Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
When we are upset with another person, or offended by what that person said or did, or begin to strive in our heart and mind with that person, we can take bad seeds into our heart and at some time such will cause confusion and bad fruit to come from us.
If we are troubled by another person, this can cause resentment to come into our heart and it will affect the way we think of that person and pollute our own thinking.
If we fail to deal with each offence in a really spiritual way, we will strike out at that other person at some point in time. (It is like that snake in the grass who is just waiting, biding it's time, until the opening comes where he can attack.)
Jesus described it as follows:
Matthew 12:33-37 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
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Instead, the minute we are offended by another person, we need to "fall down" before God and pour out our heart to God in prayer, asking God to change our heart and give us a good heart toward the offender.
Otherwise we can destroy ourselves by their offense against us.
And if "our brother" trespass against us, Jesus says ... go and tell him his fault ... don't let it seethe inside your heart for days or years. (Notice this is the person who is "your brother" ... not people of this world.)
Matthew 18 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone. if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
And if "our brother" trespass against us, Jesus says ... go and tell him his fault ... don't let it seethe inside your heart for days or years. (Notice this is the person who is "your brother" ... not people of this world.)
Matthew 18 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone. if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
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