Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another mornings with the Masters for we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. Good morning. Indeed, we're

picking up with day four of our cultivating emotional maturity devotional in the Bible

app. There's link to that in the description if you guys want to fall along with us and

the scriptures all up in this one. So Tori, you're just going to take it from here. Yes,

y'all, let's do it. The devotional says in Matthew 7, 18, we read that a good tree cannot bear

bad fruit and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down

and thrown into the fire. By changing the inner attitudes of your mind, your outer behavior shifts

and you become able to maintain relationships far more effectively. Imagine yourself as a tree.

All that is above ground level reflects your outward behavior, what is seen by others and by yourself.

The roots of the tree are your inner beliefs, judgments, and vows said to you or that you have

said over yourself that activate your triggers and affect your behavior. Inner beliefs often flow

from childhood rules like there's no such thing as can't. Speak only when spoken to.

But to change your negative behavior, you must understand what lies at the root, then cut it off

and replace that thing with a positive behavior so that positive fruit can flourish.

So shift failure is not an option to failure is a chance to learn and grow. Our deeply rooted vows

are like a defense mechanism. We employ this as a response to negative words, experiences,

or situations to protect ourselves from being hurt. They go something like, I'll never.

Such judgments are critical and condemning and reflect a refusal or an inability to forgive or

to trust no one. So have a go at drawing your own tree of behaviors, identifying your inner beliefs,

your deeply rooted vows and judgments that feed into your behavior.

Pray into this and ask God what He wants to highlight so that you can be brought into greater

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