This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This Podcast. Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees and make

straight paths for your feet so that what is lame may not be put out of joint

but rather be healed. Strive for peace with everyone and for the holiness

without which no one will see the Lord.

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God,

that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and by it many become

defiled that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau who sold his birthright

for a single meal Hebrew Hebrew is 12, 12 through 16.

Hey, hey, how are y'all doing today? I just wanted to say hi, I'm starting

this podcast to talk about bitterness and I feel like I just need to be in the best mood and so chipper and be like,

whoa, we're so glad you're here because this is heavy.

So maybe you were bitter at me right now for being annoying on this podcast. I don't know but I just had to start that way because

Oh, it does feel like the world so angry and I'm actually really happy today and I'm excited to be with you guys and I'm thankful that you're

here so let me start off this podcast the opposite of bitter with a lot of gratitude

and just tell you thanks for being here and I don't take for granted that tens of thousands of you hang out with us every week and it's crazy.

In fact, way more than that. It's wild how many people are here listening to this and I'm grateful. So thank you, thank you.

All right, here's where we're going to go. We are going to talk about bitterness and what I want to say

about this is that it's possible that you're going to listen to this and you're

listening because you know somebody that lives this way and you're going to

think to yourself you know what I'm never bitter I never struggle with that I

hope to bust your bubble on that because I think we all struggle with that. I hope to bust your bubble on that because I think we all

struggle with bitterness and I think it's so subtle. I think it's something in our

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