How To Be Thick Skinned And Love It'

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How To Be Thick Skinned And Love It.
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Who are you?
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The Elementary Principles of the World

• You are what you do.
• You are what people say and think about you.
• You are what you have.
• You are what you look like.
• You are what you know.

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• I am the salt of the earth. I am the light of
  the world. I am a child of God (part of His
  family). (see Rom. 816) I am part of the true
  vine, a channel (branch) of His (Christs) life.
  I am Christs friend. I am chosen and appointed
  by Christ to bear His fruit. I am a slave of
  righteousness. I am enslaved to God. I am a son
  of God (God is spiritually my father). (see Gal.
  326 46) I am a joint-heir with Christ sharing
  His inheritance with Him. I am a temple (home)
  of God. His Spirit (His Life) dwells in me. I am
  a joined (united) to the Lord and am one spirit
  with Him. I am a member (part) of Christs body.
  (see Eph. 530) I am a new creation (new
  nature). I am reconciled to God and am a
  minister of reconciliation. I am a son of God
  and one in Christ. I am an heir of God since I am
  a son of God. I am a saint. I am Gods
  workmanship (handiwork) created (born anew) in
  Christ to do His work that He planned beforehand
  that I should do. I am a fellow citizen with the
  rest of Gods people in His family. I am a
  prisoner of Christ. I am righteous and holy. I am
  a citizen of heaven and seated in heaven right
  now (see Eph. 26) I am hidden with Christ in
  God. I am an expression of the life of Christ
  because He is my life. I am chosen of God, holy,
  and dearly loved. I am chosen and dearly loved by
  God. I am a son of the light and not of
  darkness. I am a holy brother, partaker of a
  heavenly calling. I am a partaker of Christ I
  share in His life
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Let God Define you!
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• For you have died and your life is hidden with
  Christ in God.
• Col. 33

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• By union with Jesus Christ, we die the required
  death in Him, thus the penalty is paid and sin
  can never claim us again. We have thus died to
  sin in the sense of paying its penalty. Its
  presence and power still affect us but it cannot
  condemn us.
• John MacArthur

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Remember who you are in Christ!!

• Matt. 513 I am the salt of the earth.
• Matt 514 I am the light of the world.
• John 112 I am a child of God (part of His
  family). (see Rom. 816)
• John 151,5 I am part of the true vine, a
  channel (branch) of His (Christ's) life.
• John 1515 I am Christ's friend.-
• John 1516 I am chosen and appointed by Christ
  to bear fruit.
• Rom. 618 I am a slave of righteousness.
• Rom. 622 I am enslaved to God
• Rom. 814, 15 I am a son of God (God is
  spiritually my father). (see Gal. 326 46)
• Rom. 817 I am a joint-heir with Christ sharing
  His inheritance with Him.
• 1 Cor. 316 and 619 I am a temple (home) of God.
  His Spirit (His Life) dwells in me.
• 1 Cor. 617 I am a joined (united) to the Lord
  and am one spirit with Him.
• 1 Cor. 1227 I am a member (part) of Christ's
  body. (see Eph. 530)
• 2 Cor. 517 I am a new creation (new nature).
• 2 Cor. 518,19 I am reconciled to God and am a
  minister of reconciliation.

• Gal. 326,28 . I am a son of God and one in
  Christ.
• Gal. 46,7 I am an heir of God since I am a son
  of God.
• Eph. 11 I am a saint. (see 1 Cor. 12 Phil.
  11 and Col. I2)
• Eph. 210 I am God's workmanship (handiwork)
  created (born anew) in Christ to do His work that
  He planned beforehand that I should do.
• Eph. 219 I am a fellow citizen with the rest of
  God's people in His family.
• Eph. 31 and 41 I am a prisoner of Christ.
• Eph. 424 I am righteous and holy-
• Phil. 320 I am a citizen of heaven and seated in
  heaven right now (see Eph. 26)
• CoL 33 I am hidden with Christ in God.
• Col. 34 I am an expression of the life of Christ
  because He is my life.
• Col. 312 I am chosen of God, holy, and dearly
  loved.
• 1 Thess. 14 I am chosen and dearly loved by God-
• I Thess. 55 I an a son of the light and not of
  darkness.

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• But how do I keep from getting frustrated?
• How do I keep my emotions under control?

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Thinker vs Feeler

• 4 Truth Principles
• Know the truth
• Believe the truth
• Act on truth
• Feel truth

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Thinker
Feeler
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• Step 1
• Surrender

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• Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of
  God, to present your bodies a living and holy
  sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your
  spiritual service of worship.
• Romans 121

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• 1. Reckon your flesh crucified.
• 2. Surrender your rights.

