Many of us have been deeply offended by painful experiences in our past. We often do not know what to do with that pain and a spirit of offense settles in our hearts. We may attempt to self-medicate the pain with drugs, alcohol, relationships, sports and other activities in an attempt to ignore the pain. When we continually suppress the pain instead of dealing with it positively, it festers until it consumes every area of our lives. The spirit of offense takes over and we become the kind of people who are always offended by everything, even things that should not offend us. If we find that we have a spirit of offense, we need a way out, a way to break free. God has a plan to help us break free. It is recorded in the story of a man named Nabal. Nabal's inability to break free of the spirit of offense had disastrous effects on his life. Through his story of bondage, we can find the secret to breaking free from our own spirit of offense.