John 2:15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. Anger is a normal and healthy emotion but the reason behind it makes it healthy or hideous. “Anger that leads us towards responses, that help us...
Category: Spiritual Motivation
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24 October 2024 – Anger Management – Part 4
Psalm 37:8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil. “Healthy people experience anger, but they can suppress it before acting on it.” Anger is a survival instinct and a necessary emotion however when it gets out of control it is destructive. A person goes through the primary emotions...
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23 October 2024 – Anger Management – Part 3
Proverbs 22:24-25 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared. Anger is a contagious emotion. If we are around a hot-tempered person who is irritable and snappy, our emotions will be influenced by them, if we are not...
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22 October 2024 – Anger Management – Part 2
Genesis 4:5 But He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell. The human angry face is the “signaling function”; it exposes the person’s erratic emotional surge and the physical ability to fight. The human angry face communicates interpersonal hostility by lowering the eyebrows, widening the nose or pressing...
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21 October 2024 – Anger Management – Part 1
James 1:19-20 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Anger is an intense primary emotion. It is an antagonizing emotion to pain and a reactionary emotion to express negative...
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20 October 2024 – Associations & Affinities – Part 7
Acts 4:13 “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.” “Character is like pregnancy, you can’t hide it forever” – African Proverb. If we walk through a perfume factory we will carry the...
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19 October 2024 – Associations & Affinities – Part 6
Genesis 13:10 & 11b Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)… The two men parted company: The company we choose to be in would determine our...
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18 October 2024 – Associations & Affinities – Part 5
James 4:4 You adulterous people! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. Our relationship with the Lord is like a marriage covenant. He must always be first...
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17 October 2024 – Associations & Affinities – Part 4
Daniel 1:8 But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. “Tell me your friend and I’ll tell you who you are” – Spanish Proverb. “Ghrelin” is the “hunger hormone” that communicates to our brain that we...
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16 October 2024 – Associations & Affinities – Part 3
Mark 5:39-40 He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him. After He put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. “Talk unbelief,...