>> male announcer: This is "Healing Your Soul with
Katie Souza: Real Keys to the Miraculous."
What's weighing you down, holding you back?
What has wounded your soul? Today with Katie, discover
the healing power of God for your life.
Katie was once broken, oppressed, in bondage to a life
of mental and physical pain, until God gave her a new life
and powerful messages of how you can heal your wounded soul.
Now, here is Katie to begin today's program.
>> Katie Souza: Hi, I'm Katie Souza,
and you're watching, "Healing your Soul: Real Keys
to the Miraculous." We're continuing our series
on bitterness. Now, some of you may be thinking
you don't need to watch today's program because you don't feel
like you're bitter, or maybe you've already repented
the bitterness in your life. But let me ask you this, do you
ever catch yourself thinking a lot about a person
you're angry with? Do you replay hurtful things
they said to you over and over in your mind?
Are you constantly remembering a painful event that you have
lived through? Well, those thoughts can
indicate that you may still have some bitterness hidden
in your soul. If you examine yourself,
I'm sure you'll find at least one area you've allowed
bitterness to creep in. Maybe it's towards your spouse
or your children. Perhaps it's your boss
or somebody at work. Whatever the case, bitterness is
dangerous because it wounds your soul, then it can cause
all kinds of pain, disease, and lack in your life.
When I started going after bitterness in my own life,
I had all kinds of physical, mental, emotional, and even
financial problems that were connected to it.
I had unexplained weight gain that I couldn't get rid of.
I suffered with repeated infections that wouldn't
go away. I had issues in my marriage that
kept plaguing us. I even experienced a time where
I unexplainably lost a massive amount of muscle tissues
in my legs. The degeneration was so bad that
I had a layer of loose skin hanging off my thighs,
and I was weak and extremely tired after doing
even the most simple of tasks. The good news is that I got
supernaturally healed of that horrible condition after I was
healed of the bitterness in my soul.
Today, we're going to talk about how ancient soul wounds can
cause you to respond negatively towards difficult people
in trying situations. The good news is that today,
you're going to get free of those negative character bents
towards bitterness. Let's join the conference now.
>> Katie: Bitterness is poisoning and consuming just
countless areas in your life. 'Cause that's what bitterness
does, it consumes, it devours. It brings sickness and disease
on you, it breaks up relationships, it causes
marriages to split, it causes business to sink.
Bitterness is a toxic poison that can pollute every single
area of our life. So, when you get healed of it,
you are going to see new life spring up in every area of your
existence, amen? Bitterness, once it wounds
the soul, that wound controls you.
It controls the way you think, it controls your emotions,
it also controls your will. We've got to make sure we do not
let ourselves get embroiled in bitterness when we have to go
through life's events. If you're a born again believer,
Christ is in your spirit. Christ in you, the hope of
glory, do you think he's bitter about anything?
Absolutely not. So, bitterness lives
in the soul. It is an actual sin that can
wound your soul man. And then, when that wound is in
there that was created by bitterness, it can begin to
control every part of your soul.
>> Katie: So, there is such an animal as a generational
iniquity of bitterness, amen? How could you tell if you
had it? Well, one of the ways, one of
the ways is how is your natural response to difficult situations
and circumstances? When somebody tells you
something negative, bad, distressing, something that's
a bummer, how do you respond? Do you naturally respond with,
"Oh, what?
You're kidding, right? Oh, I knew they were going
to do that. Yeah, wonder what they're going
to do next"? Do you respond with bitterness
as kind of like your natural response?
How many people have that? See, what happens is these
generational iniquities, these wounds, they live in the soul.
And they're so powerful, they have the ability to bend your
character towards a certain behavior, be it bitterness,
fear, anxiousness, depression, whatever it is.
These generational iniquities have that kind of power to
literally bend your character towards that evil.
Do you know the root of the word "iniquity" is this, to bend,
to bend. That's what a generational
iniquity does, it bends your character towards that
particular sin. It becomes a natural response
to you. And that's one of the many ways
you can tell if you have been born with these generational
iniquities, amen? For me, I definitely had
a bitter bent.
