Author: Annamarie Strawhand

Annamarie Strawhand is a Christian life coach, prophetic mentor and minister to thousands of her followers and students as well as a speaker and author. Annamarie speaks and teaches from a position of bold faith in God, passion for His people, Holy Spirit inspired wisdom, and purpose. She is host of Faith Lane TV on YouTube, Facebook and Rumble. Tune in to her live broadcasts Monday Wednesday and Friday mornings! After 30 plus years as a coach for professional race car drivers, Annamarie was called by God to begin a ministry and coaching practice in 2017 that would focus on guiding and equipping God's people - to help them fully and victoriously activate their divine purpose. Now known as a "faith and victory" coach - Annamarie has a full coaching practice, mentoring programs, courses, books and digital media that is bringing in clients and students of all ages ready to launch into what God has called them to do. More programs are being developed, along with a full publishing company.
Tithing Is An Act Of Worship

Tithing Is An Act Of Worship

Tithing Is An Act Of Worship

“The tithe is 10% of our gross income we give to God through our local church. This sanctifies the 90% as “off limits” to satan!”  – Gary Keesee

God honors, blesses and protects those who tithe, but He makes miracles out of the offerings that are over and above the tithe!

Tithing is an act of worship and obedience, your offerings are over and above your obedient tithe.   I love to tithe and I love to give added offerings unto the Lord because I want to lavish my love on Him and I know if I do this, He will do even more for me and my household! Because He loves me even more than I can give – we give and He gives back even more than we ask or think!

He wants to lavish good gifts and blessings upon us!  But we must first reveal our hearts for Him.  That we believe He is Good!

Deuteronomy 28:12 describes: “The Lord will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. ” 

Abraham was blessed because he tithed and believed God!

Jesus said be like Abraham!

Abraham Knew Jesus!  He was generous to Jesus when Jesus visited his tent with two Angels!

It’s a blessing to choose to be like Abraham!

Jesus knew he could count on Abraham to be generous and hospitable to Him!

James 222 – Key of Abraham Works with Faith together!

Faith and Works Can Be Also Fulfilled Through Tithing!

Tithing is a work of FAITH!

James 2:21Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 2 2You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did. 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.…

Tithing brings blessing, increase and protection of God!

It’s not a law, its a choice – Jesus made the choice to be blessed like Abraham possible for us as Christians, the tithe is a way Abraham honored God and God called him righteous and Abraham became very wealthy.

Jesus gave us a choice because He grafted us into the blessings of Abraham!

Jesus always asked the disciples what they had at hand first, they brought that to him and he multiplied it

When you tithe, you are putting a fence of protection around your finances. Tithing will not put a million dollars in your bank account. You have to grow something for God to protect. God wants to see you prosper, but while we are living on the earth, we must follow the rules of the earth. You have to first plant a seed in order to produce a harvest. – Gary Keesee

The word tithe means a tenth. It represents a minimum, not a maximum of giving.

We, as followers of Jesus, are called to tithe and be generous, especially since Jesus was so generous to us.

What most people think is that “tithing” is an Old Testament principle and it’s not for us anymore. However, tithing can be found in 3 primary areas of scripture:

  • Abram gave a tenth in Genesis 14.
  • Malachi 3:10 talks about how God validates the tithe and says to test Him in giving and that we’ll never “out give” God.
  • Jesus in Matthew 23:23 corrects the Pharisees for how they were tithing and redirects them for what they should do with the tithe instead. By doing this, we can see it’s still clearly a New Testament principle, Jesus validates it, and makes sure the heart of generosity is present when tithing, not selfish motivations.

As Jesus demonstrated grace towards us, He always raised the bar from the law. Grace raises the bar in everything. (Jesus in Matthew 5, 6, and 7 compares hatred to murder, lusting to adultery, etc.) This means when it comes to tithing, our goal shouldn’t just be to “hit the tenth and be done,” but rather use the tenth as a starting point and increase from there.

Keep this in mind, this isn’t giving God His money, this is ALL already God’s money. This is our reminder of whose money it is.

