Emotional maturity: How to Learn and Grow From Every Opportunity

Changing Your World Podcast with Creflo Dollar

World Changers Church International

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

An important sign of how mature we are is the ability to control and manage our emotions. God gave us feelings; however, He never meant for them to govern our lives. An emotionally mature person has reached an understanding regarding their thoughts and behaviors, and is therefore able to decide how to best approach an otherwise challenging situation. When we reach this stage, we can find successful solutions to our problems without letting them overwhelm us. In life, we all make mistakes; the key to growing in maturity is learning from them. If we go through something but have no takeaways from it later, we stay the same; by contrast, seeing our mistakes as learning opportunities makes us stronger and wiser. Whenever we make a bad decision, letting God teach us what He wants us to learn from the consequences allows Him to grow and mature us.

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Creflow Dollar and this is the Creflow Dollar Ministries podcast.
0:05.2	I want to thank you for joining us today and I sincerely hope this word encourages you,
0:10.6	builds your faith and above all else helps you to understand grace and empowers you to change.
0:17.0	Enjoy the message.
0:19.0	We're going to pick up with the series on emotional maturity and this is this is going to be pretty good
0:26.7	for you tonight I think you can really eat it good emotional maturity just
0:31.5	in review it's all about your ability to understand and manage your emotions.
0:36.8	So we talk about emotional maturity it's about your ability to understand and to
0:42.4	manage your emotions. about your
0:43.2	emotions.
0:46.0	Now God gave us emotions, but he never meant for emotions to govern our lives.
0:51.8	So we have emotions.
0:53.3	A lot of times Christians try to pretend like they are emotionless.
0:58.6	We have emotions.
1:01.4	God just wants to make sure that emotions don't have you.
1:05.0	Okay?
1:06.0	All right, so an emotionally mature person, we're talking about learning how to be emotionally mature and emotionally mature person has reached a level of self-understanding with regards to their thoughts and their behaviors and then what happens is they decide how to best approach or how to cope with the
1:27.6	situations that might otherwise be trying or challenging in their lives. A lot of people end up in bad
1:35.0	bad dilemmas because they don't know how to deal with those emotions.
1:42.7	So being emotionally mature can help you reach successful solutions
1:47.1	to your problems as well as keep problems
1:49.6	from overwhelming you.
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