Bitterness is an Open Door for Witchcraft // Patricia King

well hello there um i was just coming out of my morning prayer time uh with some things that the lord revealed to me and things that i'm praying through right now so i thought i'd share them with you and so we'll just take a a few uh you know a couple minutes um and wait for more people to come on before i start uh the message but there's a couple of resources that i think that you might be interested in um that i'm that that pertain to the subject that i'm going to be sharing and you can go on patricia king.com to find these resources that's in our store and the one of them is um uh uh exposed witchcraft in the church it's a book that i wrote um about uh witchcraft and we definitely don't want to keep our eyes on you know dark things or anything and i don't want people's focus to be on witchcraft but i do feel that god has given us a warning um about an infiltration of witchcraft in the church and so that we need to be alert and i just received a prophetic word from someone just the other day um saying uh beware of of witchcraft so that's not something to make you afraid but it's just um that you position yourself in the victory that god has already given so we're not praying for a victory we're we're praying from victory and living our life from victory but we do have to put things under our feet just like jesus said in luke 10 19. and the other book that you might be interested in is um is narcissism overcoming narcissism um and it's called narcissism exposed and it gives you an idea of what um that is and we've been getting a lot of great feedback on that book so two books um is uh exposed witchcraft in the church and then narcissism exposed so they kind of fit in a little bit uh with this message and so those might be helpful and other resources on patriciaking.com feel free to go there so i'm gonna uh just start um the the um message that i have for you and i want to pray first that god will give revelation and insight into this because i just felt um the lord really stirred my spirit on it this morning it was just like a a real fresh revelation or insight that came for the particular hour that we're living in so father in the name of jesus we just pray right now for a spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of you to come to our hearts and to fill us with insight of of your greatness of how great you are and how mighty you are and how we can um separate our lives completely unto you and even as you said jesus the prince of this world is coming but he has nothing in me that we would have that same testimony and that i pray that this morning's message lord would bring deeper cleansing within our lives um so that we are prepared for the power to come and the displays of your glory through the church and for the great harvest in jesus name amen all right well this morning when i was in my prayer time the lord highlighted some things to me and especially um about the power of bitterness and how bitterness can literally destroy an individual and families and the body and it gives power witchcraft power um uh to the enemy and right now um at the time of this recording we are preparing for uh pentecost and uh pentecost is coming um you know within the next week or so and so for this whole month i've been praying into that and feeling in my spirit that in this new era that we are entering into right now that that something that is is is going to come as waves and waves of god's glory and more manifestation of his presence and power beyond anything that we've ever known before and um so i'm just like amazed i keep getting scriptures like out of haggai too or it says the latter glory of the house is going to be greater than the former um in acts chapter 2 where it says in the last days i'm going to pour out my spirit upon all flesh and there's just things being highlighted isaiah's 60 all kinds of different highlights are hitting my spirit and even though i i know that this next era is going to uh carry some tumult there's going to be shakings everything that can be shaken is going to be shaken but also there's going to be a great shaking into the household of faith and into the lives of believers that are the good things that god is is going to give us the the the glory of god is is is going to come to us in a new way and uh this morning as i was before the lord in prayer um he directed me to the story of simon the sorcerer so simon was operating in the power of sorcery or witchcraft and i just want to look at this scripture and show you some things and unpack something to you that i think might be helpful and it says in acts 8 chapter 9 or verse 9 rather it says but there was a certain man called simon which before time in the same city used sorcery and bewitched the people of samaria giving out that himself was some great one so first of all here you see not only was he um operating in witchcraft and was bewitching the people but he was giving out to them that he was a great one that's narcissism self-exaltation it's narcissism and if there is any motive in our heart that wants to have like be the top person or we've got to be in the know or we've got to be you know you know we see ourselves higher than another or we want more power than another or more authority more influence than another maybe another in the family maybe another in the workplace or the ministry we're in or whatever is that that is a danger point there uh because that's what simon the sorcerer gave way to to witchcraft in his own life when he when he had this need to be better than other people or to be exalted um above other people and then it says to whom all the people gave heed from the least to the greatest saying this man is the great power of god so again looking at man his self-exaltation influenced the people that they would think oh well we have to look to him and he's got all the knowledge and the wisdom and the power here and so we've got to look to him and we've got to um you know really acknowledge him right so we've got this dynamic going on and self-exaltation that's how cults are formed actually is by self self-exaltation of a leader and um the only one to be exalted is jesus right every one of us is are not only children first of course but servants of the most high and the spirit of god is poured out upon servants not upon self-exalted ones and in my book on narcissism you'll be able to read all the different symptoms of narcissism but one of one of the highlights is thinking yourself better than others or self-exalted or the need to be exalted the need to be