Everything for me was negative, negative, negative.
I mean, I would respond with like an explosion every time
anybody told me anything negative.
I mean, I went into Linda Blaire mode when somebody told me
negative. I spun my head around and then
like puked out green pea soup on everybody, all right?
It was--and that was my natural response.
And I realized that, as a Christian, that was pretty
unacceptable, and that I should try to be positive when these
situations would arise in my life.
So, I started practicing, right? People would tell me something
horrible, and I'd go and brace myself, right?
Switch gears and go, "Oh, well, praise the Lord.
Hallelujah." I would try to make myself act
like, you know, the happy praise the Lord type person, but I was
full of bitterness, full of bitterness.
And I was to discover that it was ancient bitterness too,
not only my own in my lifetime, but it was coming from
a generational iniquity that was literally bending my character
towards that response. I remember when God began to
reveal it to me, I had a vision one time.
I had this vision 'cause I was asking God to show me what
to do of this coffee tree. You know those things that sit
on top of your counter, and they have little arms, and they hold
coffee mugs on them? On this coffee tree, it was
sitting on top of my counter. And as I'm looking at this
coffee tree, I knew somehow in this vision that because that
coffee tree was mine, that there were ancient demonic forces that
could attack me because I owned it.
And so, I come out of the--out of the vision and I'm totally
frustrated, right? It's like I'm really trying to
deal with a horrible problem here, and then God does
something like that and shows me a coffee tree.
It's like, "Yeah right, God, what does that mean, all right?"
And so, I look up the word "coffee," you're not going
to--you're not going to believe what the word "coffee" means.
It means, the root of it, bitter water.
And it's like, well, these coffee trees hold mugs on them,
right, on the arms. And he goes, "Yeah, see, you
have so much bitterness that you're drinking mugs full of it.
Your cup overfloweth." So, I was like,
"Wow, oh wow, bummer. Total bummer.
Okay." So I'm like,
"Okay, God, where did I get it?" And he's like, "It's ancient
bitterness in your soul." And I said, "I need to see that
in Scripture. And what about these demonic
things I saw floating around it? Like what does that mean?"
And he showed me the answer to both those questions.
He took me to Hebrews 12, I'll read it to you now.
Starting in verse 14, he says,
"Follow peace with all men in holiness, without which no man
shall see the Lord. Looking diligently lest any men
fail the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness," everybody
say, "root of bitterness," "springing up trouble you."
Say, "Trouble you." "And thereby many be defiled."
Okay, so when you look at that word "root of bitterness,"
it's telling us not to have a root of bitterness.
What does that mean? If you look up the word "root"
in the Strongs, it actually is
a metaphor for offspring or prodigy, meaning that bitterness
is generational, that it gets passed down to you through
the generations, amen? Maybe your ancestors start it or
whatever, but then it gets passed down to you.
So, when it's talking about a root of bitterness, it means
that we have to go back to the root in our bloodline
to get it out, amen? Now, it says this.
Remember it says, "Be careful lest any root of bitterness
springing up trouble you." Everybody say, "Trouble you."
Well, I looked up the word "trouble," and I was shocked and
happy at the same time because it gave me my answer about these
demonic spirits I saw floating around and attached
to this coffee tree. That word "trouble" there, when
you look it up in the Strongs, in the etymology of that word,
of that root, it means this. Listen, to be vexed, molested,
and troubled by demons. Oh bummer.
Makes you think about next time you want to let yourself be
controlled by that bitter bent in your soul and allow yourself
to be bitter. Because when you do,
that bitterness is like blood in the water to sharks.
Those demons are right there to attach themselves to the
bitterness that's in your soul. And then they're ready to vex,
molest, and trouble you, amen? And since they're ancient
demons, they're very powerful. And they could do many
different things to you, including make you sick.
In fact, they could make you so sick with terminal diseases
and disorders of every kind, they could actually kill you
before your appointed time. How many of you know that
the Bible says in Hebrews 9 that we all have an appointed time
to die? How many of you have read that
Scripture? God has actually picked a time
for us to go onto glory, amen? Okay, but did you know that
many people are not dying in God's time?
