (KJV)
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Psalm 90:11 (KJV)
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Psalm 103:8-9 (KJV)
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. [9] He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
Psalm 106:29 (KJV)
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
Psalm 145:8 (KJV)
The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
Proverbs 15:1 (KJV)
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 15:18 (KJV)
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Proverbs 16:32 (KJV)
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Proverbs 19:11 (KJV)
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Proverbs 20:2 (KJV)
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
Proverbs 21:14 (KJV)
A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Proverbs 22:8 (KJV)
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Proverbs 27:4 (KJV)
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Eccles. 7:9 (KJV)
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Pastor James Kilgore, Jr. Has been speaking on a series of lessons that I just got a small taste of while visiting life tabernacle this past weekend, but it started me thinking...

Dear AFF'ers,

The mind think of Anger is: "You owe Me". For the past 8-10 months I have been filled with so much anger that I have sabatogued many areas of my life. I felt like I had given of myself spiritually, physically, emotionally, and financially until there was nothing left for me to give and I thought that now it was my turn to receive. You know, the law of reaping and sowing...I have sowed and now I proclaimed it was time to reap. But nobody was cooperating.

Since Genesis when Cain slew his brother Able out of anger until today when anger causes strife, murder, dissention, and offese...anger is a terrible thing. It infects the person and all those around them.

Today I am proclaiming freedom from the anger that has poisoned my mind, heart, and life and give it over to Christ. I am confessing for accountability and because I need to. If I have poured my anger out onto anyone in this forum I apologize and ask that you forgive me, and please pray for me as I realign myself to God's character.

Humbly, Sis. Rhonda R. Cyprus

Rhoni,

Good post. Anger is something that would very easly get hold of any of us.
I spoke on Joy a few weeks ago and said that of all the fruit Joy is the fruit
most easly lost, usually due to anger.

God Bless ya today & anyone else who is trying to let loose of anger, and get more Joy into their life!:thumbsup

OK, I am with you!

PS:::::


The name of your Place should be called: "Cyprus Counseling" with a silhouette of a tree as an emblem.

The POISON of ANGER
 

What an insightful thought!

Sometimes we have to get below the surface to find the real cause

(root of bitterness, anger, etc.) of the problem. I believe Someone has

been digging and pruning around the trees in His vineyard. Sis. Nona

Freeman said she studied what "fallow ground" meant and she found it

meant, plowed ground, but not yet planted. I found two verses relating

to fallow ground. Jeremiah 4:3, and Hosea 10:12. Jeremiah seems to say

that we need to break up our fallow ground and get the thorns out before

we sow, as the thorns can hinder the groweth of the good seed. In the

parable of the sower, in Matt.13:7, some seed fell among thorns and the

thorns sprang up, and choked them. Why does it seem the weeds and

the thorns grow faster than the plants intended for harvest! Jeremiah

tells us to break up the fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. Hosea

tells us to sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up

your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain

righteousness upon you. I believe this is a picture of repentance and then

getting the seed (Word of God) firmly planted in our hearts, and when

the seed bed of our hearts is prepared, there will come up a crop of good

"grain". Good for food and some good for re-planting (seed-grain). You will

need kernels matured like the ones planted in the ground, in order for there

to be another crop. Seed grain. Mature grain (seed). The crop (people)

in the earth today are what was planted in their lineage (seed) yesteryear.

Someone is watchng and following me. What I am (not what I think I am)

or what someone thinks I am, but what I really am, the harvest of those who

will follow me, will reveal what kind of a tree I really was. I pray God will

reveal the thorns so that they can be removed, and not overgrow the good

seed that has been planted through the years of my life. If the thorns are

allowed to crowd out the good seed, what will I have to show when the

Lord calls for an accountability of what my life has yielded or not yielded!

My, where did all that come from. It came from my heart. I just did not

know it was there. Jesus on the inside, working on outside, O what a

change in my life!! Lord, please keep working deep inside and if there be

any wicked way in me, I pray You will reveal it so I can remove it. I must

be willing to remove it and give it to You!! Thank You, Lord Jesus, for Your

abundant mercy and grace to us who are becoming Your sons and daughters.

Formed into Your image!! It will be revealed if we really are Your sons and

daughters, because when You have finished with us, we will look just like

our FATHER!!! After all, we came from your "seed", The Word of God!!!JESUS!!

He was that "seed" promised to Abraham that in his seed all the nations of

the earth would be blessed. That "Seed" is still producing after His kind!

Blessings,

Falla39

Sis. Falla,

Great insight...God is indeed breaking up some fallow ground in me so good seed can be planted and grow there.

Love & Blessings, Rhoni

Anger is a killer and if not dealt with produces a harvest of bitterness. It's just not worth it to hold on to. Have to deal with it properly, process thoughts, feelings, emotions.....let go of the baggage as Bro. Mark Foster preached and demonstrated when at our church a couple weeks ago.

There's a right and wrong way to deal with it ... but it's in our power to do. Then you're able to reap a good harvest of righteousness and that will SHINE out of lives in everything we say and do. People recognize it even when we ourselves can't and they are awed by it!