looked at as the one that has all the answers all the knowledge all the power so um and and it says to him they had regard because that of long time hit bewitched them with sorcery so he was they didn't know it but they were actually being controlled by a spirit of witchcraft their thinking and their their you know all the um uh per persuasion that he operated in was actually coming from a spirit of witchcraft so then uh he sees the apostles come by and sees the power of god and people are getting the holy spirit so he goes to them and he says i want that power so he was hungry for spiritual things but just because you're hungry for spiritual things doesn't necessarily mean you're in the right spirit because you have to ask why do i want this is it to get get closer to jesus and be more hungry for him or is it just because i want to have more spiritual encounters under my belt sort of thing and i love teaching people on the glory realm of god the the invisible realm of the the kingdom all of that i love the you know the supernatural life i love it and and i teach it and i encourage people into it but the goal um can't be just so that we can be great in our spirituality it has to be so we can be like face to face with jesus one with jesus partnering with jesus in that realm and that we're humbled before him and taking a humble place before him and before man so he says i'll even give you money um if you can give me this power that you have um so i'm willing to make financial investment into this because i want the power that you have but he was in the wrong spirit so peter rises up and says you have neither part nor lot in this matter for your heart is not right in the sight of god now we know that that man looks to outward appearances but god looks at the heart and so peter is discerning something here he says your heart is not right in the sight of god and then he says repent therefore of this your wickedness and pray god if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you so this is a heart issue it wasn't even what was being done it wasn't the actual action of sorcery that was being addressed here or witchcraft it was the heart the heart that was producing it he's saying you need to look at you need to look at your heart and what the lord was speaking to me this morning was we need to look at our heart as we're preparing for pentecost and a greater move of power that we need to look at our heart and then in verse 23 peter says for i perceive in other words he's discerning i perceive that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity and iniquity is that generational sin that's passed down so what peter was saying this isn't like in a judgmental attitude he's saying this is what your issue is you are operating in sorcery you need to be great you need everyone to think that you're the best that you have all the knowledge all the power you know you need to be the big cheese sort of thing um but he said what the problem is is your heart and because you've been poisoned by bitterness there's bitterness within your heart and that bitterness and that generational inequity which is probably bitterness and judgment within the the generations is producing witchcraft through you and i thought wow when i read this this morning it was just like holy spirit put put the lights on now i feel that god is warning us um about the power of bitterness and how that it can actually cultivate um witchcraft activity it's a landing strip for the enemy i'm not saying that we would go out and join a cult i'm not talking about that i'm not saying i'm gonna go join the witchcraft covenant down the street and learn how to to do witchcraft but the bitterness of soul and the bitter judgment that we have in our heart towards others um the generational iniquity of that could cause us to move into self-exaltation and control of narratives and people's choices and environments and that control spirit is a jezebel spirit which is a witchcraft spirit and in revelation two i believe it is when this was being addressed through the letters of through the letters to the churches um god said you know i i'm addressing that woman jezebel um who calls herself a prophetess she was exalting herself um and i gave her time to repent but she did not and that it was inside the church so i believe that god's showing us a route here that we need to examine within ourselves if we have any bitter root judgments that we need to deal with those now because it's dangerous it's very dangerous in fact let me take you to another scripture hebrews 12 another one that lord gave me this morning 14-15 it says pursue peace with all people and holiness without which no one will see the lord looking carefully lest anyone falls short of the grace of god lest any root of bitterness springing up causes trouble and by this many become defiled now i want to talk about the political realm right now is that right now we are seeing a lot of warfare and through media bitterness is being projected you turn on the news six o'clock news to try to find out what's happening in the world and it's like a river of bitterness gets spewed out of the news broadcast and it's against um leaders in our nation against the president against whoever but it's this bitterness and it says that if you have this bitterness going on inside you it'll actually defile others and that's what we see happening and even in the church we have um this bitter attitude even towards some of the politicians there's ones that we don't like or don't agree with which is okay to not agree with someone but it's not okay to have bitterness and to start releasing um bitter words and and bitter by the way is just opposite of sweet so if it's not sweet it could be bitter right and that's what you have to evaluate so if you think of a certain person and then a non-sweet or a bitter feeling comes up on the inside of you chances are you've got a root of bitterness so um you know right now in the church a lot of christians for example have maybe some bitterness against a lady named nancy who's in the government um and you know i'm just using that as an example to try to show us how subtle these things and how self-righteous we can feel when we have it like so i'm in the sorcerer he was thinking he was a great one that i have you know because when you're bitter you're actually taking a seat of judgment and you feel that you're better than someone else because you're condescending upon them that you're the great one right you're higher than another and so we have to be very careful of that within the church so that if we see