Vibe Check: Dealing with Difficult People - Healthy Boundaries
Vibe Check: Dealing with Difficult People
Healthy Boundaries
Pastor Rick Hancock – May 8, 2022

The chosen set of behaviors that I will and will not accept from others.
• Too weak –

• Too rigid –

Reveal Answer

They load you with impossible demands that they themselves don’t even try to keep.
Matthew 23:4 TLB

Signs of Boundary Intruders:
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Establishing Healthy Boundaries
1. Believe that I

them

Christ has set us free! This means we are really free. Now hold on to your freedom and don’t ever become slaves… Galatians 5:1 CEV

Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong. And do everything with love.
1 Corinthians 16:13–14 NLT

1. Learn to love without
   Reveal Answer

Hot-tempered people must pay the penalty. If you rescue them once, you will have to do it again. Proverbs 19:19 NLT

For we are each responsible for our own conduct. Galatians 6:5 NLT

Discipline your children while there is hope. Otherwise, you will ruin their lives.
Proverbs 19:18 NLT

1. Care enough to
   Reveal Answer
   boundary invasions

Speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ… Ephesians 4:15 NLT

Stop lying to each other; tell the truth, for we are parts of each other and when we lie to each other we are hurting ourselves. Ephesians 4:25 TLB

1. Reveal Answer
   myself

Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. *
* Proverbs 4:23 NLT*

Be clearheaded. Keep alert. Your accuser, the devil, is on the prowl like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith. 1 Peter 5:8 CEB

• Emotions
• Ideas
• Physical
• Relational
• Time

Just say a simple, ‘Yes, I will,’ or ‘No, I won’t.’ Anything beyond this is from the evil one.
Matthew 5:37 NLT

1. Don’t
   Reveal Answer
   now

And let us not get tired of doing what is right, for after a while we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t get discouraged and give up. Galatians 6:9 TLB

My loved brothers and sisters, you must stand firm, unshakable, excelling in the work of the Lord as always because you know that your labor isn’t going to be for nothing in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:58 CEB

Resource: https://www.amazon.com/Boundaries-Updated-Expanded-When-Control/dp/154366109

Memory Verse

For we are each responsible for our own conduct. Galatians 6:5 NLT

Next Steps

I am requesting assistance from Hope4Healing Mental Health Team to discuss healthy boundaries.

I will attend Celebrate Recovery to strengthen healthy boundaries.

I will pray for wisdom as I establish healthy boundaries.

My Notes