One of the most difficult things to do when you’re feeling threatened and stressed out is to learn how to slow down and listen for the Spirit’s guidance.

The enemy thrives off of anxiety that expresses itself in knee-jerk decisions that may provide immediate relief but then trigger a chain reaction of consequences that are beyond what we anticipated.

Sure, there is a time and place for quick and decisive action, but sometimes the best thing we can do is to slow down, to think, to pray, and to listen for the voice of the Spirit.

Learn to pause before speaking and acting.  Learn to discern God’s will in a way that allows for appropriate response and not rash reaction.   Sometimes all it takes is a moment.

I can bet all of us have moments we wish we could have back – words we wish we hadn’t said, and things we wish we could do over…

Learn those lessons.  Slow down.  Glean wisdom from experience, and then do differently… 

¹⁹ Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; ²⁰ for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 

James 1:19-20

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