Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters. We're

devoting ourselves to the Lord daily with you. It's just me today folks who are picking

up with day three of our the enemies of the heart devotional and the Bible app. There's

link to it in the description of the podcast if you guys want to follow along and as always

I'm going to the scripture and this episode I'm also going to read the divot. The scripture

is Ephesians chapter four verses 25 through 27 and it says this. So stop telling lies. Let

us tell our neighbors the truth for we are all parts of the same body and don't sin by

letting your anger control you. Don't let the sun go down while you're still angry

for anger gives a foothold to the devil. The title of this devotional is letting go of

hurt and anger and it says this. The second enemy of the heart is anger. We get angry when

we don't get what we want. Show me an angry person and I'll show you a hurt person and

I guarantee you that person is hurt because something has been taken. Somebody owes them

something. We all know people whose anger could be verbalized in one of the following ways.

You hurt my reputation. You hurt my family. You wasted the best years of my life. You impacted

my marriage negatively. You robbed me of my teenage years. You robbed me of my purity.

You owe me this. You owe me an opportunity to try. You owe me a second chance. You owe

me love. You owe me affection, etc. The root of anger is in the perception that something

has been taken. Something is owed to you and now a debt to debt or relationship has been

established. Well, how about you? What debt is causing you to fill anger? The author continues.

How long are you going to allow the people who have hurt you to control your life? Another

month, another year, another season of your life? How long will you let this last? I'd like

to propose that today should be the day when you quit holding onto the hurt. While it's true

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