When my husband Michael and I started tithing, we became debt free after 20 years of marriage!  We never argued about money again and our finances began to increase.  This is confirmation of tithing.  We want to do this, its a choice, we enjoy being obedient, we want to worship God this way.

Watch the video below on how God brought my husband and I into obedience to begin tithing faithfully:

Biblical Instruction: How God Made My Husband and I DEBT FREE After 20 Years of Marriage

Jesus fulfilled the laws of Moses, yes – tithing is being obedient to God and  is an act of worship and a connection to the blessings of Abraham and we do this through Jesus.  WE have abundance of the Kingdom through Jesus Christ and these are kingdom acts of faith. Also the Kingdom is financed to spread the Gospel.   This is going about the Father’s Business.  Jesus did receive lavish financial offerings from Joanna, a woman of wealth who was married to an officer in the court of King Herod.  Joanna was honored for her faithful financial giving by being one of the women who was the first to see the empty tomb and the resurrection of her Lord Jesus Christ! What an honor!

With the complete work of Jesus Christ, we as believers are now a Melchizadek Priesthood, Kings and Priests through Christ Jesus.  We are no longer a Levite Priesthood.  Meaning that Jesus is both ministry and marketplace.  We can have both ministry and business at the same time, our ministries do not depend on the tithe.  However as Melchizadek was a King and a Priest,  his Kingdom of Salem (Jerusalem) was both ministry (he made intercession before God for the people) and marketplace (he made sure the land and people were prosperous).   He did receive Abraham’s tithe to store and use towards the work needed to be done in his Kingdom region and even to support his work and staff to do this. The first tithe Abraham brought Melchizadek was a 10th of the plunder of the items taken from the enemy from a battle victory!  They celebrated together with Bread and Wine!  Sound familiar?  This is who we are now!  This is how we grow the Kingdom of God in the earth!  They began a partnership and God was honored and fruitfulness in all areas, the ministry, the land, the people and the marketplace and yes even in their own homes, families and land!

This is the perfect government of God!  Salem means “Peace”.   Melchizadek means “Righteous”.    Your ministry and leadership is to be like Melchizadek and your household and business like Abraham.

The Melchizadek partnership of Abraham and Melchizadek, is Abraham and Jesus Priesthood, and Abraham Tithed to Melchizadek.

Genesis 14:18-20 Abram (whose name was later changed to Abraham) had been blessed by God in recovering Lot and the others who had been taken captive. So Abram gave a tenth of the spoils to Melchizedek. This is the first mention of the practice of tithing—giving a tenth of our increase to God—in the Bible.

Jesus clearly said for us to be like Abraham – a faithful man whom God blessed abundantly and has a covenant blessing with God that will last for all  his generations and increase in blessings that are either born into that covenant (Hebrew) and those who are grafted into that covenant (Jesus Christ).

As Christians, we are to be like Abraham and enjoy the covenant blessings of God and remember God for His faithfulness to increase our blessings when we honor our side of the covenant with God with our tithe and obedience. It’s a win- win!

John 8:39  “They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.”

Once my husband and I became faithful with our own tithe, God then trusted us as a ministry to receive tithes here as a storehouse.  If you feel led to tithe here, we will pray obediently and faithfully over your tithe and do our best to make sure we do the will of God here with all the tithes and offerings that come into this ministry.  However it is important that you tithe where you are being fed and you see that ministry or church doing the will of God and has good fruit of the Holy Spirit.   Tithe where God tells you to tithe.  This is all an act of worship unto Him by the leading of your heart.   It’s not so much the money that God is looking at, but the heart for Him in the way it is presented to Him, it’s like a pleasing incense to Father.  It’s because YOU are remembering HIM and BLESSING HIM.   How much more will He remember you and bless you when you ask?  TITHING is all about RELATIONSHIP.

When we Tithe, it pleases God and He even tells us to TEST Him on this – if we do this in faith and love HE HIMSELF will open up the Windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing so great we can hardly contain it. (Malachi Chapter 3) Not only that, God will then rebuke any and all devouring spirits off your household and finances!  My husband Mike and I can attest to this truth in our own life and finances!

When we tithed faithfully one year later we were debt free, our finances had increased and we never had another argument about money!