They're dying out of his time. Now, how do I know?
Because if every single person was dying in God's time, Jesus
would've never resurrected anyone from the dead, okay?
He resurrected the widow of Nain, Jairus' daughter,
and Lazarus, okay? You know, Jesus would never have
resurrected anyone that died at God's appointed time because
Jesus said in John 5, "I only do what I see the Father doing."
He would never go against the Father, and resurrecting
somebody who died at God's appointed time would be
rebellion against the Father. So, in other words, those
three people he resurrected, it must have not been their time.
>> Katie: People tend to think of missions as overseas
evangelism in some country far away, but one of the biggest
mission fields is in the prison near your own home.
We are called to minister to incarcerated men and women
all over the world. Together, we can go into
the most critical mission field of all, the prison near you.
>> announcer: Today, with your support, you are giving hope and
healing to a life that may be in a desperate need of a change.
Call now, and when you do, Katie would like to thank you for your
gift by sending you a copy of her teaching and soaking package
"Live Free: Escaping the Trap of Bitterness of Soul."
With your gift of $55 or more, you will have a part in putting
God's Word directly into the hands of a life that is
ready to change. Call toll-free, 1-800-789-7895.
And as a thank you for your gift, Katie will send you a copy
of "Live Free." >> Katie: Is your mind full of
angry thoughts about a person or a difficult situation?
If so, you could have a wound in your soul from bitterness.
Now, are there also sicknesses in your body, or are you broke
in your finances? Believe me, these things
are connected. Once I got healed of
the bitterness in my soul, I received numerous physical
miracles and major financial breakthroughs.
You can too. >> announcer: Call now with
your gift, 1-800-789-7895. Help Katie reach out to
thousands of prisoners with a powerful message of
God's ultimate healing power.
>> Katie: Now, we have to understand something.
God has an appointed time, and believe it or not, when that
moment arrives, you are supposed to be totally well, and strong,
and healthy when you go. Does the Bible say that?
Yep, watch. This is Job 21, this is the will
of God for your passing on to glory.
"One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet,
breast full of milk, and his bones are full of marrow
and moistening." That's God's will for
your death. You'd be strong, healthy,
running around with the grandkids, jogging, swimming,
everything else right to the last moment at your
appointed time. Now, the next verse tells us
why people are dying out of God's appointed time, ready?
Next verse, "And the other dies in bitterness of soul."
People are dying not at God's time because they're carrying
these ancient wounds of bitterness, they're not getting
them corrected, they're actually bending their--allowing their
character to be bent towards that bitterness, and getting
more and more bitter. The wounds are getting bigger
and bigger until finally, these ancient demonic spirits
activate, they come and they put cancer, and disease, and
disorder of every kind, and then that person dies out of God's
appointed time because they died of bitterness of soul.
We got to get rid of all this bitterness, man.
We got to get rid of the stuff that's happened in our life.
You know, hey, okay, so your ex burned you, took everything in
the divorce, and left you with nothing.
Is it going to do you any good to be bitter about it?
No. Is it going to hurt him?
He's happy as pie, he don't care.
But it's going to make you sick, it's going to take your business
away from you, it's going to steal your ministry, it's going
to cause you to separate from your kids even more.
It's going to cause major problems in your life.
Remember, Romans 1 says that--Paul said, "I'm not
ashamed of the gospel, which is the power or dunamis
unto salvation." When you were saved,
dunamis power came, and it's what made that happen.
It's resurrection power. It resurrected your dead
spirit man unto eternal life, so now you have a tank full of
dunamis power. That's what the word "power"
there means, dunamis. You have a tank full that never
runs out, it lives inside of you.
And it not only resurrected your dead spirit man unto eternal
life, but it does a bunch of other cool stuff.
Because if you look up the word "dunamis," it means what?
Number one, excellence of soul. It's able to heal every wound
that came through you for your family line that you were born
with, every bitter wound that you develop during
your lifetime. It also means the power to
perform miracles, so it's able to heal your body when you start
getting sick because you have bitterness in your soul, amen?
