ContinuingCorletta Posted April 30, 2019 Group: Senior Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 140 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 582 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 849 Days Won: 2 Joined: 01/10/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted April 30, 2019 How do we avoid being angry with those who make no effort to avoid pushing your buttons again and again? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted April 30, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.88 Content Count: 43,784 Content Per Day: 6.23 Reputation: 11,227 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted April 30, 2019 Pray for them. Ask the Lord to work on your heart. Forgiveness isnt always easy but it can be done with the Lord's help. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted April 30, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,989 Topics Per Day: 0.49 Content Count: 48,687 Content Per Day: 11.89 Reputation: 30,342 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted April 30, 2019 2 hours ago, ContinuingCorletta said: How do we avoid being angry with those who make no effort to avoid pushing your buttons again and again? We forgive them because that is what the Bible tells us we should do. Not for their benefit because they don't care but so bitterness and anger does not eat us up. We pray for them and also so God will remove the anger from our heart. We put them in God's hands. They will have to answer to God. We do not have to have contact or a relationship with that person ever again. We are not door mats so we do not need to be trampled on over and over again. Toxic people are not happy. 1 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted April 30, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 0 Topic Count: 897 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 9,621 Content Per Day: 2.03 Reputation: 5,821 Days Won: 9 Joined: 04/07/2011 Status: Offline Share Posted April 30, 2019 2 hours ago, ContinuingCorletta said: How do we avoid being angry with those who make no effort to avoid pushing your buttons again and again? Dr. Rick Rigby's "The Wisdom of a Third Grade Dropout" (speech online and his book by the same title). God bless. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who me Posted April 30, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,272 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 1,677 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/27/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted April 30, 2019 15 hours ago, ContinuingCorletta said: How do we avoid being angry with those who make no effort to avoid pushing your buttons again and again? Speak to them and tell them how offencive/hurtful you find there actions/words and ask them to stop. If they don't or won't ask a church elder to come with you to talk to them. If they still won't change, have nothing to do with them. Sit else where in the church, unfriend in facebook etc etc etc. Finaly commit the whole situation to God. Tell him about your frustratioin, your hurt, feelings of rejection etc ask God to challenge them in how they behave and pray seriously for their good. Note, You Do Not have to forgive them. All you have to do is commit them over to God, them and all your feelings about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOrangeCat Posted April 30, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 57 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,382 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 1,797 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/24/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted April 30, 2019 Within the church there's a protocol for dealing with people in error as mentioned in Matthew 18:15 and onward, but I think it works out nicely for personal relations in general. Talk to them alone, then talk to them with two or three others present, then take it before the church if you still need to. After that if the problem persists you don't have to have anything more to do with them. Even for dealing with people outside of the church the general principles are valid. You can forgive a person but you don't have to expose yourself to them if they've proven to be a constant problem. One way of demonstrating your forgiveness is to pray for them. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ContinuingCorletta Posted May 1, 2019 Group: Senior Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 140 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 582 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 849 Days Won: 2 Joined: 01/10/2018 Status: Offline Author Popular Post Share Posted May 1, 2019 I will forgive because I want to be forgiven. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ContinuingCorletta Posted May 1, 2019 Group: Senior Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 140 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 582 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 849 Days Won: 2 Joined: 01/10/2018 Status: Offline Author Share Posted May 1, 2019 7 hours ago, Who me said: Speak to them and tell them how offencive/hurtful you find there actions/words and ask them to stop. If they don't or won't ask a church elder to come with you to talk to them. If they still won't change, have nothing to do with them. Sit else where in the church, unfriend in facebook etc etc etc. Finaly commit the whole situation to God. Tell him about your frustratioin, your hurt, feelings of rejection etc ask God to challenge them in how they behave and pray seriously for their good. Note, You Do Not have to forgive them. All you have to do is commit them over to God, them and all your feelings about it. I have forgiven this person because I want be forgiven by the Father for times I've done wrong. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnthebaptist Posted May 2, 2019 Group: Non-Conformist Theology Followers: 6 Topic Count: 118 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4,361 Content Per Day: 2.35 Reputation: 2,109 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/25/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/03/1953 Share Posted May 2, 2019 On 4/29/2019 at 7:58 PM, ContinuingCorletta said: How do we avoid being angry with those who make no effort to avoid pushing your buttons again and again? If pushed into a corner, you can tell them what's on your mind. It's better than letting it build up till you blow up. And it's wise, I think, to have as little to do as possible with such people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Bought 1953 Posted May 2, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 13 Topic Count: 48 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 6,726 Content Per Day: 2.92 Reputation: 6,258 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/03/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted May 2, 2019 Two things come to mind: Kill them with kindness.....Paul said to be extra kind to these people , it should be like “ putting burning coal to their heads” You could just give it to God.....“Vengeance is mine— I shall repay” Dont forget to pray for the jerks.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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