This also really grew my husband’s faith, he is a numbers man and wow did God really speak to him in this way.  Mike is now what I call a “Tithe Evangelist”!  He tells everyone he knows our tithing testimony and how God showed Himself Faithful!   God knew exactly how to reach Mike with this and wow he is a firm believer!

I know that many of you may have a spouse that does not want to tithe, but you do – so you can start to be an example to them – show them what God does for you when you give in a loving way, and then ask the Holy Spirit to reveal this to your spouse too!  I promise you the Holy Spirit will help you with your spouse if you ask Him!  Then the two of you can tithe in agreement to bless your household. (Get my prayer here to send the Holy Spirit to a loved one.)

Remember a tithe is different than an offering, a seed or first fruits.  Learn more here with my teaching on financial giving for the Kingdom of God.

Prayer For Grief and Loss – Healing and Joy Restored

Prayer For Grief and Loss – Healing and Joy Restored

Are you or a loved one struggling with grief and loss? Watch the video below and pray this powerful prayer filling in the blanks with the correct names and pronouns, as the case may be, for the one(s) in need of deliverance from a stronghold of grief!

 

Pray Out Loud

  • “Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I lift (myself/ _______) up to You, and I place (myself/him/her) in the blood of Jesus Christ. Lord Jesus, release the power of Your blood over (my/_______’s) mind, body, soul, and spirit. Father God, I ask, in the name of Jesus Christ, that You would send Your ministering angels to (me/_______) right now, – the same angels that ministered to our Lord in the garden – to minister to (me/him/her), to strengthen (me/him/her), and to pull off any arrows, daggers, knives, spikes – anything of the enemy. Remove all heaviness from (me/him/her). Remove every yoke of grief off of (me/him/her). 

 

  • Holy Spirit, I invite You and give You permission for a fresh anointing right now, for it is written, “The anointing breaks the yoke.” I command every yoke of grief to come off of (me/_______) now. (I/He/She) is only yoked to Jesus Christ, and His burden is easy, light, and joyful. (I/He/She) will know that (my/his/her) loved one is now in (my/his/her) cloud of witnesses in Heaven witnessing to the prayers of Jesus Christ for (me/him/her). (I/_______) will be strong and courageous and faithful and go forward and fulfill (my/his/her) purpose for the Lord and (my/his/her) faith will not fail (me/him/her), in Jesus Christ’s name.” 

The Bible says that we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses in Hebrews Chapter 12. Those are our loved ones that have gone before us and that are believers in Jesus Christ, and our children are taken right to Heaven. They’re in our cloud of witnesses. They are witnessing to your life. They’re witnessing to the prayers of Jesus Christ for you so that you will fulfill your purpose for the Lord, and so Jesus doesn’t want the grief to hold you back. He wants you to keep moving forward doing what He’s called you to do and even doing it in a way that you know your loved one is cheering you on now because it says the great cloud of witnesses is cheering you on to the victory, and you’re going to finish this race strong now. You’re going to finish this race strong! Your loved one is cheering you on from Heaven. 

I say this with love because I understand, but if we stay in grief too long, it keeps us from fulfilling our purpose for Jesus, and you don’t want the enemy to keep you in grief too long. How do we get this grief off of us? We’ve got to put it on the cross. 

Put Your Hands On Your Heart And Pray This Out Loud

  • “King Jesus, I invite you to step into this moment of time and redeem (me/_______). Redeem (my/his/her) mind, will, emotions. Redeem (my/his/her) heart. Redeem (my/his/her) soul, and be made manifest in it with Your glory light, Your joy, Your peace, Your shalom, and right now, I grab ahold of this grief that is in (my/_______’s) heart and in (my/his/her) soul, and I grab it off of (me/him/her) and place it on Your Cross, Jesus, and release it to You, Lord, in Jesus Christ’s name.”

Release it to Him. Release it off your soul. Release it off your spirit. Release that grief off your memories, and off of your cells. It’s on the Cross of Jesus now.

