Do you trust The Cross?

3 responses to “Do you trust The Cross?”

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   betterthanexpected2013

   August 25, 2013

   I trust the cross. When some doubt creeps in, I read on Grace or meditate on Grace or talk to God about Grace or study about Grace. I move to try to re-find my “Grace Place” where I find all the Fruit of the Spirit, so I know that I’m back to the Truth. I’m a very happy person in these last 18 months or so since I first heard a word from Joseph Prince. Thanks for the post. I need this message in different forms every single day.

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   betterthanexpected2013

   August 27, 2013

   Can you answer a question for me on one point of all this Grace stuff? Here I go. I’ll try to keep brief. I’ve always had a bad temper. But, I had developed something of a protection from having it hurt people too often. Many years before Grace, I had found a way to suppress my emotions so I could usually (but not always) not get overly angry. But it would build up inside. But after finding Grace, I found that I no longer needed/wanted to suppress my emotions. So, think of this as my “guard” being down that often protected me from getting upset to where I was, say, verbally abusive to my family,. etc. Well, after all this joy flooded in, I found I could stop suppressing my emotions. So, I have stopped doing this, which has made life so much more joyful. However, I find that with my “guard down” (meaning – I’m not suppressing emotions) I can get real surprised by a fairly violent (cursing, slamming things around, last night I even damaged a wall) outburst I’m not expecting. Do you have any comments on this? I am trusting that God knows what is going on and this will stop. But I wanted comments from a couple people who see The Gospel the way I do, like you. If you have no insight on this, fine. I’m going to ask a couple other people, too.

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      scorchingwords

      August 28, 2013

      In my experience, when I continue to act in a way that is not in line with the fruits of The Spirit, it has been due to an unhealed deep wound relating way back to a specific traumatic event in my youth / childhood. It has taken a counselor to get to the root and cause, to expose the wound so that Jesus may heal it.

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