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• Rights are things I have been made to believe
  are mine, and that God owes me this. God does not
  owe me anything. He gave me His own Son. There
  is a large difference between what God chooses to
  give and what He owes.

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• We tend to cling to or hang on to each of the
  following as rights in an effort to meet our own
  felt needs
• To operate according to our feelings.
• To a healthy body
• To make my own plans
• To choose where I Live
• To choose my recreation

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• Success
• To cling to the past
• To my habits
• Possessions
• Reputation
• Time
• Defy authority
• Acceptance
• To know the will of God

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• To a happy home
• To have no problems or difficulties
• To take offense
• To reap what I sow
• To be right
• To be loved
• To have visible security
• To be used of God
• To see results

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But scripture gives us only one right

• The right to the Lord Jesus
• and all that He is!

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• That One right is enough
• To understand that one right
• And all that it means
• Is beyond all that i need.

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Getting Control of Your Emotions
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• But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations,
  knowing that they produce quarrels.
• 2 Timothy 223

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• Well it should have happened.
• It could have happened.
• Im gonna make it happen

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Handling Your Emotions

• Demands vs. Desires
• demand something that has to be this way this
  way and no other way!
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• desire something Id really like to see
  happen, and Im going to give it my best effort,
  but I know going into it that things beyond my
  control can keep it from happening.
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Handling Your Emotions

• success (according to the world) measured
  strictly on the outcome of our performance.
  Based on level of income, education, job title,
  possessions, etc.
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• success (according to God) accepting Gods
  goal for our lives and by His grace becoming what
  He has called us to be (Romans 828,29). Gods
  purpose for us is to be conformed into the image
  of Christ. So success is Christlikeness, which
  is measured primarily by an attitude of total
  dependence on God (Phil. 413John 155).

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Godly Goals and Desires

• Godly Goal Any specific orientation that
  reflects Gods purpose for our lives that is not
  dependent upon people, or circumstances that are
  beyond our ability or right to control.
• Godly Desire Any desired result that is
  dependent upon the cooperation of other people,
  the success of events, or favorable
  circumstances.

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Goals vs Desires

• Gods purpose for me is to be conformed to the
  image of Christ (Romans 828).

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• The only person I have the right to control is
  me, and that is so hard that it is one of the
  fruits of the Spirit. Self-control only comes as
  I yield to the Spirit living the life of Jesus
  through me.

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Godly Goal

• It must be directly related to my walk with God.
• I am the only one who can keep it from happening.
• Everything else is a desire!

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Issues of Forgiveness
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You know dont you

• Ephesians 426 BE ANGRY, AND YET DO NOT SIN do
  not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do
  not give the devil an opportunity.
• topon noun accusative masculine singular common
  place (1) to denote a specif. and defined area
  district, territory, land, region fig. to refer
  to an opportunity, right occasion, chance (AC
  25.16).

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• 1. Unresolved anger turns to bitterness
• 2. Bitterness leads to depression and/ or
  despondency!
• 3. Bitterness leads to small world!!
• 4. Feet that run rapidly to evil!

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• UNCONTROLLED THOUGHTS
• EVIL THOUGHTS
• ACCUSATIONS
• LIES
• DEPRESSION
• ANXIETY
• PANIC ATTACKS
• VOICES
• INDIGESTION
• HIVES
• HEADACHES
• MANY KINDS OF SICKNESSES

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Forgiveness

• Matthew 69 "Pray, then, in this way 'Our
  Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.
  10 'Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth
  as it is in heaven. 11 'Give us this day our
  daily bread. 12 'And forgive us our debts, as we
  also have forgiven our debtors. 13 'And do not
  lead us into temptation, but deliver us from
  evil. ltFor Thine is the kingdom, and the power,
  and the glory, forever. Amen.gt' 14 "For if you
  forgive men for their transgressions, your
  heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 "But if
  you do not forgive men, then your Father will not
  forgive your transgressions.

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• Forgiveness is not forgetting!!
• Forgiveness is a choice!
• Forgiveness is between you and God!
• Forgiveness is costly!!

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• Forgiveness produces freedom!!
• Forgiveness is from the heart!
• Forgiveness produces fruit!

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• You must acknowledge the hurt and the hate!
• Don't wait to forgive until you feel like
  forgiving you will never get there.

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• Ephesians 432 And be kind to one another,
  tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God
  in Christ also has forgiven you.
• Colossians 313 bearing with one another, and
  forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint
  against anyone just as the Lord forgave you, so
  also should you.

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