Now Hold Out Your Hands And Declare Out Loud 

  • “King Jesus, thank you for taking (my/_______’s) grief upon You, and now (I/_______) receive(s) of the joy of the Lord upon (me/him/her). (I/_______) receive(s) of the healing of the Lord upon (me/him/her). (I/_______) receive(s) a brand new healed heart. (My/His/Her) soul is healed and exalts the Lord. (I/He/She) think(s) on the joyous memories, in Jesus Christ’s name.”

Just receive of the joy of the Lord. Receive of the peace of the Lord. 

Declare Out Loud

  • “Lord, Your Word says that You are the Son of Righteousness that comes with healing in His wings, in His beams, and (I/_______) have/has so much joy. (I’m/He’s/She’s) like a calf released from the stall in a pasture, so I decree and declare that the Son of Righteousness has come upon (me/_______) with healing in His wings and in His beam. I pray this all in Jesus Christ’s name.”

Receive that healing light into your heart and into your soul. Receive of the joy of the Lord. You shall go forth in joy like a calf let out from the stall, jumping and leaping and singing for joy because the Son of Righteousness – King Jesus – has you.

Your loved one’s memory is a blessing. You focus on the good memories. They are cheering you on right now, and Jesus has taken this heaviness off of you. He’s taken this burden off of you because it’s time for you to go forward in your purpose.

Scripture Reference

Hebrews 12:1

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.”

Remember, all of Heaven is cheering you on, my friends! 

Prayer To Ask God To Reveal Your Assignment

Prayer To Ask God To Reveal Your Assignment

If you want to be used by the Lord, you’ve got to be prepared to be stretched. You’ve got to be prepared to come out of your comfort zone. Your own family may not like it, so you’ve got to be prepared for that, but you will be blessed and rewarded for your obedience.

A lot of people just start by doing the land prayer assignments with me as an act of obedience to the Lord to pray over the land, the gates, and the water. Some of you have made a ministry of that going all over your state and doing them.

If you are not sure how God can use you  for this time, just pray this prayer.

Pray Out Loud

  • “Father God, I submit myself to You and Your plans and purposes. I want to be obedient to what I’ve been called to do for Your kingdom. I ask, Father God, through Your Holy Spirit, that You would reveal to me what my assignment is and that Your Holy Spirit would train me up to do it. I ask You to give me favor and boldness and the finances to do it. I want You with me all the way, Lord, like You were with Moses, like You were with Joshua and Moses, like You were with King David, and most of all, Father, like You are with Your Son, King Jesus. Be with me in this way with Your Holy Spirit. King Jesus, I believe You are within me, working within me, and I can do all things through You. I’m not afraid. I know that it pleases You if I am obedient, Father, and I know that You will work on my family members with Your Holy Spirit. Show me where to start, Lord, and I will take the first step in faith, and I know that You will take two, and You will direct my path, all for Your kingdom and glory, in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen.”

If you prayed this prayer with me in faith, you have been activated. Begin to allow the Lord to show you. Some of it might not make any sense, but trust in Him. You may not feel worthy or perfect, but take imperfect action. Jesus will perfect it. Use these tools that we have for you. Learn how to take your seat of authority in Christ Jesus and suit up in your armor of God. You’ll be fine. We’re here to support you, love you, and encourage you through all of it. 

Prayer for the Manna and The Rewards Of Faithfulness

Prayer for the Manna and The Rewards Of Faithfulness

If you’re worried about finances or your children, if they’re prodigal or being irresponsible or how they’re going to pay their bills or how you’re going to pay your bills, etc., just know that sometimes we go through seasons of wilderness and trial because God is teaching us that He is our treasure. He is the one who sustains us and our children. He did it for the children of Israel with the manna. Our children and us will learn a lot when we go through hardships and see how God sustains us through them with His manna, His supply. We must learn how to overcome and stay calm in the process and believe that He is providing for you, your children, and your household.

Watch the video teaching below, and then proclaim the scripture, prayer, and declaration that follows.

