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DEAL WITH IT Finding Peace of Mind Workbook

materials compiled and authored by

Chrystal Hansen © 2004 revision 2014

www.emerginglife.us

www.ChrystalHansen.com

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Contents:

ELM Vision and Mission 7

Expectations 8

Introduction: 9

1. Your Response - Ability 11

2. Brain Chatter 25

3. Fit to be Tied 37

4. Shall We Dance 53

5. Hand-Me-Down Genes 67

6. Finding Peace of Mind 97

7. Prayers for Peace 117

8. Appendix 131

Unless noted otherwise, scripture references in this notebook are from the New Living Translation.


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Mission

Leading people in finding peace, life and purpose in Christ.

Vision

Seeing life emerge in its fullness.

Scripture John 10:10

“I have come that they might have life,

and have it more abundantly.” (KJV)


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Expectations:

We create an environment of confidentiality.

By allowing all who attend the space and freedom to share. We will not tell another’s story, nor

discuss another’s story outside this class.

We create an environment of integrity and honesty.

The Emerging Life team commits to dealing with all in an open and honest fashion. We will treat

all with the utmost respect as each shares their heart and experiences throughout our time

together.

We create an environment for all to own their healing journey.

While we the ELM team is here to walk alongside of you for this season, this journey into peace

and freedom is yours. You will get out of this workshop what you put in and what you desire.

We will be your biggest cheerleaders along the way!!!


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Introduction:

1. What do you hope to take away from this retreat workshop?

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2. Connect the dots with 4 straight lines without picking up your pencil or retracing a line.


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3. Consider what each word represents to you in your life. Discuss and list characteristics and

descriptive phrases for each of the following:

CHANGE TRANSITION TRANSFORMATION

NOTES:


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Session One


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YOUR RESPONSE – ABILITY

Session One: Overview

The greatest battles have not been fought around the world but

in the human mind. In the domain of the will, the battle is

waged. Jesus made it clear that the center of man’s relationship

with God is in the inner self (heart, soul and mind) and neither

in devotional acts nor ministry service.

Mark 12:30-31, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart,

all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength…and love

your neighbor as yourself.”

Your mind is not only the greatest battlefield of your life but

also one of the greatest, most powerful weapons you hold in

finding peace of mind. We begin this workshop by laying a

foundation of three principles. These principles will be

expanded and built upon throughout the entire workshop. It is

crucial that these become second nature as we walk in God’s

provision of healing, life, peace and hope.

1. The Journey Principle: Choose-IT:

Choose to be present, authentic with a community of

believers, pursuing truth and persevering till the end.

2. The Onion Principle: Accept-IT:

Accept His ways that involve process, stages and

time.

3. The Tree Principle: Own – IT:

Own all the fruit that flows from your life.

Let’s begin by defining the concept of responsibility in a new

way.

Defining Response – Ability: as the ability to choose how to

respond to stimulation and circumstances coming at any

moment in time. No one has the power to make you feel

anything except for you. Nothing external has the power to take

away your peace, joy or sense of belonging. That is completely

in your power to surrender. You may not be in total control of

what happens to you in life, but you are certainly in total control

of how you choose to respond to your experiences. This puts

the power, the choice, the responsibility of actions taken and

responses given squarely upon ones’ self.

I. The Journey Principle

Matthew 4:19, “Jesus called out to them, come follow me…”

Notes

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Luke 14:27, “Whoever does not bear his cross and come after

me cannot be my disciple…” (NKJ)

I want you to notice two callings with different commitment

levels. The first call is to gather willing followers. The second

call is to bring followers into discipleship with Christ. To

journey in greater depths of discipleship and fellowship, which

leads to peace of mind, we must make a few foundational

choices on this journey. Let’s take a look at the New Testament

believers’ choices.

Acts 2:42 & 44, “…the believers devoted themselves to the

apostle’s teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals

(including the Lord’s Supper) and to prayer. And all believers

met together…and shared everything they had.”

Acts 4:29, 31 & 32, “O, Lord, hear their threats, and give us,

your servants, great boldness in preaching your word. After the

prayer, the meeting place shook, and they were all filled with the

Holy Spirit…with boldness...all the believers were united in

heart and mind…”

A. You must choose to be present in the midst of a

community of believers and journey together.

o Notice the description of believers: devotion,

sharing and together.

o We must be connected to believers to journey

effectively.

B. You must choose to be authentic in the midst of

relationships of journeying with believers.

o To be authentic is to be willing to

acknowledge how things really are.

o The fruit of authenticity has the capacity to

produce unity and oneness.

C. You must choose to pursue truth on this journey.

o Pursuing truth takes God’s intervention.

o You can have as much of God as you desire,

you set the gauge.

