Welcome to the best of Keep the Heart from 2021. The first episode of our new podcast aired on January 21st of this year. As of December 21st of 2021, Keep the Heart has had over 170,000 downloads, but three rows to the top out of 52 main episodes. Today you'll hear the third

most downloaded episode of 2021, Signs of a Controlling Person. It was a close contest. This

episode only missed second place by two downloads.

If you missed this, now you can catch it.

But if you heard signs of a controlling person back in July of 2021, then this will be a refresher.

Listen as this episode covers three signs of a controlling person along with suggested solutions to this common but exhausting habit.

Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker.

Sharing lessons from the Word of God is her passion. Now, back to today's important study.

I don't think we really want to be controlling. It's more like a tendency that comes with our

carnal nature and it feeds off of imaginations that we know what's best. How can we imagine that

we're in control when we can't even tell ourselves what to do? I mean, how many times if you said to

yourself, don't say it? And then you went ahead and

blurted out the statement that led to an argument. We can't even boss ourselves around. Being in

control of life's circumstances is an illusion and a delusion. We can trick ourselves into believing

that if we manipulate situations just right,

things will turn out according to our desires. The problem with this plot is that we're out of

line. People with control issues also have major trust issues, and the lack of trust starts with

God, and then it works its way down into other relationships.

How can we learn to let go of our controlling tendencies?

First, we need to recognize the signs, and then we can pray for wisdom to step aside

and pass the controls back to God where they belong.

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