 

Scripture Reference

“To him who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows except him who receives it.” Revelation 2:17

Pray Out Loud

Heavenly Father, Father God, I have been concerned about my finances, about how I’m going to pay my bills, keep food on the table, keep the lights on, and make sure that my children are taken care of – even my older ones. Father God, I trust You. I trust that You are providing and sustaining the manna – supernatural provision to me and my children and even more. You are growing us in the process. You are our treasure. You are our source of everything. You are bringing us out of this wilderness time, this wilderness season, and bringing us into our promises – the land of milk and honey of abundance! You are bringing me and my children to the good land of fruitfulness and abundance. 

Father, help us not to forget how You were the one who sustained us through this time. I am believing, Father God, for the promises, the generational promises for me, my children, and my household. Everyone who was in covenant with you, Father God, got land and provision, and I am in covenant with You through King Jesus, so I receive my land. I receive my harvest. I receive the abundance from every good seed that I have sown. I have peace, and I am calm because I know that You are my provider, O Lord, O God, and that all of Your promises are yes and amen. I receive the good promises of God – for me, my children, and my household – in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ! Amen! Hallelujah!!

Declare Out Loud

I am blessed! Praise the Lord!

My children are blessed! Praise the Lord!

My household is blessed! Praise the Lord!

My finances and my provision are blessed! Praise the Lord! 

Soul And Cell Healing

Soul And Cell Healing

The Lord has given me some deep revelation regarding healing and the soul-to-cell connection – how your bodily cells and your spiritual soul are directly connected in your healing. This revelation will help you as you pray for your own healing and in how to pray for the healing of others.

Watch the video teaching and read the helpful notes and outline of strategies for soul-to-cell healing that follow to learn more!

 

Notes

The Lord began speaking to me between September and November of 2023 about the sweet for the bitter.

In December of 2023, he gave me this beautiful song, “Sweet Jesus.” 

Sweet Jesus, sweet Jesus, You redeemed me. You redeemed me.

Like honey, like honey, I taste and see that the Lord is good. 

For the bitter, You gave me sweet. For the hunger, You fed my soul. 

For my thirst, You drew me close. Living waters, You revived me.

Sweet Jesus, sweet Jesus, You redeemed me. You redeemed me.

Like honey, like honey, taste and see that the Lord is good.

In January of 2024, God had me in a season of focusing on my health, and in mid-February, he had me update the Soul Cleansing Prayer to the Soul Cleansing and Healing Prayer and add the cellular part of releasing fear, strife, bitterness, and rejection, not just off your soul, but off your cells. 

At this point, I had not personally experienced the healing effects of releasing these things off of my cells/body yet, so I was just updating the prayer out of obedience to the Lord without having any prior experience in this area.

The Lord had me couple unforgiveness with bitterness to be “loosed off, detached, and released off my mind, heart, soul, spirit, physical body, and off my cell memory …” in this update.

I have done a lot of soul work to heal my soul and to forgive everyone who has hurt or wronged me over the past few years, and the Lord decided that I was in a season of going deeper because I had been praying for my healing, for deeper healing.

I didn’t realize that there was something so deep in me – a root of bitterness that was so deep in me that it was actually attached to my body and literally attached to my gut. 

I’ve dealt with gut issues for quite a while – food intolerances, food allergies, nausea, diarrhea, etc. It seemed that my gut issues also caused pain throughout my body. I would have abdominal pain that would radiate through my nerves, and I had sciatic pain and sometimes lower back pain. I didn’t know where it was coming from, the root of it. 

I was going to the Holy Spirit and asking Him to reveal what was going on, if those things were connected, and what I needed for my healing.

The other day, I had a chiropractic appointment, and I noticed that I was craving something sweet that morning, so Mike and I went to IHOP and I had pancakes for breakfast because I wanted the sweetness of the syrup. I didn’t realize at the time that it was a spiritual hunger I was having.

When I got to my chiropractic appointment, they put me on a different table than I’m normally on, and it was giving the chiropractor more leverage to work with me. As he was doing the usual adjustments, he said he felt something in the center of my back. He had me turn over, and he did a huge, different type of adjustment in the center of my back. I got a release that went through my body all the way through my entire center. It went into my gut and abdomen. It radiated up through my arms and down into my legs, and I felt it go up into my chest area too. I didn’t really understand what was happening at the time. 