Over these next two sessions, I'm going to be telling stories,
all kind of embarrassing, terribly embarrassing stories
about myself mostly, and other friends of mine, and other
people that I've known that have been healed of these
generational iniquities of bitterness that lived
in their soul. And when they did,
they got major miracles in their physical body.
>> Katie: So, just pray with me, say, "Lord Jesus, I realize
bitterness is much more dangerous than I could possibly
imagine, so I want to be totally healed of it.
I ask that you would wash away all the sin of bitterness that I
have committed in my own life, and all the sins of bitterness
that my ancestors committed all the way back to Adam.
I repent for getting bitter towards people, saying
judgmental, critical, evil, angry, hateful words towards
them and about them. I repent for doing that.
And I sincerely forgive them. I know I'll feel it
once the wound is healed. But by faith, right now,
I forgive them completely of every offense that they've ever
committed against me, whether real or perceived.
Lord Jesus, I command the dunamis resurrection power
that's in me to flow out of my spirit into my soul, and go to
every single wound in my soul that came from bitterness.
I command those wounds to be healed by the power
that's in me. I am excellent of soul.
I am excellent of soul. I receive the resurrection power
that's in my spirit. And as it's released
into my soul, I know I will be resurrected just like Lazarus.
I will not die before God's appointed time because of
bitterness of soul. I will pass onto glory, my bones
full of marrow and moistening, my breasts full of milk, and
I will be quiet, at ease, full of strength, full of vitality
because I have no bitterness of soul."
Now, just receive that dunamis power.
I command it to go into your soul right now.
I command it to go into your soul and make your soul
excellent in the name of Jesus right now.
I command your body to be filled with the dunamis power that's
inside of you, and cause that dunamis power to form a miracle
in you, to heal your body of every disease and disorder that
is coming from bitterness. And I command your character not
to be bent towards bitterness, that you would be so healed of
these generational iniquities of bitterness that you would no
longer bend in your response towards the reaction of
bitterness, but instead it would be easy for you to react in
peace, in joy, in happiness, in calmness, that you would possess
your soul because your soul was no longer being controlled by
these ancient bitter bents. In the name of Jesus, I command
it for you. Do you receive it?
If you do, shout amen. Let's just give God a praise,
amen?
>> female: I met you before. You healed my eye.
>> Katie: I healed your eye? What happened?
>> female: I was born with a congenital hereditary cataract.
>> Katie: This is the woman! I've been looking for you, girl.
Okay, let's hear all the testimony.
So, I was just here when that happened, didn't it?
>> female: Yeah, it was just at--it's just my right eye.
And you can see the grey, you still see it.
You see the-- >> Katie: I do, a little bit of
grey, yeah. Okay, okay, so you're saying
that you couldn't see out of the side of your eye before.
>> female: No light. >> Katie: That there was
no light. >> female: I couldn't see
nothing, dark, blacker than me and you and this shirt.
You said it would get better day by day, and it has.
>> Katie: Okay, so did something happen right away that day?
>> female: Oh yeah, when I took my hand down, I could see out
the side. I mean, colors, like I can do
it now. You got--somebody I ain't seen
already, but I can see like all the blue, all the red.
I could see all the way up to like right here.
>> Katie: You could only see black, but then all of a sudden
you can see colors. >> female: I could see colors,
and then it started like silhouettes, like images.
But now I can see-- No, I can see it pretty good.
That's pretty good. >> Katie: Describe.
>> female: Oh. >> Katie: Maybe you better not.
>> female: No, no, no. No, I can--I mean, I see--I see
the difference between your shirt and you.
I can see your eyes. I can see the blue and pink
behind. I can see the light, which I
never saw any of that. I can see a portion of the mic.
I can see your hand. >> Katie: Wow.
And you could never see any of that before?
>> female: No. >> Katie: So, it's getting
progressively better and better every day?
>> female: Yes. >> Katie: That was like what,
a couple of months ago? >> female: About a couple of
months ago. >> Katie: Okay, ready?
