 If you hold on to bitterness, if you have the right to hold on to bitterness, Satan has the right to hold you in bondage. If you say, I have the right to be bitter, I have the right to be mad, of what they've done, of what, you know, they didn't do, I have a right. You do, so is Satan. If you have a right to be bitter, Satan has a right to keep you in bondage. You may have a right, you may have a reason, but you must lay that right down so that you can strip the devil from his right to keep you in bondage. Somebody say, man, you gotta lay the right down. When we get betrayed, when we get rejected at a young age, or maybe we have an absence of the father or mother in our life, or maybe we get abused. Or if you have in that household where your parents want you to really be like your neighbor's kid. And they think that by comparing you every single day, it's gonna somehow motivate you to become better. They don't mean to compare you, they just want to motivate you, because nothing else motivates you. And you live with that comparison and after a while, you know, it begins to hurt. You're not good enough and it begins to affect your life. And when you begin to develop that offense, when you begin to develop that bitterness, when you begin to allow that pain to come and settle in and you hold on to that. Instead of letting it go and saying, God, this hurts. God, this is not fair. God, what did I do to deserve this? But God, I refuse to be mad. I refuse to hold on to that. I refuse to hold on to that pain. I refuse to punish somebody. I refuse to live my life trying to make them pay. I refuse to live my life that I surrender it to you. Something happens. Satan at that moment, the holder he had on you, the oil begins to flow on you and you become slicky. He can hold you. You begin to move out and he begins to hold you and you snap out because he doesn't have a grip. He can't have a grip because the oil of the Holy Spirit is being released on you. The moment you release people. The moment you release people from the prison that they have caused, put themselves into because of what they've done to you or left undone to you. The Holy Spirit releases oil and Satan can no longer hold you. See, the problem many times that happens is that Satan holds us with sins, bondages, alcohol, pornography, cheating, lying. It could be a self-destructive behavior. It could be a reckless behavior. It could be other bondages that Satan holds us with. But the power for him is actually what we hold on to. And so what we do is we keep praying, Satan, get your hands off of me. And God is saying, get your hands off of stuff that belongs to him. Unforgiveness is drinking a rat poison, hoping for a rat to die from it. A rat will not die when you drink that poison. The person who drinks it dies when you and I take the poison of the devil. And then hope for it not to kill us but to kill someone else. It empowers Satan even more.