When I got up off the table, I was okay. They had me go get on the waterbed-type massager, which is very relaxing and warm. All of a sudden, I had an overwhelming emotional response. I just wanted to cry and weep, and I knew something had been released off of me, that something emotionally had been lifted off of me.

I had Mike get me home, and all I wanted to do was lie down and rest. When the Holy Spirit says rest, then you need to rest. As I was lying there, I heard the Holy Spirit say, “finally,” like there was something deeply rooted in me that needed to come off my cells – something that was in my bones and in my cells that needed to be released.

You see, I had already done the verbal work – the commanding and taking authority over any bitterness and unforgiveness and repenting, but I did not know that this bitterness and unforgiveness was stored in the center of my body, deep in my cells – for years! It needed to be released. I had been praying it off. The Lord had me update the Soul Cleansing Prayer, and then He built me up to this moment of healing.

The Lord reminded me that Jesus would give people the movements to do when he healed them. He would instruct them to “stretch out your hand,” or “pick up your mat and walk,” things like that. He gave them actual movements to make. I discerned that when Jesus told them to stretch out something or pick up their mat and walk that there was a bitter root there and their cells had to be healed at the same time their soul was healed.

Now, I know for myself. This confirms in my spirit because it happened to me! And I asked the Lord why I was weeping and weeping so much. I just couldn’t stop weeping. I asked him on Friday morning if I should cancel the broadcast because I just felt like stuff was still coming off of me. I was still weepy and not exactly sure what was going on, and I felt like I needed to spend more time with the Lord. I realized I needed to continue to pray, to get scriptures about releasing bitterness and unforgiveness and continue to pray on that because something finally got to the root. 

The season that he had me in last fall talking about the sweet for the bitter was really about what was happening inside of me, not the things that were happening around me in my life. And I realized that I had a root of bitterness and unforgiveness inside of me that was very deep. 

God brought me through these three seasons with the word about the sweet for the bitter, worshiping with the Sweet Jesus song, and then updating the Soul Cleansing and Healing Prayer to get me ready, and when it was time, He made sure I was in the right place – at the chiropractor’s office – to help it get released off my body. 

You don’t have to go to the chiropractor to get the release. I believe that Jesus used the chiropractor, who is a Christian,  to just turn me a certain way to answer the prayer to release it off of my cells that had been bottled up in there. But it could happen for you as you are doing some kind of movement – bending or stretching – even as you do your chores, but it’s the praying and the asking for Jesus to release that root of bitterness and then the prayer that He had me write about commanding it off your cells as well as your soul that prepares the physical release.

I’m in awe of God right now, and now I understand why He had me write the prayer that way, to not just release the bitterness and the unforgiveness, but he had me put them together. At that time, I didn’t know why. I thought they were two separate things, but it’s because unforgiveness brings bitterness, and then bitterness grows a root in your body that attaches to your bones and cells.

Through this experience, the Lord revealed to me that we have to partner the physical activity with the soul healing and cleansing prayers because this has to come off of your cells.

It has been scientifically proven that the cells of your body have a memory. “Physiological and psychological sciences assert that bitterness sickens the body and damages bones, weakens the immune system (which is connected to the gut) as do all negative emotions. Referring to Proverbs 14:30 – “A sound heart (or healed soul) is the life of the flesh but bitterness is the rottenness of the bones.”

So as I was forgiving, commanding, and praying the soul cleansing prayers, it was loosening up that root because there was cellular attachment still. When the time was right and I did a physical act or movement (the chiropractic adjustment), it was released off of me.

We are kings and priests through Christ Jesus (the Melchizedek priesthood), which means we  can speak over our bodies and command our own healing. Jesus used words to command a healing.

We are temples of the Holy Spirit. He resides in us, and He is constantly telling us what to do to keep our bodies healthy. Because we’re temples of the Holy Spirit, He’s going to keep working in us and keep giving us revelation to keep praying and doing the movements and the strategies towards our healing because He is bringing us into wholeness. He is bringing us into shalem. If our bodies are healed and whole, we can fulfill our purpose for the kingdom of God.