D. You must choose to persevere on the journey

regardless of what confronts you.

o It takes determination to allow trials and

situations to produce good.

o When you persevere through – God brings

break through (James 1:2-4).

ACTION STEP: So in order to Deal With-IT, you must use

your response – ability to choose to be present, authentic,

pursue truth and persevere on this journey.

Notes

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II. The Onion Principle

Psalm 103:7, “He revealed His ways to Moses and His acts to

Israel.” (RSV)

God will reveal Himself to you both in acts and ways. The key

is, what do you seek and expect? His acts or His ways? We

easily accept His acts, but how readily do we accept His way?

Ephesians 4:13, “until we become mature, attaining the whole

measure of fullness in Christ.” (NIV)

A. We must accept that His ways of maturing us

involves process.

o There are no quick fixes or shortcuts to God’s

ways.

B. We must accept that His ways of maturing us

involves layers and stages of growth.

o We all grow in stages and learn in stages.

C. Within each layer of the onion of my life, familiar

themes will emerge.

o These themes are the ungodly beliefs we have

embraced based upon our experiences.

o They begin very young in our lives.

o Familiar themes will be seen in different

layers again and again.

D. We must accept that His ways of maturing us

involves time, actually a lifetime.

o Time is needed to understand His ways and

what He is doing in us.


your response – ability to accept His ways that involve

process, layers, stages, themes and a lifetime. The onion

principle sets the precedent that enables us to keep walking

the journey with God, one layer at a time.

III. The Tree Principle

Genesis 3:7-9, “Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and

they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together

and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife

heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the

garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God

Notes

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among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the

man, “Where are you?” (NIV)

There is a pattern in these verses that we can follow in our own

lives. We fall into temptation and attempt our cover-ups with

God, others and ourselves. However, the love of our Lord and

Savior is never silent and He calls to us where we are. We are

then given an opportunity through grace to use our Response –

Ability to be known and stand up in our place of shame and sin.

This is where the Lord deals with us through kindness and love.

Our cover-up attempts

The Lord’s call to us where we are

Our opportunity to Own-IT

The Lord’s dealings of grace with us

Matthew 7:16, “By their fruit you will recognize them. Do

people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?”

(NIV)

Matthew 12:34b-35, “For the mouth speaks what the heart is

full of. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up

in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored

up in him.” (NIV)

A. We must own what flows from our behaviors, thoughts

and words.

o Fruit can be described as the product of a seed,

hidden deep beneath the surface.

o How honest am I willing to be with myself?

B. We must own what kind of fruit is born in our life.

o The outward fruit of my life is related to the

health of my inner life.

o I can’t pray for crop failure and keep on doing

wrong.

C. We must recognize the need for both the community of

believers and God to assist in identifying and owning

the fruit that one can’t see.

o I need others and God to see myself.

o I must develop intimacy (in-to-me-see) with God

and others.


your response – ability to own all the fruit that flows from

your life.

Notes

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Review of Session One Response – Ability: the ability to choose how to respond to stimulation

and circumstances coming at any moment in time.

To Deal With-IT you must use your response – ability to

… step into the journey, peel back the layers and inspect the fruit!

1. The Journey Principle: Choose-IT: Choose to be present, authentic with a community of

believers, pursuing truth and persevering till the end.

2. The Onion Principle: Accept-IT: Accept His ways that involve process, stages and time.

3. The Tree Principle: Own – IT: Own all the fruit that flows from your life.

ACTION STEP: So in order to Deal With-IT, you must use your response – ability to choose

to be present, authentic, pursue truth and persevere on this journey.

ACTION STEP: So in order to Deal With-IT, you must use your response – ability to accept

His ways that involve process, layers, stages, themes and a lifetime. The onion principle sets the

precedent that enables us to keep walking the journey with God, one layer at a time.

ACTION STEP: So in order to Deal With-IT, you must use your response – ability to own all

the fruit that flows from your life.

GOING DEEPER

Going Deeper is the place to evaluate each session, record new revelations and insights and to plan

what takeaways you want to incorporate into your walk with God. Take your time and prayerfully

consider the following, asking the Father to reveal to you what He desires to heal and restore in your

heart and life.

Everyone processes information differently and learns differently. The questions and evaluations are

to assist you in discovering what God is bringing to your attention in this workshop. How you track

this is your choice. Some prefer to journal, others prefer to make lists and still others choose to

make mental notes as they listen. You are free to assimilate this information in the way that best

serves you and gives you the space to walk out the Holy Spirit’s leading in your life.

A clear and concise path will be navigated to direct you toward what will be covered in the final

prayer session. What you bring to that session is between you and God.

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