someone that is in trouble that we come underneath them and intercede and break off um you know what what's wrong but out of love not out of like a bitter judgment so it says that we're to pursue peace with all people and holiness without which no one will see the lord looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of god lest any root of bitterness springing up causes trouble and by it many become defiled and this can happen easily in church life it can happen in families that if there's a root of bitterness if you have bitterness towards let's say you know your mother-in-law or someone in your family it it will defile many in the family not just this isn't just about you it'll actually start to divide the family and the same in ministry i've seen it i know this one where even in in church life or ministry life if you've got someone with a bitter judgment within their heart and they start sharing it with other people it just poisons everyone all of a sudden you can feel the atmosphere isn't impregnated with glory anymore it's impregnated with with with this division and this is it's like witchcraft right so we have to deal with that in ephesians 4 31 it says let all bitterness and wrath and anger and by the way the anger of man does not bring about justice the anger of man the bible says in james does not achieve the righteousness of god so we have to watch over our heart with all diligence it says let all bitterness wrath anger clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice did you hear that let all bitterness wrath anger clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice one of the reasons is is because when you give yourself over to bitterness wrath anger clamour and malice you are opening the door for witchcraft to control you and to work through you and you become a curse rather than a blessing and god wants us to be cleansed from that because prior to pentecost in the bible they were all together in one place continually praying in one accord and so there was that unity there was that love there was that blessing and that's when the spirit was poured out and we cannot have bitterness in our heart and expect the holy spirit to fill us we can't do that those two do not work together and so we need to be cleansed from that and i believe that this is a word from the lord um okay and then in james 3 14 this is very strong too it says but if you have bitter envy and self-seeking within your hearts do not boast and lie against the truth so you see here that if you have that bitter edge in you and bitter jealousy or envy because bitterness by the way towards someone will is connected often times to jealousy and envy so that if you see someone that you've got bitterness towards let's say and you see them getting um more favor than you all of a sudden jealousy will and and you will fight to take away their favor it's the way bitterness works it it it connects to jealousy and envy and self-seeking which again is the narcissism right and i shared in the very beginning of this message some of you might not have come on yet but you can go to my website patricia king.com there's two resources that i feel go with this particular message that might help you one is is called exposed witchcraft in the church and the second one is narcissism exposed and those two resources might help you um but it says they're self-seeking so it's about self wanting to protect your own position wanting your own place and um and if you get in that place you're actually going to lie it says you will lie against the truth and boasting is involved in it as well so bitter roots of judgment they will damage you but also ignite witchcraft which is cursing and control and manipulation and we can't give ourselves to that we are not of that nature we are of a jesus nature we need to look to him now in matthew 7 verse 1 and 2 jesus said this judge not that you be not judged for with what judgment you judge you will be judged and with the measure you use it will be measured back to you so if you're judging another especially if you've got bitterness in your heart and you're judging another because you're bitter and you have critical judgment against them you're putting yourself you're rising yourself up raising yourself up above others because you have to do that in order to condescend you have to raise yourself up instead of coming underneath and helping another person you're judging them with a bitter judgment it says it's a dangerous place to be in because what's going to happen is you're leaving a landing strip for that same to come back to you and in the measure that you gave out it will be measured back so if you're giving out lots of bitter judgment it's going to come back in every area of your life and whatever you sow you reap but the problem was so or the the blessing of sowing actually is that you will reap more than what you sow so if you sow one corn seed um you're gonna get more than one ear of corn one kernel of corn off of it you're gonna get you know hundreds and hundreds of kernels of corn but on the negative side if you're sowing discord if you're sowing bitterness of your sowing judgment into others you're going to repent but you'll you'll reap way more than what you gave out and so i just want to put a warning there for us because god's cleansing his church and he's exposing hidden sin not so that um we can go under shame or anything so that we can be set free right he wants us to be set free um also it says um in proverbs 10 18 whoever hides hatred whoever hides hatred because no christian is going to come up and say i hate but they'll hide it it says whoever hides hatred has lying lips because you'll speak sweet words but inside is hatred inside is that bitterness and whoever spreads slander is a fool and we need to just stop this again i'm not saying this to to shame or blame anyone i am just desperately in the spirit wanting to see a cleansing in the church because even like the way we slander political leaders or your your spiritual leaders there's slander within the church one member against another that has to stop and um the the scripture is very strong on that and you'll become the enemy of god by walking in those contrary things okay so what is the solution then what is the solution well the cross is the solution and let me point you to exodus 15 verse 22 to 25 and this is um very insightful here okay but this is the solution to get rid of the bitterness that creates witchcraft um it says so moses brought israel from the red sea and then they went out into the wilderness of shur