Who are you angry with?

In the 80’s God gave me a dream about the calling on my life. My calling is all about healing and deliverance. Over the last 30 years I have seen people healed, delivered, hearts healed, many, many miracles and Jesus is always the reason for these things to happen in the lives of people.

During these past 30 years, I have taught and trained many people through healing workshops. In my workshop there is hands-on training and practical application of the scriptures.

One part of my workshop is about anger and unforgiveness. That’s what I want to share today and how it relates to sickness.

Have you ever stopped to think about the things that make you angry and why?

Ephesians 4:20–29

20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Do Not Grieve the Spirit

25 Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another. 26 “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, 27 nor give place to the devil. 28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need. 29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. (NKJ)

Many people get angry (an unrighteous anger) and stay angry which gives place to devil. There are steps to the building of anger and the destruction it will do in someone’s life. Being an angry person can make someone very sick.

Here is an example of what being angry and sinning can do for you. Let’s say that a couple just has a big fight over something first thing in the morning. They decide to stay mad at each other for the day and then when they come home they will finish their discussion.

That type of anger can depress your immune system for hours.

Here are the steps to becoming angry.

• Bitterness — principality of the enemy
• Unforgiveness — records of wrongs
• Resentment — chewing on it
• Retaliation — get even
• Anger/Wrath — anger now starts
• Hatred — there is not enough room for both of us
• Violence — you are going to feel my pain
• Murder — final fruit of bitterness. This can be with your words and not a physical murder.

Bitterness is a sin. We choose to become bitter because we are choosing not to forgive. Have you become God in the situation?

This is the very beginning of anger building and making the choice not to forgive. Unforgiveness is like poison in your body. First it poisons your mind and then your body.

If we continue to be bitter, it will bring sickness. We have opened the door to devil. See Ephesians 4:27

Maybe you are saying but they deserved what they got and I have a right to be angry. Here is what Proverbs says; Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. (NKJ). Look again at how anger builds.

Years ago I had a lady come to office for prayer and during her time with me, we discovered that she was a very angry person with 3 people. Her daughter, her mother and her sister. She knew why she was angry with her daughter and her mother but had no idea why she was angry with her sister.

This lady stopped by my office because she was sick, packed for the hospital and told she would have surgery.

I instructed her to talk with her daughter, her mother and her sister. She asked her daughter, her mother and her sister to forgive her for how she had acted because she had no right to be angry with them. She was forgiven by her family and she forgave them. It was so rewarding for this family.

This is a great story because she was healed once she forgave them. No surgery!

Perhaps this story about forgiveness fits in your family. It does not matter who makes the first step toward forgiveness. What’s important is that the first step is made.

Proverbs 18:17 The first one to plead his cause seems right, Until his neighbor comes and examines him.

Forgiveness is a choice! Dr. Don Colbert says “Forgiveness is like taking an emotional shower: it cleanses and frees the entrapped soul.”

What happens if we choose not to forgive? First, we are hurting ourselves big time! Look what it says in Mark 11:25–26

25 “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. 26 [a]But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.” (NKJV)

Should we decide to stay angry and not forgive this is some of the fruit from that decision. (A More Excellent Way Spiritual Roots to Disease)

• Can be past to the next generation
• High blood pressure
• Aneurysms
• Strokes
• Hemorrhoids
• Varicose veins
• Cholesterol Others….
• The body is exploding on the inside….

Proverbs 26:2 Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow,
So a curse without cause shall not alight. (NKJV)

Here is how the curse with a cause can get in… you leave your door opened to you home just a small crack. In a small crack only very small bugs can come in. The door remains open because no one will close it. The wind blows and opens the door some more. Now bigger things can come in but still no one will close the door. As this door opens wider much larger things can now come into your home.

Our heart is the door and if we allow unforgiveness to remain in our heart, our heart will become a hard heart.

Proverbs 4:23. Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. (NKJV)

There is so much that can be said about being angry and sinning. As a Christian, we do not have the luxury of hanging on to unforgiveness at anytime. We can not use our anger to punish others, we are only hurting ourself.

Today ask yourself, who am I angry with, am I carrying a grudge against someone, am I using my angry to punish another, what is my purpose in being angry and in the end is it really worth it?

Make a choice to walk in forgiveness. It really does a soul good to forgive!