This is the fifth lesson for this series.

God wants us to become familiar with this book called Biblical Foundations of
Freedom: Destroying Satan’s Lies with God’s Truth by Art Mathias.
We will learn about the following:
•Release from the Principality of Unloving Spirits or Self-Bitterness through Prayer

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Pastors, teachers and parents often teach us to consider ourselves “as
nothing.”
If we condemn, hate, and belittle ourselves then how are we to love our
neighbors, spouses, and families as ourselves?
“Self” is defined as one’s own person, an individual. This is where the
battle of the 2 Kingdoms or Laws of God and sin nature rage - within
ourselves.
The Unloving Spirit or Kingdom of Self is the principality of self-
bitterness and it has strong armor: self-pity, self-abuse, self-rejection, self-
hatred, competition, self-pride, self-enthronement, false piety, self-
exaltation, attention getting, excessive talkativeness, insecurity, self-
mutilation (cutting), excessive eating and bingeing, self-comparison, self-
idolatry, perfectionism, and self-torment.
We must choose which Kingdom rules over ourselves the Kingdom of
God or the Kingdom of Self which leads us to a path of self-bitterness and
self-hatred that violates God’s commandment.

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Competition and self-comparison always result in bitterness either toward
another or our self.
Self-enthronement is also known as Narcissism since it is related to self
absorption where we are the focus of everything that interests us.
False humility often finds its roots in a misunderstanding of the Bible’s
teaching about preferring others above oneself. “Oh well, it was nothing”
instead of a simple “thank you.”

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Self-retaliation – we react strongly and negatively to anyone who accuses
us and we feel rejected by them which we can expect because we have
developed a need to be rejected.
Victimization is actually a type of control which gains us attention and
support outside the abusive relationship since there is sympathy for
victims.

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Learning to be free from an unloving spirit requires looking beyond
ourselves, and really seeing others. It gives us the ability to look at those
who have rejected or victimized us, and realize they have serious
problems of their own. It is the ability to separate the sin from the sinner,
and gives us the ability to forgive and have compassion on them. If we
can see our true Godly nature, then we will not act ungodly.

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Pass out Prayer of Release from the Principality of Self-Bitterness sheet
so we see the list of evidence and we can write down the name of a person
that we need to forgive and then what the Holy Spirit may reveal at the
end of the prayer time.
Let’s all pray this prayer out loud together.

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At the end listen to what the Holy Spirit says about this release from the
Principality of Self-Bitterness and write it down for later prayers.
Use the Prayer of Release from the Principality of Self-Bitterness sheet to
continue to review any evidence of self-hatred that may be bothering us
and pray this prayer for full release at home.

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This is fifth lesson for this series.
God wants us to become familiar with this book called Biblical Foundations of
Freedom: Destroying Satan’s Lies with God’s Truth by Art Mathias.
We still need to learn about the following:
•The Major Strongholds or Principalities of Satan and Prayers for Overcoming
•Principality of Jealousy & Envy
• Principality of Rejection
• Principality of Fear
• Principality of Occultism, Pharmakia & Sorcery
• Jesus Christ our Kinsman Redeemer
• The Armor of God
• Our Power and Authority in Christ

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