390: When You’re Dealing with a Difficult Person
The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast
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🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends, Max here. Have you been feeling way down by worry or caught up in a web of self-critical |
| 0:06.8 | thoughts? You know, God has not left us alone in this battle of the mind. He made our brains. He can |
| 0:14.0 | retrain our brains. That's why I wrote this new book in Bible study entitled, Tame Your Thoughts, |
| 0:20.8 | three tools to renew your mind and transform. with this new book and Bible study entitled, Tame Your Thoughts, Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform |
| 0:24.9 | Your Life. We will explore three key thought management tools and then apply them to the most |
| 0:32.7 | common thought problems, worry, guilt, anxiety, and other types of mental quicksand that threaten to trap us. |
| 0:40.6 | You can listen to the audiobook or buy the book or six-week Bible study wherever books are sold. |
| 0:47.6 | Learn more at maxlicato.com slash tame your thoughts. |
| 0:55.7 | Access more. |
| 0:59.0 | Hi there, friend. |
| 1:00.7 | I hope you're doing well today. |
| 1:02.9 | What do you do when those you live with are hard to live with? |
| 1:07.5 | Maybe it's your spouse, your siblings, your neighbors, your co-workers. We all have |
| 1:12.2 | relationships that challenge us, and a difficult relationship can truly consume our thoughts. So, |
| 1:19.1 | let's just start there. To deal with a difficult person, consider how you think about them. |
| 1:29.9 | There you are in a crowded elevator. |
| 1:33.1 | When you first stepped in, there was ample space. |
| 1:37.2 | You could have done yoga stretches. |
| 1:38.9 | There was so much room. |
| 1:40.5 | But that was 16 floors ago. |
| 1:43.3 | Now, people are crammed on every corner. You're like sardines. |
| 1:49.5 | You're understanding what the apostle Paul meant when he wrote, we are hard pressed on every side. |
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