Get Your Music on Amazon!
Get Your Music - and everything else - on Amazon! All purchases made on Amazon through this link earn a commission for Jesusfreakhideout.com!

JFH Devotionals by J.M. Farro


The Foolishness of Resentment


"Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple." - Job 5:2 NIV

If I had seen the Scripture above years ago, before I entered into a deeply personal relationship with the Lord and began seeking His wisdom, I might have thought it was a gross exaggeration. But today, I know just how true it is. We see the effects all around us - angry, resentful, envious people reaping a bitter harvest of misery, pain, and disease. If I had my life to live over again, I would avoid these deadly emotions like the plague. But today, I am experiencing some of the unpleasant effects that negative emotions can have on a body and mind after many years.

When my husband had a massive heart attack some years ago, he was sent home with some medical information warning him against the number one destroyer of cardiac health. You might think it was smoking or being overweight, but you would be wrong, just as I was. It turns out that what does the greatest harm to our hearts is anger. I heard a godly man say that anger is a form of suicide. How can we refute such a bold statement when God says in His Word that "wrath kills a foolish man"? (Job 5:2 NKJV)

God can and does heal His people - and He has proven that to me personally many times. But we can shut the door against the flow of God's healing blessings when we allow destructive emotions like anger, bitterness, and resentment to take up residence in our minds and hearts. Proverbs says, "A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body, but envy, jealousy, and wrath are like rottenness of the bones." (Proverbs 14:30 AMP) Unlike the rest of the world, you and I have the power of the living God residing in us through the Holy Spirit to resist and refuse the emotions that can do us serious harm. Let's you and I make the most of that power, so we can live the joyful, peaceful, abundant lives that are our inheritance in Christ!

Prayer: Lord, cleanse me of all negative and destructive emotions, and help me to cooperate with You in the process. Heal me in every part of my body, and in every fiber of my being, and teach me to resist and refuse every attitude and mindset that would hinder my healing. Show me how to discipline my thoughts, and help me to reject every thought that would offend You, or that would do me harm in any way. Thank You that as I shun resentment, anger, jealousy, and envy, I will experience the unshakeable peace and unspeakable joy that are Your best for me!

- J. M. Farro

 

go to main Devotionals page
go to Devotionals archive

 

 

                 
Check out JFH's Lloyd in his first-ever childrens book!

Search JFH



This Sunday, May 4, 2025
ALBUMS
Bride Lost Reels 4 (independent)
Bride Vipers and Shadows (independent)

This Tuesday, May 6, 2025
ALBUMS
Gable Price & Friends Post Credits Scenes - EP [Capitol CMG]

This Wednesday, May 7, 2025
SINGLES
Grace Graber Better Now - Single (independent)

This Friday, May 9, 2025
ALBUMS
Zacardi Cortez Ibhar: He That Is Chosen [ZetRoc Ent/BlackSmoke]
Forrest Frank Child of God II [River House/10K]
Olivia Lane Songs About Jesus [BEC]
Joel Vaughn Testify - EP [DREAM]
Brandon Watson Too Far Gone - EP (independent)

SINGLES
7eventh Time Down Fly, Fly Away - Single [BEC]
ANTHNY Stay - Single [Provident]
Blanca Safety (feat. CalledOut Music) - Single [Curb]
C4 Crotona Through the Tears (ft. Joseph SD) - Single [Syntax]
Dubem HP - Single [Syntax]
K3hlab Maturity - Single [Syntax]
My Place Was Taken Altar De Moloc - Single [Rottweiler]
NXTMIKE Dove - Single [Syntax]
Share Your Voice Louder (feat. Righteous Woods, Leanne Flores, Makara) - Single [DREAM/DBMIX]
Kierra Sheard RAIN - Single [Tribl]

Next Friday, May 16, 2025
ALBUMS
Confessions of a Traitor This Pain Will Serve You [Facedown]
Free Worship Praise Before It Happens [BEC]
GVTH DVDDY GVTH DVDDY [Velvet Blue]
Karen Peck & New River Good Answers [Daywind]
Lecrae & Miles Minnick Get Well Soon! [Reach]
Seventh Day Slumber Fractured Paradise: Garden of Shadows [Rockfest]
Sons of Sunday Sons of Sunday [Elevation]

SINGLES
Makara Walk By Faith - Single [DREAM/DBMIX]
Melissa D Will I Be Bored in Heaven? - Single (independent)
Matt Sassano My Armor - Single (independent)
Seph Schlueter Won't Start Now - Single [Provident]

VINYL
Petra The Best For Last (Studio Edition) Vinyl [Girder]



For all release dates, click here!
 

Join honey and save on online purchases!
Get all of JFH's indie compilation now totally free!
Check out depositphotos for royalty free images