Stand there. Father, now we know you're going
to complete the work. We decree it right now.
And she's already seeing hands, mics, colors, hair, different
silhouettes, differences, and we know you're going to make it
sharp like she's watching HD TV.
And everybody shout amen.
>> Katie: Let me ask you a question.
Do you naturally respond to difficult situations and trying
people by getting defensive, angry, or even critical?
If so, it may be because you were born with a bent in your
character towards bitterness. Now, ask yourself, are you also
physically, mentally, or emotionally suffering in any
kind of way? Well, the two can be connected.
Let's get it all healed right now.
Just pray along with me. Just say, "Lord Jesus, I believe
you can do anything, including healing me of any dangerous or
destructive character bents. So, right now, I ask that you
straighten out that bent in my soul towards bitterness.
Cleanse my bloodline of that behavior all the way back to
Adam, in Jesus' name. Change the way I respond to
difficult situations by healing me.
I repent for being bitter. Thank you for your blood that's
cleansing me of that bitter bent in Jesus' name."
Okay, keep praying with me. Say, "I thank you, Lord, that
you are also healing me of the wounds caused by my sins.
With your resurrection dunamis power, that power lives
in my spirit man. I release that dunamis right now
to do what dunamis means, make me excellent of soul.
I believe you're healing my soul of every bitter root so that I
will no longer have a bent towards bitterness
and negativity. In Jesus' name, amen."
I want you to continue praying these prayers so that you can
get to the root of all the bitterness in your soul.
It took me a few months to get healed of every bitter bent that
was controlling me because bents in our character can run far
back to our family line. So, it may take a little bit to
get totally healed, but the good news is that Jesus died for
every single character bent in you.
And the Bible says that you carry around in your body
the power of his cross and his resurrection.
So, you already have everything you need to get healed.
When I got healed of my bitter bent, it changed my life.
I was so angry about everything all the time, but as soon as my
healing came, I felt so much peace and I felt so relieved.
I encourage you to fiercely go after your healing by just
spending a few minutes every day praying these simple prayers
and using your faith to release what you already have.
When you do, you'll start to see your life is going to
dramatically change.
>> Katie: People tend to think of missions as overseas
evangelism in some country far away, but one of the biggest
mission fields is in the prison near your own home.
We are called to minister to incarcerated men and women
all over the world. Together, we can go into
the most critical mission field of all, the prison near you.
>> announcer: Today, with your support, you are giving hope and
healing to a life that may be in a desperate need of a change.
Call now, and when you do, Katie would like to thank you for your
gift by sending you a copy of her teaching and soaking package
"Live Free: Escaping the Trap of Bitterness of Soul."
With your gift of $55 or more, you will have a part in putting
God's Word directly into the hands of a life that is
ready to change. Call toll-free, 1-800-789-7895.
And as a thank you for your gift, Katie will send you a copy
of "Live Free." >> Katie: Is your mind full of
angry thoughts about a person or a difficult situation?
If so, you could have a wound in your soul from bitterness.
Now, are there also sicknesses in your body, or are you broke
in your finances? Believe me, these things are
connected. Once I got healed of
the bitterness in my soul, I received numerous
physical miracles and major financial breakthroughs.
You can too. >> announcer: Call now with
your gift, 1-800-789-7895. Help Katie reach out
to thousands of prisoners with a powerful message of God's
ultimate healing power.
>> Katie: Like I said, I was so filled with bitterness, it took
many months for it to all come out.
And just to let you know, it got worse during the process.
There were days that I would feel an uncontrollable anger
rising up in me over the littlest things, and I would
think, "What is going on? I'm supposed to be getting
better, not worse." Then God told me what it was.
He said there are ancient demonic spirits attached to
bitterness, and the closer you get to the root, the more they
rise up and try to drive you to get angry and bitter.
So, your job is to keep believing and decreeing until
you get to the source in your soul, then that spirit will have
to leave. So, don't give up.
You'll know when the breakthrough happens because
you'll feel a shift towards peace in here.
Be encouraged. Jesus is making it happen
right now. See you next week.
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