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RRRA Lesson 5 - Relationship Bondage

Perversion of truth is manipulation. Selfishness perverts relationships by establishing demands, usurping your authority, and taking control over another's life. This is a relational captivity plot with a goal of total bondage. You will be dominated until you have no identity. This lesson takes us through 2 Corinthians and Galatians and gives us instructions from the apostle Paul on how to handle those who want you zealous for them and not for God. Paul just wishes that these people (perverters of truth) would just cut themselves off. 

RRRA Lesson 4 - Co-Dependency

Healthy relationships require emotional fitness. When I have broken down pillars in my life, I choose broken people. I may develop a rescuer mentality. I may attract insecure attachments or develop other types of problematic attachments. This lesson will include a codependency evaluation. Then we will establish personal boundaries with clear directions for how we allow people to treat us. Next, we will explore sick syndrome questionnaire where we look at ourselves and evaluate our part of the problem. We will introduce limerence which is a receptive romantic thought of another through fantasy thinking. This false thinking pattern will set us up for destructive insecure relationship. 

RRRA Lesson 3 - Relationship Addiction

If I am not content alone, I will never be content with another person. Relationship Addictions are toxic patterns that must be unlearned. This lesson will explore trauma bonding, loving bombing, pseudo-loyalty, and enmeshment. Disentangling from a toxic relationship will be messy and may take an act of congress. Your superpower will be placing firm boundaries and standing your ground. Self-evaluation tools will include a relationship addiction evaluation, stuck evaluation, and how to escape the relationship addiction cycle. We will also look at terms like euphoric recall and romanticizing the past that keeps us returning with false hopes. Another exercise will be to make a trouble list of toxic behaviors and setting a level from 1-10 on the confusion in the relationship. 

RRRA 2 Toxic Relationships

People in toxic relationships give power away to gain power and control over another. When we do this, we lose our own identity. Toxic relationships are built on power and control: emotional dominance, obsessing, isolating and controlling, threatening and manipulating, blaming & denying, and even physical dominance. 

RRRA 1 Healthy Relationships

Healthy relationships are intentional. It is when I need nothing from a relationship to identify and fulfill me that I can let go of trying to fix another person. This lesson describes a healthy relationship: accountability, open communication, respect of boundaries, respect for other's time and individuality, trust and support, shared power, individual responsibility and seeking to correct yourself and confronting and working through issues. 

Assurance Of Salvation

Freedom to be a doer of the Word and not just a hearer is a progressive journey to subdue the flesh until we receive grace. Now, sin shall not have dominion over you because we are not under the law but under grace. Romans 6:14 Get a vision for your infinite worth. Know your value in the father’s eyes. Let him restore, redeem, comfort, heal and make you whole again. Let the father assure you of your salvation in him.

Conquering Our Sin Nature

There is a war for our soul. It is a daily process to continually align our thinking with God’s Word. If I am speaking the Word over my life and the promises of God to myself, it is a powerful force to tear down strongholds. Anything drawing me away from Christ and keeping me distracted and needs to be met in battle. The wrestling match is within me. I must intentionally reflect on my motives and behaviors and search out areas of my weakness to submit them to God to be redeemed. 

Law of the Spirit of Life

It's an easier journey when our faith comes alive, and the Spirit of the living God lives and breathes in us. This happens as we release the things in our lives that hinder us as our sacrifice for the day. Then we renew our minds by rehearsing the promises of God to ourselves and aligning our thinking with life and truth. If we walk in the Law of Spirit and Life, we will overcome the Law of Sin and Death which keeps us oppressed. Every moment of everyday we can be rewarded with internal peace and a feeling of great safety. This is the Spirit filled life. 

Secret Work of the Flesh

Fellowship with God was a daily and precious blessing in the garden. After the fall of man, there came a deep-seated aversion for God evidenced by Adam and Eve fleeing and hiding from his presence. This is characteristic of the unregenerate flesh and is a hidden defect. We must be willing to surrender our desires and take up our cross and follow the Lord, Jesus. If any man come after me, he must deny himself (flesh), and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever will save his life, will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me, will find it. Matthew 16:24-25

Training the Next Generation Lessons 7 through 14

Training the Next Generation is powerful. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 I find that I am still a child and need reminded and often re-trained by the Word of God. These mini-devotions are for the whole family. They are good conversation starters. The Sweetness of the Tongue. Love is Patient and Love is Kind. Love is... Love is Never... Complaining and Arguing. Happy Heart. Emotions are Blind Guides. Where are you Attached? Do My Emotions Rule? Rules on Comparison. Enjoy my friends!