How to Keep Your Emotions in Check
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Deborah Pegues offers the tools you need to keep those emotions in check so that your relationships can remain healthy. From keeping God in the mix to managing your schedule and stress level to dealing with demanding people, you’ll learn how to keep your emotions in check and abide in God’s peace.
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| 0:00.0 | In those early years, when I came to know the Lord, he and his family were so |
| 0:07.3 | against it that they actually advised him to divorce me. |
| 0:12.5 | Joyce spent many lonely years trying to trust God and love her husband well. |
| 0:17.2 | Thankfully, she found the support and encouragement she needed. |
| 0:21.0 | I think that God just really used to focus on the family and your guys' ministry to |
| 0:26.0 | grow me and prepare me and guide my heart to live out in front of my husband what it means to follow Christ. |
| 0:35.8 | In the best news of all is that Joyce Husband also became a follower of Jesus. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Jim Daley. When we work together, we can strengthen more marriages like Joyce and give |
| 0:46.2 | families hope. Please call 800 the letter A in the word family or donate at focusonthefamily.com |
| 0:53.0 | slash hope and your gift will be doubled. |
| 1:00.3 | What do I mean by cast down an imagination? Don't tolerate thoughts that take you down that path. |
| 1:05.4 | That path of superiority, that path of condemning other people. Don't allow yourself to think like |
| 1:10.6 | that. You can halt the thought. That's Deborah Paget and she's here today talking about how to be |
| 1:16.2 | more conscious of your self-centered thoughts and emotions. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller |
| 1:21.4 | and your host is FocusonthefamilyPresident and author Jim Daley. John, it is so easy to let |
| 1:26.9 | emotions get the best of us. I don't know why you can be a Christian for 20, 30 years and really |
| 1:33.8 | never get on top of that emotional equation. Think for a minute, for example, we encounter a situation |
| 1:40.8 | with a coworker that riles us up or we see a friend post picture from a beautiful resort in |
| 1:47.5 | envy creeps in or we lose our cool with our kids or maybe our spouse and you're sitting there |
| 1:54.1 | beating yourself up going, I should know better. I shouldn't take the bait. Here at Focusonthefamily, |
| 1:59.7 | we want to provide those tools for you. One way to think of focus is just a giant treasure |
| 2:05.4 | chest of resources for just about anything you're going to encounter in your family situation. |
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