and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water now when they came to mara mara actually means bitter they could not drink the waters of mara for they were bitter therefore the name of it was called mera and the people complaining against moses saying what shall we drink so you can see that they started getting bitter they were bitter they were complaining they were murmuring they came against the leader and they let it all just all just gush out of them and so moses cried out to the lord and the lord showed him a tree and when he cast it into the waters the waters were made sweet the waters were made sweet so that tree represents the cross the cross is dying to yourself the cross is forgiving everyone that has hurt you and having that clean slate so those that that cross went into the waters and the water became sweet so in the bitter heart we repent come to the cross and we repent and we forgive we repent of our judgment and we forgive and then the water becomes sweet and that's what god is looking for and that's his nature it's that sweet nature of jesus christ and that's what we want to spill out on the world that we live in and so as we are getting ready for a fresh pentecost in our own lives a fresh outpouring of the spirit the spirit is not going to be poured out upon bitterness because he is sweet waters he needs us to position ourselves in readiness for him and in acts 8 22 again remember what peter said to simon the sorcerer he said repent therefore of this your wickedness what was the wickedness it was the bitterness the generational iniquity of bitterness and he says therefore repent of this your wickedness and pray if perhaps the thought of your heart that bitter well within your heart will be forgiven you so i i would invite us all to ask the holy spirit to search our heart is there any bitterness and don't don't hide it you know just like it said in in proverbs you know whoever hides hatred or whoever hides bitterness you have a you have lying lips and it's not going to set you free there'll just be more bitterness gushing out of you defiling many and we don't need that we need the church to be known in the world as as that which is sweet and beautiful and lovely and so let's contend together to present a heart before god that is so pure and you say yes but so and so has done wrong and justice should come and this should come and that person i can't stand it because they're you know they've they've done bad hair done bad that we'll let god deal with that but your only all that you owe them is to love them and to love them is to want the highest good for them and if you've got bitterness in your heart if you've got judgment in your heart you you could be opening the door to witchcraft what is that it is ungodly control it is cursing it is bringing hardship instead of blessing it is manipulating that's what witchcraft is and we should have no part of witchcraft let there be no witch among us right so i don't want to i don't want to operate in that i want to humble my heart before the lord i'm making sure the cross has been put in my heart that only sweetness comes out of me only the love of god comes out of me and so um just finally as i'm ending here is i just want to say move in the opposite spirit so like you know if if you're tempted if the enemy's coming at you and says be bitter move in the opposite spirit and show sweetness from a sincere heart this is not just phony like saying i'll be sweet outwardly but let bitterness rule inside no this is authentic sincere um jesus life pouring out of us because we are one with him and we unite our hearts to him so i hope this little devotional has helped you the little insight i got from my prayer time this morning something i'm praying into for my my own life i always want my life to be free from from the the nature of the enemy i want the nature of jesus christ which he's given me by faith to manifest and so that's my desire so when i get off track i want the lord to reveal that to me and as a leader in the body of christ you know it's my responsibility to make sure my flock the people that i am uh serving in the body that they have um the insight that they need to come free so that's why i'm bringing this to you today so thank you so much i want to let you know also about one of the things that is huge on my heart right now is our ministries web church it's an online um church with pastoral care and i love it i'm i'm i've actually over this last month or so become a pastor in in the web church and i love it and it's it's like we use a lot of live streaming on facebook to a private group where i spend at least you know i i'm probably online like numbers of times a week sometimes five seven times a week and we do bible studies and prayer times and just uh times of encouragement and connection and we're actually building a love community online and it's just really beautiful i'd love to have you part of my web church i personally only take those that live in the u.s because our prayer times and that are geared towards that but we have other web pastors all over the world uh wherever you are living we can facilitate that and i think it's really important that we gather together and we don't have to gather together in a building we can gather together in heart even online and support the work of the lord and and just feed each other strong and so if you're looking for pastoral nurture and covering i would love to be able um to pastor you and that's possible in this day's technology um and it's it's almost like i guess being pastorally mentored you know when you join the web church so you can go on shilohfellowship.com for more information about that and i would love to connect with you on it and then also um we do have other mentorships the a-team mentorship which is an ongoing where where you get teaching every month from me that um there's a course every single month and plus online infusion with you on a private facebook group as well so you can go on patricia kingmentor.com for more information on that so i know i'm giving you a lot so i would say uh go to patriciaking.com for the resource to find out how to get exposed witchcraft in the church and the book on narcissism expose and you can also find the tab on there to join the a team and then if you want to join my web church go to shilohfellowship.com god bless you thank you so much for joining me on today's little devotion time and have a wonderful day in the lord and remember that god loves you with an everlasting love he really really does

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Published: Thu May 21 2020