These Stages Will Help You Change Emotionally Unhealthy Patterns

In this highlight from the podcast, Dr. Cloud answers the question of how we get started changing emotionally unhealthy patterns. Changing a pattern is not the same as fixing a problem. Patterns recur, whereas problems are incidental. The first step to breaking an unhealthy pattern is recognizing and owning the need to change it. Following that, we need to become comfortable with it taking some time. Unhealthy patterns are not changed overnight. Healing takes time, and growth takes time. Which leads to the main step: How are you going to spend your time, and how do you stay on track?

[Amy.]

I listen to this video about every other month to encourage me. Thank you!

[Mushroom-]

" i NEED Is THE MOST POWERFUL PHRASE " . 🤔 YES!! 😼👏👏👏👏

[brightpage]

Love the “didn’t screw up as much as I used to” song.

That alone is temptation enough. That idea to screw up less instead of more snowballing screwups.

[Mushroom-]

true!!, when the mistake is done over, over & over again is CALLED a PATTERN " . YES!, 😮😮👏👏👏🤔
Amen!!

[nildameers]

Dr. Cloud! You rock! Thank you for what you do! Blessings!

[eleanorjordan]

Love you, Dr.Cloud…you’re awesome! Thank you for changing your major!😂

[fgbowen]

5:19 - Doctor! - All-of-that was just SO perfect - LOVED all those words - !!! Lol. ( :

[margieburgess]

I have listened to this video multiple times, so rich and full of great teaching, thank you Dr Cloud that I need

[girlygirlwoman]

Please help me understand.
I thought when Jesus"healed" someone in the Bible it was instant.
Who did He heal through a "process"? Scripture reference please.

[Bestwaylearn]

Open question parents/ relatives who fake cry to mock a whining toddler. What are your thoughts?

[jesusisking]

On the other side of our last breath is excruciating punishment or eternal joy. If you have not repented and Jesus has not transformed you, you might be in big trouble.There are some essential commands Jesus said. One was REPENT and believe the gospel. The next, the first verse below shows where someone asked Jesus about who is getting saved and Jesus said there is a narrow gate you MUST enter MANY will try and they will not be able. The seriousness and the cruciality of that statement is unmeasurable. Considering the stark differences these few phrases will have in someone's eternal destiny.This is Christ's measure of who has come to him and anyone who falls short of this will be cast out forever. In the fire that is unquenchable. Truly Horrifying. Jesus trains his servants in the great fire of affliction, giving them a glimmer of hell so they can warn others. Someone said in psalms IT IS good that I was afflicted that is how I learned your statues. And Jesus said faint not at my tribulations for you, which are for your glory.  This is showing where a believer gets a taste of tribulations. And we know in the end will be the GREAT TRIBULATION WHERE God comes and renders judgement. Some things that keep us from God can be a love for money, self will, self pride, and not forsaking our own desires. Jesus wants all of us in exchange for eternal life. He says you were bought with a price. He's saying i purchased you, I redeemed you but I have some very high expectations of you. Which are to pray continuously, to continue reading the bible, to give a tenth of all you have to the church, to visit the widow and the fatherless in their affliction, to  help those in need, to pray for the lost, and to go make disciples out of every nation. Spreading the word of God is not just for a preacher it is a job for all believers. We have to let people know what is at stake, we must fully inform ppl about what the bible says in hope of snatching them out of the clutches of Satan on the path to hell, totally blinded by the world. Serious self examination is necessary because the stakes are high. There is so much evidence in the bible of salvation and if you have none of it You are likely in big trouble and need to immediately throw yourself on the mercy of God and repent for sins and turn to Jesus in hopes that he will spare your soul from the lake of fire. The bible says if our gospel is hid, it is hid from those who are perishing, the God of this world (satan) has blinded their eyes so they cant see and cannot hear). PERISHING in contrast Jesus said he who believes in me WIll never die. Remember God knows whats in the heart if it is a life saving faith. Or do you have  a kind of faith where none of this is really relevant, merely a waste of time. Jesus really asks for very little in light of eternal bliss, a Kingdom that will never end. With perfect justice and peace. Even in our life today though we have to give us things his way is better. He is the way the truth and the life and as the bible says broad is the way that leads to destruction. But that Narrow gate Jesus mentions leads to life. Jesus said if you seek me you will find me if you seek me with all your heart. Romans 10:9 if you can confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus  and believe in your that God has raised him from the dead you shall be saved. It is with the mouth one confesses and with the heart one believes unto salvation. Whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.25When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.27But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all  workers of iniquity.28There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you  thrust out.

12 13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

[lubamason]

I really like you Dr only I wish you didn’t say Oh, crap! Sounds so bad. Sorry. I just had to say this.