How to Respond NOT React When Toxic People Push Your Buttons

In this episode, we'll talk about how to respond and not react when toxic people push your buttons.

 Toxic people can really push your buttons whether they're twisting scripture for their benefit, playing the victim to make you look bad, or gaslighting every negative emotion that you experience.  Trying to be in relationship with the seemingly double sent individuals requires an extra dose of grace, but what do you do when that doesn't even seem to be enough? 

So what are you do when your pressure cooker blows and you explode in anger and frustration? Rightfully so, but it leaves you looking like the bad guy. Look, I get it, I wish I could say that I have never been triggered by self-centered entitled egotistical people, but that would be a lie. The truth is they have gotten the better of me on more occasions than I care. 

Count the one day during my devotional time. I came across Proverbs 14:29 and it changed my life. Here's what it reads. “Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.”

In other words, those who react are fools. What a blow here, I am looking at these arrogant, self-righteous, manipulative people that they are what I was just as bad as I was responding as a fool, not as a child of God. My friend, it snapped me right into place faster than a toddler with a Lego set. And from that day forward, I was determined to learn how to respond in a healthy and Godly manner that exposed their foolishness, but kept my integrity. And that's what I'd like to share with you today. 

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