Ruth Potocean

“Grace is even powerful enough to heal offenses, resentment, hatred, and any deep, bitter root in your soul. Look at this proof: Exercise foresight and be on the watch to look [after one another], to see that no one falls back from and fails to secure God’s grace (His unmerited favor and spiritual blessing), in order that no root of resentment (rancor, bitterness, or hatred) shoots forth and causes trouble and bitter torment, and the many become contaminated and defiled by it. —HEBREWS 12:15 I love this verse for so many reasons. First of all, it admonishes me never to fall back from grace, because when grace is operating in my life, it can prevent bitter roots from growing in my soul. When you let bitterness, resentment, rancor, or hatred gain a foothold in your life, trouble and torment follow. The root of the word trouble in Hebrews 12:15 is ochleō in the Greek. It means “to be vexed, molested, troubled: by demons.”16 Don’t forget that a soul wound causes you to have something in common with the enemy. Your wounded soul gives Satan the legal right to vex, molest, and trouble you. But grace heals the roots of bitterness in your inner man and kicks the devil to the curb.”
― Katie Souza, Be Revived: Defeat the Spirit of Death With the Power of Life

“In Psalm 37:5, David said, “Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will do it.” More literally, the verse says, “And He is doing it.” Two things are here required of us. The first is an act: “commit.” The second is an attitude: “trust.” The act of commitment leads to the attitude of trust. David assured us that, as long as we continue in this attitude of trust, God “is doing it.”
― Derek Prince, The Power of Faith: Entering into the Fullness of God’s Possibilities

“Then the Angel of the LORD admonished Joshua, saying, “Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘If you will walk in My ways, and if you will keep My command, then you shall also judge My house, and likewise have charge of My courts; I will give you places to walk among these who stand here.’” —ZECHARIAH 3:1–7, NKJV”
― Katie Souza, Be Revived: Defeat the Spirit of Death With the Power of Life

“When I asked the Holy Spirit what I was seeing, He said it was evidence of every single time I broke the law. Shortly after seeing this, I was visited by the spirit of death! Satan is a legalist. The number-one weapon he uses against you is your lawbreaking. He will use any and every transgression against you in court, even what the Bible calls your “hidden” and “unconscious” faults (Ps. 19:12). Absolutely no one is exempt from his accusations.”
― Katie Souza, Be Revived: Defeat the Spirit of Death With the Power of Life