Silent Frustrations Part 2 | Q+A with Herbert and Tiffany Cooper

3 Steps To Overcoming Silent Frustrations 1. Get emotionally healthy Matthew 7:3–5 “And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own? 4 How can you think of saying to your friend, ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye. (NLT) 1. The Blindness log removed James 1:19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, (NIV) 2. The Emotional unhealth log removed 1. Trust issues from my dysfunctional upbringing Emotionally unhealthy people deny the impact the past is having on their present 2. Rejection and abandonment issues from my childhood Psalm 34:18 If your heart is broken, you’ll find God right there; if you’re kicked in the gut, he’ll help you catch your breath. (Message)   3. The Pride log removed Proverbs 16:18 First pride, then the crash— the bigger the ego, the harder the fall. (Message) Psalm 34:14 Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. 1. Remove The Victim Mentality Log 2. Remove The Shame Log 3. Remove The Living in Isolation Log.   2.  Attack the Issue and not each other.  3. Keep Jesus at the center When Jesus is at the center: We continually change and grow because we’re on the potter’s wheel We follow God’s word instead of our flesh or secular advice 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. We humble ourselves before our spouse 1. Don’t use God to run from God 2. We have to live to out serve each other instead of out selfish each other. Philippians 2:4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. (NLT) 3. We Forgive, forgive, forgive. Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. (NIV)