Positive Quote for the Week-Choose what you respond to

Not everything deserves a response. When you learn to hold back before you react, it will save you from wasting even a second of your day over irrelevant situations. It will take some effort to adjust especially if you are the type to clap back at every offensive word and every harmful comment tossed in your direction. Learn to just brush off the hate. It takes so much more energy to retaliate than to just let it go.

You have to remember that the enemy will use the people around you to get you to develop negative emotions. He knows that if you are agitated enough your agitation will turn into anger, then bitterness, hate, and then eventually unforgiveness. These adverse feelings are open doorways for the enemy to come into your life and create chaos. It is never worth the repercussions that you will have to endure. Be cautious about what you are responding to.

Another thing you can do is take a second to outweigh the pros versus the cons; is their remark really worth any of your valuable time? Nine times out of ten it is not! The Word of God tells us in Ephesians 4:26-27, “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.” The word place being used in these passages means opportunity. In other words, do not give the enemy any opportunity to come into your life to wreak havoc!

Scriptures on Self-Control:

Galatians 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.”

Proverbs 25:28 “Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.”

Proverbs 16:32 “Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.”

2 Peter 1:5-7 “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.”

Proverbs 5:22-23 “His own iniquities entrap the wicked man, and he is caught in the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.”

If you’ve missed any of the other weekly quotes, no worries I am listing them down below:

Positive Quote for the Week: Let your words speak Life

Positive Quote for the Week: Intimacy with the Lord

Positive Quote for the Week: Hold yourself to God’s Standards

Positive Quote for the Week: Radiate God’s Love

Positive Quote for the Week: Unforgiveness will open the door to the enemy

Positive Quote for the Week: The Lord is Always right on Time!

Positive Quote for the Week: Let Christ is the reason for the Season

Positive Quote for the Week: The importance of Renouncing

Positive Quote for the Week: Repent and Turn Away

Positive Quote for the Week: Activate Your Faith

Positive Quote for the Week: Be Still

Positive Quote for the Week: Renew Your Mind

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