23. Monday Meditations: Fighting
MIDWEEK RISE UP
Erika Kirk
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🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Our primary mission field begins within our own homes and circles of friends and family. Oftentimes, this area of our lives is where we experience the most conflict. Without even realizing it, we can wrongly take things out on the people we love and feel secure with because we know their love is unconditional and we take it for granted. It's critically important to take a step back in these situations and remember: your spouse, your child, your friend is not the enemy. The enemy is the enemy. Allow God to rule over your actions and your words. Be intentional about these critical things, especially with those you love, whom God has entrusted to you. Those people are in your corner to help you and love you, not hurt you, and you need to steward those relationships in the same way.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, happy Easter Monday. I hope that you had an amazing Easter celebration with your friends and your family, |
| 0:07.0 | celebrating the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is risen. We have so much to be grateful for, so much to be thankful for. So to start off the first day of the month, we are going to be meditating on the word fighting. |
| 0:24.4 | The fighting we'll be pondering today refers to angry corals as opposed to physical altercations. |
| 0:29.8 | Let me just set the record straight there. |
| 0:31.8 | Philippians chapter 2 versus 14 through 15 instructs us this way. |
| 0:36.9 | Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be |
| 0:41.0 | blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted |
| 0:46.7 | generation among whom you shine as lights in the world. |
| 0:51.9 | An interesting little statistic that I'll follow up with that is that according to a |
| 0:55.7 | Gallup study that was published last month in March, so March 24, only three and 10 U.S. adults |
| 1:02.5 | attend any type of religious services regularly. And of those that categorize themselves as |
| 1:08.1 | Protestant and Christian, only 30% attend services every week. |
| 1:13.4 | And then if you hop over to Pew Research, it repeatedly found that Gen Z is the nation's |
| 1:18.5 | least religious generation, with a third having no religion at all, which is not surprising |
| 1:23.7 | considering what we hear and see in the news all the time. The church is rapidly shrinking. |
| 1:28.8 | There is no doubt about it, and that's horrifying. And you've probably heard the phrase, and I've said |
| 1:33.3 | it before, you're the only Bible that some people will ever read. And that truth is of vital importance |
| 1:39.1 | both now and with respect to future generations. How you treat others and how you handle conflict impacts those around you dramatically. |
| 1:49.0 | Our primary mission field begins within our own homes in circles of friends and family. |
| 1:54.0 | And oftentimes, this area of our lives is where we experience the most conflict without even realizing it. |
| 2:00.0 | And we wrongly can sometimes |
| 2:02.0 | take things out on the people that we love and feel secure with because we know that their love |
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