Hopefully, you are now gaining a better understanding of how to use your emotions to identify your beliefs so that you can reject Satan’s lies and replace them with God’s truths.

All of us have developed patterns of responding based on our family backgrounds, our past experiences, and our personalities. These patterns can be very healthy and productive provided loving parents and a consistent life of honesty and courage are present. But the number of dysfunctional families is increasing, and the corresponding response

What recurring situation(s) trigger anxiety, anger, fear, sarcasm, withdrawal, or nagging for you? List some of those situations in the spaces below. How do you usually respond? Which false beliefs are at the root of this response?

Painful or distressing emotions, chiefly anger or fear, are often an indication that we are basing our self-worth on our performance or others’ opinions of us.

When we see another person (especially if this person has offended us in some way), we should think and, if possible, state verbally, “This person has great worth apart from his performance because Christ gave His life for him and therefore imparted great value to him.

1. To make the Truth Card, write out both the following truths and their corresponding verses from Scripture on the front of a three-by-five-inch index card: I am deeply loved by God (1 John 4:9–10). I am completely forgiven and am fully pleasing to God (Rom. 5:1). I am totally accepted by God (Col. 1:21–22). I am a new creation, complete in Christ (2

The truth that you are deeply loved, completely forgiven, fully pleasing, totally accepted, and a new creature in Christ will never work its way into your thoughts, emotions, and actions through a self-improvement program. Thank the Lord for your forgiveness in Christ and ask the Holy Spirit to empower you to experience this great truth. If you

D. L. Moody was an unknown cobbler when he heard someone say, “The world has yet to see what God can do through one man whose heart is completely His.” D. L. Moody responded, “Lord, I want to be that man!” Moody became one of the world’s leading evangelists because of his intense desire to honor Christ and to be used by Him.

PROMISES FROM GOD’S WORD Christ will never leave us (Matt. 28:20; Heb. 13:5). He will abundantly provide for our needs (Phil. 4:19). We will be in heaven with Him (John 14:1–3). We will reign with Him (2. Tim. 2:12). He will strengthen us (Isa. 40:29). He will give us His peace (John 14:27). He will accomplish His purposes (1 Thess. 5:24). He will