Rock of Recovery

Patience

Patience makes others feel loved. Patience is bearing pain or trials calmly and without complaint; manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain; not hasty or impetuous; steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or adversity. A patient person is slow to anger, long-suffering, persevering, waiting, cheerful, and hopeful. Patience does not develop on its own; it is an intentional practice. We must intentionally put-on patience and take off impatience. 

Peace

Walking in peace is my responsibility. The problem with maintaining peace is that we shift our focus onto people, possessions, or positions to do for us what only God can do. If we expect someone or something else to meet our inner needs this will leave us empty and anxious. Unity and a strong community results in peace. We will discuss six obstacles to finding peace and how to respond in difficult circumstances so you can maintain your peace. 

.Joy.

Joy gives strength, health and happiness. We can be joyful and sorrowful at the same time. Joy is a condition of the Spirit and sorrow is a condition of the soul. In this lesson, we will discuss how to increase joy, things that diminish joy, tests that produce joy, reasons to rejoice and what are the steps to rejoicing in Psalm 105. Then, we can practice the development of mature thinking skills in times of trouble. Joy is not a suggestion. It is a command! We are to have joy in trials, tribulation, persecution, afflictions and distresses.

Love ＜3

There is a time to love and a time to hate. We will learn 37 expressions of love and 37 expressions of what love is never. There are 4 lower levels of love and 6 levels of higher, mature love. 

Lower levels: Self-love, false-love, enabling love, best effort love.

Higher levels: True love, tough love, perfect love, loving your higher power and your neighbor as yourself, love with great peace and everlasting love. An everlasting love never dies and transcends time, space and all eternity and is the definition of being a "beloved".

Heart Of Christ

A happy heart is my responsibility to cultivate. A trained heart is a wise heart. This lesson will teach us to evaluate our heart condition. Do we have a tender heart or a heart of stone? I have hidden your Word in my heart that I might not sin against you.Psalm 119:11

Mind Of Christ

A mature mind is quiet and peaceful. It takes maturity to develop right thinking. My mind will heal when I regulate my thoughts to come in line with true, honest, just, pure, lovely, thoughts of good report, virtuous, and praiseworthy.This lesson will teach us to develop the mind of Christ. 

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Learn to cry out for deliverance from fear with your whole heart. Pray the deliverance Scriptures in Psalms. Learn all the crying out verses and let the Lord still the storms of suffering fear. God can deliver from all oppressive attitudes. Do not be afraid of men. Develop a trust muscle. Suffering can be for 3 reasons: 1) Chastening to bring you back on the path. 2) Build character to become stronger. 3) To bring God glory. 

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Grieve the loss. Enough is enough. Now move forward. Leave those that are rebellious and stubborn, go and nurture the innocent and precious ones in your life. Work on your character: humble, gentle and peaceful. Learn to protect your heart and fight psychological warfare with prayer. Find Courage and learn how to let God fight your battles. 

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Choose not to serve fear! Learn to consider the birds and the flowers and not worry about things. Release your problems to the Lord, trust God and choose faith. 

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Exploring courage is empowering. Today, we will learn how not to be afraid of others and to be unmoveable and unshakeable. We will discuss the courage of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, Joshua and Nehemiah.