Unmasking the Spirit of Bitterness

Hebrews 12

We are walking in today:  Unmasking the Spirit of Bitterness

Teaching from the book:  Unmasking the Jezebel Spirit, by John Paul Jackson

Witness bitter root through out the Bible:H4751 mar discontented, angry, heaviness of spirit
Deuteronomy 29:17; Proverbs 14:9-11; Hebrews 12:14-16

Hebrew 12:15
See to it that no one misses out on God’s grace, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble and thus contaminates many -CJB

Revelation 2:18-21
“To the angel of the Messianic Community in Thyatira, write: ‘Here is the message from the Son of God, whose eyes are like a fiery flame and whose feet are like burnished brass: I know what you are doing, your love, trust, service and perseverance. And I know that you are doing more now than before. But I have this against you: you continue to tolerate that Izevel woman, the one who claims to be a prophet, but is teaching and deceiving my servants to commit sexual sin and eat food that has been sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to turn from her sin, but she doesn’t want to repent of her immorality. -CJB

The roots of bitterness taking control of one who has not dealt with past rejection, allows seeds of jealousy, envy, selfishness and pride to take root in one's heart undetected.  Causing one to act out of character just to gain attention--often feeling the gifts given could be fueled to further this root of bitterness. Talents are misplaced and misunderstood veiled by darkness. So that even the influenced believes their efforts are for good cloaked by their own deception. This leaves one still under bondage and delusional as the mask that is worn is still a prison to the face hidden behind. Walking in the forgiveness, no longer being bound by holding onto to past hurts. If not this sour fruit will spread throughout the body--thus contaminating the rest of the fruit or bearing more bad fruit is then end result.
These sour fruits can consist of but vary do to the experience of the unsuspecting Jezebelite: legalism, depression, servitude, enslavement, and control. These people also operate under the influence of wanting responsibility but not the accountability as well as lacking gratitude for gifts given, yet there is always more...
The spirit of fear is also a stronghold for the spirit of Jezebel--which causes a gripping numbing feeling of lack of faith and Yahweh. When one is under the influence of fear one cannot believe nor hear the truth of Yahweh. Nor any other truth for that matter. There only is the constant voice of nagging and twisting and causing despair that is believed in. That is a stronghold.
Deeply embedded into the subconscious mind, strongholds take root subtly. Once words are introduced to our comprehension, the interpretation is either believed or discarded. Nine times out of ten strongholds that enter us mentally are simply lies that are believed. First having taken their root in the subconscious. Causing other roots to be conjoined as the Jezebel spirit in the lead. As we believe the words of this seductive spirit--rejection, insignificance, and insecurities begin to manifest as the chain reaction on those that are influenced.
This Jezebel spirit can't stand meekness it sees it as low based and beneath its status, because this spirit seeks power. At the onset, those who resemble restraint and temperament would shrill the insides of one influenced by Jezebel.
The root of the matter is what is important in this battle we are in. One way is cleaning out the root--which Yahweh promised to clean us and the proper way it's done in the Kingdom.

Matthew 13:24 -29
Yeshua put before them another parable. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, then went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads of grain, the weeds also appeared. The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?’ He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants asked him, ‘Then do you want us to go and pull them up?’ But he said, ‘No, because if you pull up the weeds, you might uproot some of the wheat at the same time. Let them both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest-time I will tell the reapers to collect the weeds first and tie them in bundles to be burned, but to gather the wheat into my barn.’” - CJB
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