Masking Conflict

What Is Masking?

The term “masking” refers to the propensity people feel to hide their emotions or personality traits in specific situations. In many cases, it is a set of learned behaviors. If you have experienced rejection or bullying at a young age, you will modify the way you express yourself for an extended period afterward, potentially through the rest of your life.

Masking, changes how you express yourself, by altering your communication patterns and who you are! You might change your body language, tone of voice, or facial expressions around specific people or in certain situations.

When you mask conflict in relationships—you become incongruous —not harmonious, incompatible, not conforming, disagreeable! If a child is controlled, engulfed, or dismissed in their family environment, they may develop conflict-avoidant and secretive behaviors and thoughts to maintain a sense of safety and security.

Masking Conflict” is not the same as Making Peace!

In order to “make peace” in any situation, you stop trivial fighting, disagreeing and being obtuse, and start living and working happily together! You allow the Lord in, and to be Lord over it! You can’t just stomp your feet and say “I said what I said,” and then “hope” the Lord works it out! He is Lord, having the power, authority, and influence over it. He is not a casual friend, another one of your cronies, who is willing to give you dishonest help, nor is He willing to receive from you— “your” truth, your disillusions and your false perceptions!

A person of influence, is a likable person, who you enjoy and want to spend time with, to receive their wisdom and pearls of life! On the other hand, a casual friend, is a person that you can do without, and probably do not really want in your life!

If you do not invite Christ into your “everyday mundane life-tasks and responsibilities,” that are routine, ordinary, and repetitive, you would have put Him on the sideline as your “crony” or casual friend” and not your LORD!

If you have a “person of influence” that God has placed in your life, you must respect them; go to them with questions and assistance, and honor their input, so that things will not go left in your life! Remember that they are not one of your “peers”—nor someone on your level!

When you see Jesus as your LORD—you will seek His values, His way of doing things and His input. When you only see Him as your buddy, you will only talk to Him about what you need, how you feel, and what you want Him to do in your life!

Friendship with God is a privilege

If you do not follow His commandments, His wisdom and counsel, His way of doing things—then you are not His follower!

YOU MUST “FOLLOW” Him! He’s not your “homie!” You cannot skip over following Him, and then get to be His preferred, covenant ambassador!—(nor can you be that to any person of influence in your life)

Your assignment to a significant, person of influence, whom God has place in your life, does not give you the right to disrespect or treat them as a casual “peer or companion!”

When I grew up…I wish I would have fixed my mouth to tell my mom, to “chill” and attempted to treat her as one of my peers!” She would correct me, one way or another! The reason being that she would not allow her children to treat her casually as one of our peers and think we were not going to follow her “authority! Our being too casual with her, would have made it very difficult for us to respect her authority! We got checked by everybody—parents, grandparents, aunties, mentors and anybody else in authority— and we submitted to it! We didn’t want to, but we already knew that there would be dire circumstances, if we chose not to! It is the same with those who are naming the name of Christ!

If you can’t handle, connect, communicate appropriately, or value the authority of a person of influence, that God has place in your life—then you certainly won’t respect the relationship with Jesus Christ, and you will miss out on the entire relationship. So no sense in crying after you have “lost” them!

People of influence are placed in your life to walk you into wholeness because they are fill with His love, (agape’), His power (the Word), and full of His glory! (anointing) You need to honor and submit to that! I believe the Creator of the entire universe knows who He has truly chosen, and what He is doing! He knows those who are His…why don’t you? It’s all there, in the wisdom of the scriptures as to be on point about everything and everybody!

Just acknowledge that when it comes to God, some things, just won’t make sense, (mental), and at times it seems to you as if things just doesn’t add up! Sometimes it just won’t, but we can have hope in the fact that God knows what’s best, and that He is still good! The enemy’s end game is to get you to question God and to derail you! So do not focus on what you see or feel in the situation, or you will miss your door to reward by being distracted by the outward activity! To be carnally-minded is death; to be spiritually-minded is life and peace! You choose!

Human formulas do not create divine outcomes!

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