Our Battle's simply need Prayer

“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

People are the leading cause of bad relationships, although certain species of cats rank a close second. 

There’s nothing like an unreasonable, angry, thickheaded person to leave you feeling unreasonable, angry, and thickheaded, which of course leads to someone having the coconuts to think that you’re unreasonable! 

Sometimes it feels as if life is a series of random encounters with irritable people. Trouble is, some of those irritable people go by the titles of Mom, son, husband, wife, friend, and especially our co-workers.

Q) How many of lives do you touch in a day, month, or a year? 

Interacting with others positively may improve it’s lasting effects and greatly impact others which will  expand your personal influence. The main reason your in the position of life right now is primarily based on our Heavenly Father.  

Acts 17:24-28

New International Version (NIV)

 ²⁴ “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. ²⁵ And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. ²⁶ From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. ²⁷ God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ²⁸ ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’^[a] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’^[b]

Q) Are you using your influence in every opportunity to exemplify a positive influence for Christ? 

It’s unfortunate that the very relationships that can bring the most joy and fulfillment are also the ones that can cause the most anger and grief. It’s not that surprising to learn that we invest so much in our least important relationships and take those problems to heart. We often react negatively to the stress that comes from relationship challenges.

It’s easier to get angry than it is to work out a solution. Anger provides us with the self-satisfaction of knowing that we are the injured party. The drama involved in playing the victim card is supposed to bring all those involved to feel sorry for the one offended. It's best to simply give in, if they know whats good for them. 

The trouble is that anger ultimately proves destructive both to our relationships and to ourselves. For many of us, it’s become the first line of interpersonal defense. Often, emotional anger spills over into physical rage. The fact that terms like work place bully, road rage, or hostile work enviorment,  even exist proves that.

Anger can be combated and relationships with others improved, but most people need to learn how. There are a variety of ways to improve your relationships and reduce your anger levels. 

1) BLAME GAME - What we must do first is seek the origin of anger. Most do try and reason things out afterward, but the conclusion they seek is justification rather than TRUTH. They actually manipulate their on soul and believe that there has to be some reason, or some person, OTHER THAN THEMSELVES who is the cause for our anger.

In TRUTH … It is and always be US that allowed this plague of the mind and heart to enter. The simple reason we get angry is that we feel someone or something wronged US. 

Therefore, it is a SELFISH reaction.

 THERE IS A LEASH ON ANGER ...

THE ONLY QUESTION IS ... WHICH END OF THE LEASH ARE YOU ON?

2) Meditation on the Gospel message of Christ can be a calming technique for anger and it can help you set and attain relationship goals.

God Bless

Brian Arthur Lampe