Behind The Mask: Conflict
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Mask
- a covering worn to conceal one’s identity. - a grotesque or humorous false face worn to disguise or conceal; hide; dissemble: to mask one’s intentions.
Reference
2 Corinthians 4:2 MSG
We refuse to wear masks and play games. We don't maneuver and manipulate behind the scenes. And we don't twist God's Word to suit ourselves. Rather, we keep everything we do and say out in the open, the whole truth on display, so that those who want to can see and judge for themselves in the presence of God.
Reference
Proverbs 14:13 AMP
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is heaviness and grief.
Examples of Mishandling Conflict:
- Try to DOMINATE - Try to IGNORE it - Always WHINE about it - White Flag it - You END it
Reference
James 4:1-3 NIV
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Behind The Mask
The earth was never designed to satisfy all of your desires. People will never satisfy all of your desires.
Look Within Myself
Matthew 7:3-4 NIV
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
Behind The Mask
We judge ourselves based on our intentions, but we judge others by their actions.
Talk to God First
Philippians 4:6-7 NIV
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Reference
Proverbs 18:13 AMP
He who answers a matter before he hears the facts--it is folly and shame to him.
Reference
James 1:19 NIV
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,
4 Things To Try:
1) Look within Myself 2) Talk to God First 3) Let God do a work in Me
Reference
1 Peter 1:6-7 NLT
So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.
4 Things To Try:
1) Look within Myself 2) Talk to God First 3) Let God do a work in Me 4) Stop expecting from people what can only come from God
Reference
Psalm 33:22 NLT
Let your unfailing love surround us, LORD, for our hope is in you alone.