A viewer asked the following question on a recent broadcast: “Can unforgiveness cause sickness, like cancer?” 

Annamarie: Absolutely, YES! Unforgiveness is connected to bitterness, and the Bible says, “Bitterness eats away at the bones and the marrow.” Now, you take the word of God and you realize why Jesus said, “Forgive, forgive, forgive, forgive, forgive. Hold no bitterness, no offense, and no unforgiveness towards anyone.” Not just because it’s a sin but because it causes sickness. The Bible says that bitterness will eat away at the bones and the marrow. Our bones and bone marrow make red blood cells, healthy cells that fight against cancer and disease. 

So if a person is holding bitterness, anger, unforgiveness, or offense, it directly affects their health. Those aren’t my words. That is the word of God. So if you know a person who just will not forgive – they’re holding bitterness, anger, and offense towards a person, and they’re struggling with an infirmity, you can stand in the gap for that person. You can’t just bind the spirit of infirmity off of them. You have to get to the root of that infirmity.

Pray Out Loud

Holy Spirit, my helper, in Jesus’ name, will You lead _______ to repentance? Holy Spirit, do what only You can do. Convict him/her of his/her sins of unforgiveness, bitterness, offense, and anger, and lead him/her to repentance – a free gift for all of us. I thank You, Holy Spirit. You are faithful. You are my helper. Thank You, Father, for sending the Holy Spirit to help me with _______. 

Father, I present _______ to You, and I place him/her in the blood of Jesus. I stand in the gap for him/her, and I ask You to move him/her from the courtroom of judgment to the throne of grace and mercy, so he/she will be under grace and mercy while Your Holy Spirit works on him/her. I ask You to lift the veils off of his/her eyes and give him/her eyes of understanding. Enlighten his/her heart. I stand in the gap for him/her right now, and I bind the spirit of unforgiveness. I bind the spirit of anger. I bind the spirit of offense. I bind the spirit of bitterness. I bind the spirit of infirmity. 

And I loose and release the spirit of life on them. I loose the spirit of the living God on them. I loose dunamis power of the Holy Ghost on them. I release resurrection power on them to do a work in them and to bring them to their knees in repentance, in Jesus’ name.