How to turn your bitterness into a blessing

We all go through disappointments with people.  Many have become disappointed with God.

A disappointment can turn into bitterness.  It eats away at you inside, a bitter taste every time your mind replays that disappointment.

Can God turn a bitterness into a blessing?  

ABSOLUTELY!

He can turn bitter water to sweet, and He can turn a bitter experience into a sweet taste in your mouth.

Here are four ways to experience a miracle cure for bitterness:

1.Focus on finding a close friend.

Bitterness isolates you in a world of thought, hatred, anger, regret, confusion. 

Blessing is about relationships with other people where there is joy, laughter, companionship, fellowship, love, and order.

Refuse isolation.  Ask God for someone to share your joys and your disappointments with.  Many will leave you after a disappointment, but “there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”

2.  Focus on favor instead of failure.

If you are not careful, the failure of disappointment will shadow you everywhere you go.  You start to anticipate other failures and disappointments!

Stop focusing on failure.  Focus on FAVOR.  God has someone He will put in your life that just particularly loves you, honors you, shares blessings with you.

God wants to show you that He is still smiling upon you and blessing you even after a terrible disappointment.

3.  Focus on becoming a blessing to someone else.

Disappointments turn us inward.  We become very self-focused, worried about our own needs.

To turn that bitterness into a blessing, focus on someone who you want to be blessed.

Start promoting their well being.  Work on their happiness.  Find them contacts and associations that will open doors for them.  Act like their agent!

When you turn your focus on another person's welfare, your personal bitterness seems to disappear.

4.  Focus on forgiving instead of repaying.

Vengeance is a dead end.  A bitter spirit plans ways to get even.

Whoever caused your disappointment, release them to God.  He will deal with those who hurt you.

If you keep bitterness in your heart, God cannot turn the situation around.  Pray for them.  Speak a blessing over them every time your mind fixates on them.

Moses threw a tree into the bitter waters of Marah and they immediately became sweet.

That “tree” is the cross.

We all have disappointments.  The question is, “Will I allow this to make me bitter…or will it turn out as a blessing?”