How Can Anger Be Helpful?

Managing emotions is required for a person’s well-being and for healthy relationships. Frustration, anger, and fear are emotions that can be helpful and good, provided they’re expressed in ways to encourage helpful resolutions.

Mismanaged emotions are notorious for being out of control and inflicting such harm that recovery may never be forthcoming. However, negative emotions can be helpful when kept under control. God’s word tells us to be angry but not to sin nor let the sun go down on that anger.

God intended for anger to be used as a means for encouraging communication, for relating what you think and feel, but in ways that are non-offensive, that do not criticize or condemn. In this way you obey God by not letting the sun go down on your anger. While obeying this rule is difficult, it is not impossible when Christ Jesus is present.

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Praise the Lord, my soul, and do not forget how kind he is. He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. He keeps me from the grave and blesses me with love and mercy. He fills my life with good things so that I stay young and strong like an eagle.

~Psalm 103: 2-5 Good News Bible

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How Is All You Possess Related to the Skills of Others?

Being able to express gratitude is dependent upon acknowledging that all you possess derives from the Lord God. I’m aware of the belief that if it were not for our education, intelligence, and work ethic, we humans could not possibly manage for our needs and ambitions. Have you thanked God for the privilege of work?

It’s important to realize what you have is directly related to other people’s talents and skills, like your phone and computer. Have you expressed gratitude and appreciation for the benefits that make your life pleasant? Think of all the medications that keep you and others healthy.

Your most important blessing is that God chose to call you to himself. Listen to David’s witness in 2 Samuel 22:17. “God reached down and took hold of me and drew me out of deep waters.” By faith in the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross you are cleansed for all eternity, so be thankful  and appreciative to God for his kindness. 

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Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits – who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies all your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

~Psalm 103:2-5 New International Version

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Extend Yourself to the Lord Who Heals

It's impossible to stay completely healthy 100% of the time. Yet because of our immune system, most bacteria and other germs do not cause illnesses. I realize there are those who worry excessively about germs and become germ-phobic, filled with fear and anxiety.

We live in a country where major illnesses are treatable. In addition, we have medications designed to aid in the healing process. One of the primary features of Jesus' ministry was his ability to heal those who were physically, spiritually, and emotionally sick. The name Jehovah-Rapha means the Lord who heals.

This name for God was expressed as he spoke to the Hebrew people, who been freed from Egyptian bondage. Listen to his words: "If you listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep his decrees, I the Lord Jehovah-Rapha will heal you.” Isn’t that good news?                               

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O my soul, bless God, don’t forget a single blessing! He forgives your sins – every one. He heals your diseases – every one…He wraps you in goodness – beauty eternal. He renews your youth – you’re always young in his presence.

~Psalm 103:2-3,5 The Message

 

Lord, heal me and I will be completely well; rescue me and I will be perfectly safe. You are the one I praise!

~Jeremiah 17:14 Good News Bible

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Your Best Day - Today!

It's not uncommon for a young person to use some creative measures to look older to someone who might frown on their youthful appearance. Young people are in a hurry to grow up, and the marketplace is eager to accommodate their rush into adulthood.

On the other side, aging cannot be denied, even as frantic efforts are undertaken to slow down or reverse the assault. Hiding aging is comparable to hiding other realities that impact your identity. Listen to Galatians 6:7. "What you plant, you will harvest. If you plant to satisfy your lower nature, your harvest will be the decay and death of that nature. If you plant the truth, you will reap the good things the Holy Spirit will give you.”

Each stage of life presents opportunities that may never again be available. "This is the day that the Lord has made so rejoice and be glad in it." These are words of hope and encouragement so rejoice and be available for what God has purposed for you to be.  

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Bless the Lord, O my soul,

And forget none of His benefits…

Who satisfies your years with good things,

So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

~Psalm 103:2,5 New American Standard Bible

Great is his faithfulness; his lovingkindness begins afresh each day.

~Lamentations 3:23 The Living Bible

Overcoming Obstacles

On his way to getting everything he wanted, Jacob encountered obstacles that brought his life to a dead end. It's important to realize God is not against your getting what you want if it doesn’t conflict with His moral and spiritual values. Jacob had consistently violated God’s principals and guidelines for living.

Although Jacob failed to get away with lying and cheating, the crisis it produced became an opportunity to change his life. This was his chance to turn an obstacle into an opportunity for a wonderful future. Jacob dreamed God would bless and protect him and give him the land that would become Israel as it’s defined today.

Another obstacle Jacob faced was separating from his mother, for he was his mother’s favorite son. God proposed a plan for Jacob to live under His protection rather than his mother’s care until Jacob was responsible and mature enough to act like a man. Can you see yourself living under God’s protection? It can be yours by committing your life to him.