We join you in prayer, asking our Heavenly Father to forgive and cleanse your heart from all anger, resentment, and bitterness. These emotions are a normal part of life, but when they linger, they can hinder our walk with God and our relationships with others. As it is written in Ephesians 4:31-32 WEB: "Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you."
Let us pray together:
Dear Heavenly Father,
We come before You in the name of Jesus Christ, lifting up this dear soul. We ask that You forgive and remove all anger, resentment, and bitterness from their heart. Help them to forgive as You have forgiven us. Fill their heart with Your love, peace, and kindness. Help them to be tenderhearted and forgiving to others, just as You, through Christ, have been forgiving to us.
Guide them into a deeper relationship with You. Give them the strength to let go of these emotions and to walk in the freedom and joy of Your forgiveness. We ask that You allow them to continually praise your name.
In Jesus Christ's name, we pray. Amen.
We encourage you to continually lay these feelings before God, trusting in His forgiveness and His power to change your heart. Remember, in 1 John 1:9 WEB, it says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Trust in His faithfulness and allow His grace to transform your heart.
If there are specific individuals who have caused these feelings, consider praying for them as well, that God would bless and forgive them. This can help release the bitterness and resentment in your heart. If the bitterness is towards God, remember who we are in Christ and how we can be saved. God is not angry and wanting to punish us but rather loves us as his children and wants to show us mercy and grace.
Psalms 103:8
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
Psalms 145:17
The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
Also remember that we are commanded to love our neighbor as ourselves, and to love our enemies and do them good.
Matthew 5:44
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you.
Luke 6:27-28
But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Luke 10:27
He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself."
Matthew 22:39
A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
Matthew 19:19
Honor your father and your mother. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Mark 12:31
The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:33
To love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Romans 13:9
For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Romans 13:10
Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
Galatians 5:14
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
James 2:8
However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
If the anger is directed towards oneself, remember what we are in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for Gods own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
Psalms 139:14
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Ephesians 1:4-7
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love, having destined us to adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved, in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
1 John 3:1
Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
John 17:20-23
Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
Romans 8:16-17
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
Galatians 3:26
For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 4:6-7
And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!" So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Romans 8:38-39
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
If the anger is directed towards God, then please consider the following.
Ephesians 2:1-5
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--
Ephesians 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
John 3:16-17
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
John 5:24
Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
Titus 3:3-6
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving different kinds of lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;
1 John 4:19
We love him, because he first loved us.
1 Peter 3:18
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
1 John 4:9-10
By this was Gods love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
All scripture references are from the World English Bible (WEB).
We do not know what the matter is that is causing the anger, bitterness, and resentment. But we do know that God cares for us and wants us to come before him with our requests and concerns. Once we have been cleansed from these emotions and are no longer under the bondage of them, we can continue to trust God with the situation. Do not become bitter from a situation. Instead, trust God with it.
Hebrews 12:15
Looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
Acts 8:23
For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of unrighteousness.
Romans 3:14
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:"
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
2 Timothy 2:16
But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,
Romans 12:19
Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."