“So
how do you deal with negative people who suck the life out of you?”
I was asked this question recently.
We
choose to see them through the lens of who God created them to be,
not through the lens of what they do. Then, in our eyes, they are not
a negative person, because that's who God created them to be. They
act that way because of the pain and deception in their own lives,
either from their own sin or the sin against them, or both.
We
ask the Holy Spirit, “HS, who have you created them to be? As your
ambassador, what words of life and encouragement can you give me to
speak your love to them?”
Then,
after we have a positive relationship with them, at l;east as much as
it depends on us, because we've told them positive things from God
about themselves that no one else will, we can address their
negativity as the Holy Spirit leads, next time it comes up.
It's
an honor to be used by God to touch someone's life.
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