Good for you Rhonda! :)

Pray for me cuz it hurts:sad

Blessings, Rhonda

Rhoni,

This seems more like a beating of yourself than a confession in the hopes to get your own attention. Don't turn that anger on yourself!;)

Let it go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quit feeding it and I promise it will die. Refuse to talk about it, refuse to meditate on it, refuse to nurse it, give it to Jesus He alone can mends the wounded spirits.

Life is toooooooooooooooooooooooooooo short to live angry and bitter.

The folks we are mad at are eating steaks, laughing and having a good time and could care less how they hurt us. The only person really hurt by our bitterness of the inability to let it go is us the hurt.

Ge up go to the ice cream shop get a banana split or chocolate fudge sundae
and find someone to laugh with and laugh until you laugh yourself silly.

Much wisdom here.

Much wisdom here too.

LOL! So TRUE!! :thumbsup

The POISON of ANGER!
 

Sis. Rhoni,

Not only in you and I, and in many others, but in the world.

The world is the field! After seed is planted, there is a bursting

open. The seed bursts open. From this breaking, out comes the

blade, then the corn (good for food), then the full ear in the corn.

Mature corn (good for planting again) The mature corn looks like

the original kernel that was planted. He knows at what stage each of

us are in! He sees inside where we cannot!

May our Creator have His way in each of our hearts and lives, in

Jesus Name!!

Blessings,

Falla39

best advice I've heard...Ice cream here I come...:highfive

Here is the proper response to ill treatment:
Joesph speaking to his brothers.
Genesis 50:20 - 21 (KJV) 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

It's not enough to just forgive.............

Springs can be stifled and brought to stagnation. When waters stagnate it is because they flow no longer. When they no longer flow, they dry up. The mouth is the wellhead of all waters of the soul. It is there that they can be capped which will eventually effect the death of that spring. From the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. The power of life and death is in the tongue. It is with the tongue that fresh waters can be made to flow also, water of praise and waters of thanksgiving. Waters of rejoicing and waters of well being. The rudder is a small part of a very large vessel but like the tongue, it guides the course upon the seas.

Daily, we prophesy into our lives, not totally realizing what we are doing. When we speak negatively, we are prophesying and creating our world...a negative world without form and void. God said "Let it be...." After six days of speaking, he rested...from his creating. We are in a small way the very image of God with creative abilities speaking into and creating our own world. The world without form and void in confusion of many lives is what they created by speaking into it those words that formed their world.

This is the day that the Lord has made. We can rejoice in it by expressing that joy, creating a world of joy and happiness for ourselves. On the other hand, we can speak into our lives in this day that the Lord has made, sadness and gloom rather than rejoicing and being glad in it.

When the spirit of man is pressed down for so long, it will take flight from the body. Of course, you know what that is. It is death to the body. Therefore, life can be revitalized by uncapping the well spring of joy and happiness by the creative forces that you have within you, being made in the image of God.

I've heard people say, "I have nothing to live for." Often and quickly, those people are gone on into eternity with their remains left behind in a grave. Prophesy to YOURSELF. Prophesy GOOD to yourself. Speak your world into existence. Do like God did. Say, "Let it be...." You will soon see forces at work that will bring forth light...like right now. Then you can prophesy, "Let the light be divided from the darkness." It may not happen immediately, but that creative power will go to work and before long, you will begin to notice changes taking place.

You might remember once you had said something and I abrutly stopped you from saying what you were saying. We did not talk long enough for me to fully explain what I was talking about but this is it. You may have wondered why I stopped you. This is the reason. You have the power of life and death in the tongue.

OK, now let everone that will, pile on. Crazy stuff huh? Almost sounds like Hoo Doo. :lol This is not mystical as some might lead you to believe but it is very real. Let God give you a vision of the world that he wants you to have. Now, start prophesying that world into existence, calling those things which ARE NOT as though THEY WERE. Let the weak say, "I AM STRONG." That is not lying or prophesying falsely, that is uncapping the wellhead of strengh and stiffling the waters of weakness. This is a good example.

I could speak for hours on this matter and only spoke of it briefly on another thread but it is something that many people should consider for thier own wellbeing.

Luv ya, sis. Ya know I do.

Bro. Strange,

As always, you speak wisdom. Because so many, not so positive things, have happened in a short space of time, I have become inwardly reflective and trying to weed out my faults and failures. I need to look through my Father's eyes and remind myself of who He says I am, and not what I think I am, or others think I am.

The Choleric/Melancholy in me will not stop me from striving for more, or trying to do more, or be more than I am...but I do thank God that He made me this way for a reason and I know He has a greater plan than even I can imagine.

Thank-you for your words of wisdom and counsel.

With love and respect, Sis. Rhonda

Rhoni,

You are unique having been given all the raw materials to make of yourself God's grandest vision for yourself. You've already done so much with your high academic accomplishment and professional accreditations. Few have attained so much under so great of adversities as you have. Though wounded from the battle, you can now elect to be weaker for it or you can chose to be stronger from it.

Speak LIFE.

Wow! What an excellent post!! I completely believe this, and am learning it to be true!!

I choose life!:nod