Addicted to Control
Blessed + Bossed Up
Anchored Media Network
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this final episode of the Internal Harmony Series, we’re tackling the “big C word” — control. Control isn’t just a personality trait; it’s a spiritual stronghold that keeps us bound, quenches the Spirit, and robs us of God’s peace.
In this episode, I share a recent testimony about what happened when I surrendered control, unpack why the Bible calls us to release it, and walk through case studies of the Rich Young Ruler and Paul to show the difference between clinging to control and living surrendered.
You’ll learn:
- Why control is a stronghold and how it quenches the Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:19)
- How control shows up as a cognitive distortion
- The root issue of trust and how to rebuild it
- A practical Weekly Surrender Challenge to live this out
This episode will equip you to exchange control for surrender and experience the internal harmony God desires for you.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Blessed and Bossed up, presented by Anchored Media. |
| 0:05.5 | An entrepreneurship podcast for Christians all about how to make God the CEO of your business. |
| 0:12.1 | Get ready to be inspired, challenged, but well equipped to live and build your destiny his way. |
| 0:31.3 | Hey guys, welcome to another episode of the Blessed and Boss up podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | Today we are closing out our internal harmony series with the fourth psychological factor that keeps us from having internal harmony. |
| 0:41.0 | And that's control. |
| 0:42.5 | The big C word is the thing that a lot of us struggle with. |
| 0:47.3 | If you are new here, we have been doing this internal harmony series for the last few weeks. |
| 0:52.0 | It started because I was in my quiet time searching |
| 0:56.3 | for the harmony within my own life. I was praying and talking to the Lord about these |
| 1:02.6 | transitions that I'm going through with going back to school, having a new baby, all of the |
| 1:08.4 | things. And I wanted to just make sure that I was going into this new |
| 1:12.8 | season, not from a place of self-reliance, because it's very easy for me as a type A overachieving |
| 1:19.9 | person to get, when I get busy to just hop right into the logistics of things and the |
| 1:25.6 | busyness of things. And I can easily lose that pace of keeping |
| 1:30.6 | in step with the spirit. |
| 1:32.1 | And so me just understanding my own patterns and behavior that shift me out of the way that |
| 1:36.1 | the Lord wants me to operate, I wanted to be proactive about that. |
| 1:40.5 | So as I was talking to the Lord, what I realized is that in search of harmony, not balance, |
| 1:47.3 | I defaulted often to external harmony, the logistics, okay, the kids need this, they got to go |
| 1:54.6 | here, this is what my schedule needs to look like, BJ needs this, and this is when I'm going |
| 1:58.7 | to be here, and all of the different logistics of things |
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