A bitter root can also come on you because someone else spoke bitter, hateful words over you and caused a wound in your soul and a wound of bitterness to come into your bones and into your cells, so you have to forgive that person for those words or things they did and release them and command any cellular memory from those words to be released off of you, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Scripture References

Proverbs 14:10
“Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can share its joy.”

Note: The mind, heart, soul, and spirit are connected. It’s very difficult to truly be able to share joy if you have a root of bitterness in your heart. You can’t really experience or share joy if you have any root of bitterness, and this can go all the way back to when you were a little kid (or in your generational bloodline.)

Proverbs 14:13
“Even in laughter, the heart may ache and rejoicing may end in grief.”

Note: Even if you laugh and joke around, it’s just covering up the grief, unforgiveness, bitterness, and pain. You can tell jokes, watch funny movies, think positive thoughts, etc., but the bitter root must be dealt with at the soul-to-cell level for true healing.

Proverbs 14:30
“A heart at peace gives life to the body, but bitterness rots the bones.”

Note: The root of bitterness and unforgiveness soaks right down into your cellular level. Even if you say you’ve forgiven someone and you command the wound of your soul to be washed in the blood and healed and even ask for forgiveness of any bitterness and unforgiveness that you have, if you don’t get to the cellular part, there’s still a root there. So we have to do these prayers over and over again until we actually feel that physical release from physical activities like while stretching or doing some type of movement.

Meaning of Fourteen

The number fourteen means the generational promises and blessings of God. Understand that a bitter root can be passed down the family bloodline too, so it may not be because of your own personal experiences. You could have a bitter root that came from your parents or  grandparents, etc. This is a demonic plan of the devil to pass a bitter root from generation to generation with hateful, evil words and abuse, but you can root this bitter root out of yourself and your generational bloodline and release the generational blessings of God instead! 

Proverbs 16:24
“Kind words are like honey, sweet to the soul and healthy to the body.”

Note: Sixteen biblically means the reckless love of God – John 3:16, For God so loved the world that He sent His only son. 

Four Steps For Physical Or Emotional Healing

  1. Use the word – speak to your soul from the authority of Christ as a king and a priest commanding this bitterness and unforgiveness off of your soul. Use my Soul Cleansing and Healing Prayer to guide you in this. It’s also in my Vol 2 Prayer Book.
  2. Take a day to rest and converse with the Holy Spirit – ask Him who you need to forgive and what the root of bitterness is that’s in you.
  3. Physical action – do some stretching, twisting or simple calisthenics while commanding any bitter root – rejection, unforgiveness, etc – to be released off of your cells, in Jesus’ name. 
  4. Speak sweet words over yourself – this counteracts the hateful words that have been spoken, and now your cells, heart, soul, and spirit will be open to receive words of blessing. If your cells can receive the bitter, they can certainly receive the sweet!

Working With Children 

If you’re working with a child or young person who has been through a lot of abuse or bullying and has had a lot of hateful words spoken over them, pray the soul cleansing and healing prayer, lead them through forgiving the kids or people who bullied or abused them, and then have them do some physical activities like jumping jacks, stretches, etc and tell them to release it off of their tummy, their heart, and their bones, etc., and then decree sweet, blessed words over them. 

Sweet Words And Scriptures Of Comfort To Declare

I am loved by God.

I am blessed by God.

I command, by the authority of Jesus Christ, for my cells to receive the sweetness of God’s word.

I am not rejected. I am rescued.

I am adopted by Abba, Father. He sings over me.

The Lord loves me with an everlasting love.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made by God.

God has good plans for me.

God’s perfect love casts out all of my fear. I trust Him fully.

Nothing can separate me from God’s love.

God’s love surrounds me as a shield and keeps me safe.

Zechariah 3:17: “The Lord is in my midst, and He sings over me.”

Psalm 16:8-9: “I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure.”

Psalm 27:1: “The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?” 

Psalm 4:8: “In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety.” 

2 Timothy 4:18: The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and save me for his heavenly kingdom.” 

Psalm 119:103: “How sweet are your words to my taste, [O Lord Jesus,] sweeter than honey to my mouth.”