Visions of Peace--Week 4-Day 6

Get Personal--

Journaling is a powerful tool when trying to gain control over emotions. Psalms is basically David’s journal.  How blessed are we to have his example of praise and prayer.  Try some journaling this week. Buy a notebook of some kind and write a simple entry each day.

Day 3—How are you feeling? ____________________ Why?

Visions of Peace--Week 4-Day 5

Get Personal--

Journaling is a powerful tool when trying to gain control over emotions. Psalms is basically David’s journal.  How blessed are we to have his example of praise and prayer.  Try some journaling this week. Buy a notebook of some kind and write a simple entry each day.

Day 2—How are you feeling? ____________________ Why?

Visions of Peace--Week 4-Day 4

Get Personal--

Journaling is a powerful tool when trying to gain control over emotions. Psalms is basically David’s journal.  How blessed are we to have his example of praise and prayer.  Try some journaling this week. Buy a notebook of some kind and write a simple entry each day.

Day 1—How are you feeling? ____________________ Why?

Visions of Peace--Week 4-Day 3

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Read Psalm 139. 

Which emotions you think David was having as he wrote each set of verses? 

Visions of Peace--Week 4-Day 2

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Read Ephesians 6:10-20.

List the parts of the armor of God.

According to Ephesians 6, what might we be battling when our emotions are out-of-control?

What is our greatest weapon against this lack of control?

Do you have verses you turn to in times of trouble that we have not mentioned? Attach them as a comment and we can all grow our arsenal of verses. 

Visions of Peace--Week 4-Day 1

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Memory Verses

Psalm 139

23Search me, O God, and know my heart;
  Try me and know my anxious thoughts;

24And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
  And lead me in the everlasting way.

For I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.  Philippians 4:13

Visions of Peace in Anger--Session 4

"My recipe for dealing with  anger and frustration:  set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and  rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about  business as usual." 

Phyllis   Diller

Do you ever get angry….

Visions of Peace-Week 3-Day 6

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Practice your memory verses for this week and previous sessions.
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Visions of Peace-Week 3-Day 5

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Do you think the man was angry when he sliced off the soldier’s ear during Jesus’ arrest?  Read Luke 22.

What was the man feeling?

What does anger often lead to? 

Visions of Peace-Week 3-Day 4

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Nebuchadnezzar seemed like an angry person much of the time.  Read Daniel 2 and 3 or read these verses for a reminder of his story.

Visions of Peace-Week 3-Day 3

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Moses had fits of anger. 

Read Leviticus 10: 12-20.

What was Moses really angry about? 

Consider verse 20. “And after hearing this, Moses was no longer ANGRY.”

How do we get rid of anger? 

Visions of Peace-Week 3-Day 2

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We’ve discussed sadness. 

Now let’s take a look at anger.  

Read the following verses that talk about both these emotions.

·      Genesis 4:5 But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad. 

Visions of Peace--Week 3--Day 1

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Homework Week 3

Anger

Memory Verses

 
He that is slow to angry is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city. Proverbs 16:32

Visions of Peace in Sadness--Session 3

…Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning. Psalm 30:5

Why do women love sad movies?  It’s not a good chick flick unless it’s got a good sad scene in it.

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Visions of Peace--Week 2-Day 6

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Think further--

Revelation 18:19 And they put dust on their heads, and were sad, weeping and crying, and saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town…..

How did people of Bible times express sadness?

How do we express it today? 

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Visions of Peace--Week 2-Day 5

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Read Revelation 5 (The Scroll)

1.     Why was John sad?

2.    When have you felt hopeless?
3.  What changed that feeling?

Read Judges 11 (Japheth)

1.     List the reasons Japheth had to be sad.

2.    How did he respond to his sadness?

     3.  How did his actions affect others?

Visions of Peace--Week 2-Day 4

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Read 1 Samuel 16 (Samuel, Saul, and David)

1.     Why was Samuel mourning at the beginning of the story?

2.    Who was the next character to feel sadness? Why?

3.    What feeling accompanied the sadness?

4.    What seemed to help the sadness?

5.    Does that ever help you when you are sad? What else helps?

Visions of Peace--Week 2-Day 3

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Read Luke 18: 18-25 (Jesus and the rich man)

1.     What made the man sad?

2.    Can you relate?

Visions of Peace--Week 2-Day 2

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However, as it is written: "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived" -- the things God has prepared for those who love him—1 Corinthians 2:9

For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning. Psalm 30:5

Visions of Peace-Week 2-Day 1

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Memory Verses for Week 2

Practice the verses found below each day this week.  These will become part of your "arsonal"!

Activity 1-Write as many words as you can think of that mean sad in order from least sad to most sad.   Use your bubble map from Session 1 to help you. 

Visions of Peace in Fear-Session 2

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Do you remember the first time you felt fear?  Check out this baby who is afraid?

Remember the first time fear was mentioned in the Bible? Genesis 3:10 The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."

Visions of Peace--Week 1-Day 6

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Think further--What other bible characters had reason to fear?

Character	Fear

Visions of Peace--Week 1-Day 5

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Read 1 Samuel 17 (David and Goliath)

1.     Who in this story is unafraid?

2.    What is different between this character and Pharoah?

3.    What is different between this character and the Israelites with Moses?

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