Wise Words Capsule
Friday, 6th June 2025
TOPIC: THE NEGATIVITY OF STRIFE AND BITTERNESS
Focal SCRIPTURE:
Ephesians 4:31-32
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: Ephesians 4:31
One of the deadly enemies of destiny is the lifestyle of strife and bitterness. This also refers to competitive jealousy and comparison. Lot entered into strife with his uncle, Abraham who brought him out of obscurity. Absalom also strove with his father, David. Both Lot and Absalom ended in disaster. Know these following things about strife and jealousy:
Progress is arrested when strife is in place. You stop moving forward in life when you agree to strive with your neighbour.
Focus is distracted where strife is established. Whenever you agree to strive with someone, your focus is distracted; another person’s success becomes your focus when strife is in place and where there is no focus, disaster is inevitable.
Competition equals limitation. You cannot become who you are meant to be if your focus is to undo, overdo or outdo someone else.
The Presence of strife is the absence of God
The presence of strife equals the presence of hate because you do not strive with someone you love; and the presence of hate is the absence of God. So, anyone that strives with his neighbour and hates him has eliminated God from his life because God is love (1 John 4:8).
Beloved, christ follower, deliver yourself from the lifestyle of strife because strife is a killer of joy, and your joy is necessary for your destiny fulfilment.
You cannot be joyful when you are in bitterness and jealousy.
Put to heart that Progress is arrested when strife is in place, so avoid it like a plague.
As such, avoid the lifestyle of strife, envy, competition and hatred.
Be contented with what you have while working and trusting God for more, and live in love with everyone.
Be endued with the spirit of love now and alwaysly
Declare these:
1. O LORD, deliver me from the lifestyle of competition, comparison, strife and hatred in Jesus name.
2. Help me to live in contentment and love, Lord, in Jesus’ Name.
3. I receive the spirit of love and live by it in Jesus name.
Wisdom deposit for today: Bitterness is the source of countless spiritual and physical problems in millions of lives today. DONT BE A VICTIM.