Bitterness and Unforgiveness MUST end for Restoration to Begin

I have been involved in many ways in the body of Christ outside of what you might expect for an older white German descendant from North Dakota.  It has become now my preferred environment as a Christian when engaged in Worship and the Word.   I love worship and the Word when my Black Brothers and Sisters are flowing. There is nothing like it.

Yet, there is one thing I have become aware of as a prophet that is a substantial hindrance, even a bondage to many in the body of Christ... particularly among African Americans. Christians in the Church who are part of that community are operating under a generational curse that is reinforced by misleaders.  Please let me explain.  It's deep and very painful to grasp.

Way before my ancestors came to this country on a ship and way before most of our grandparents were born there were law put in place that made illegal the practice of owning humanity for your own purposes.  Slavery.

For a brief period there was a flow during which there seemed to be restoration.  Great leaders who's names we recognize came to the fore.  They fought the battle and won.  Here is an article defining who they were.

We still have great achievers, inventors and innovators, but that has become more the exception.  This should not be.  Something is not as it should be.

It's been a long time, yet in trying to grasp this, much as been revealed.  We are all very familiar with the detrimental effects of bitterness and unforgiveness on an individual.  We can cast it out, we can get people to renounce their bitterness.  They can deal with it.  It's a common thing.

I don't think people recognize how bitterness and unforgiveness can affect a whole culture.  That is what we are seeing. 50 years ago the black culture was making progress, it was difficult, there were obstacles there was rampant racism, but people emerged victorious.  People were coming out of the difficulties and creating successful communities that rivaled any other group of people.

Then a demonic influence began to foster resentment, bitterness and unforgiveness.  It has crippled the community so badly as to make it nearly impossible to emerge from the depths.  A few do.  Some are successful.  But the back story constantly retold that reinforces the bitterness and unforgiveness has made it ten times more difficult.  If you entertain them, these demonic strongholds will keep you captive, you will struggle and fail.  This will take a major deliverance to distance you from your connection with these demonic strongholds.  It will be one at a time, but then whole groups will see what it takes and be set free.

Make no question, the issues of the past are real, but they are amplified to the point in people's spirits where they have become a bondage in themselves.  There are inequities and racism, but that has always been the case. 

If restoration is to come to the community at large, the bitterness and unforgiveness that has become so dominant, particularly since the Trayvon Martin murder, must be confronted.  This has dialed back any hope many have of getting out of poverty and lack.
The race baiting industry continues to pick the scab of resentment, bitterness and unforgiveness.  There must arise a new movement of leaders who will speak of restoration driven by the very things that drove those great souls to greatness.  They will confront the underlying spiritual disorder that infects the community and the culture.  Bitterness, Unforgiveness and Resentment.

We have some such today, but far too few.  It's time to break out of the victim mold and become what God intended.

That cannot happen however as long as bitterness and unforgiveness remains deep inside.

Come out!!

In Jesus Name.