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Emotional Intelligence: What is It?

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Participants: John Bradshaw (Host), Neil Nedley

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00:36 JB: This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw,
00:39 thanks for joining me. When it comes to
00:42 matters of faith, matters of the Bible,
00:45 faith in God is by very definition a rather intellectual
00:48 exercise, that is to say, what does the Bible say?
00:53 And beyond that, what does the Bible mean?
00:57 However, faith in God is faith in God.
01:00 It's not just about a belief system.
01:03 A person who has faith in God
01:05 enters into a relationship with an individual.
01:09 So far from simply the intellect being involved, the emotions are
01:14 and must be involved when it comes to matters of faith.
01:19 How can a person be emotionally healthy, and how does that,
01:24 or even does that, affect our relationship with God?
01:27 We're going to find that out today, because my guest,
01:29 my special guest, is Dr. Neil Nedley,
01:32 the president of Nedley Health Solutions.
01:35 Dr. Nedley, thanks for being here, welcome to It Is Written.
01:38 NN: Thank you. Great to be here, John.
01:40 JB: Intelligence. NN: Yes.
01:42 JB: It's not just about the mind, it's about the emotions,
01:45 because I'm hearing more and more, and I'm hearing quite
01:48 a bit of it from you, about emotional intelligence.
01:52 NN: Yes. JB: Now, what's that?
01:54 NN: Emotional intelligence is really five things.
01:57 Knowing our emotions, in other words,
02:00 being aware of what we are feeling and why, precisely
02:05 why we're feeling that way. Secondly, managing our emotions.
02:10 People with low emotional intelligence are managed
02:13 by their emotions. People with high emotional
02:16 intelligence still have emotions, but they are managing
02:19 those emotions. JB: That's a really key point
02:22 that, isn't it? NN: It is.
02:24 JB: Being controlled by, but controlling your emotion.
02:26 NN: Exactly. And controlling your emotions is
02:28 also vital for part of the psychological good life that's
02:33 being emerging in a lot of studies, called self-control.
02:37 Those who have self-control actually psychologically are far
02:41 better off than those who don't. The key element of that is
02:45 managing our emotions. That's part of self-control.
02:48 JB: And what are the other three?
02:50 NN: The third one is recognizing emotions in others and really
02:53 having some empathy toward others, which is part of
02:56 recognizing emotions in others. Fourth is managing relationships
03:00 with others. And then five, in the word
03:04 emotion is the word motion. And so the fifth part of
03:08 emotional intelligence is motivating yourself to achieve
03:11 your goals. JB: What do we talk about when
03:13 we talk about our emotions? They are joy, sadness,
03:17 you tell me. NN: Sure. Actually,
03:18 calm is an emotion too. Sometimes we think calm
03:21 is not feeling. But no, the emotion of feeling
03:24 calm is actually normally a good thing.
03:26 Bitterness, sadness, disappointment.
03:30 JB: Okay. So why is emotional intelligence
03:36 important? NN: Well, IQ is our capacity to
03:39 learn, retain and apply knowledge.
03:42 And emotional intelligence is being able to manage our
03:47 emotions, to know them, manage our relationships with others,
03:51 and proper motivation. JB: Do we need to make a big
03:53 deal out of this, or can't people just be people?
03:56 NN: Oh, people can be people. I'm not saying that we shouldn't
04:00 be ourselves and be people. But we should, actually,
04:03 be balanced people and in control of ourselves.
04:06 JB: It's not being managed by your emotions
04:09 but managing your emotions. NN: Exactly.
04:11 We all go through nuisances of life.
04:13 Studies show that successful and enjoyable living is
04:17 much more connected to emotional intelligence
04:20 than general intelligence. JB: Okay, that's key.
04:22 You can be someone who's emotionally intelligent,
04:25 but you can lose your grip. NN: You can lose your grip.
04:27 JB: And pay consequences. NN: And what is ideal, I mean,
04:30 not only is it ideal, but it really ramps it up, is when we
04:33 have comprehensive emotional intelligence all the time.
04:38 And it's possible. Not only is it possible, it is
04:41 something that every human being can actually achieve.
04:46 JB: How do you take this thing under, get your emotions under
04:49 control and function really positively?
04:52 NN: There's two main ways. One of the ways that often,
04:56 you know, studies focus in onto is what
04:59 we're putting into our body and what we're doing with our body.
05:03 So, for instance, if you're on a regular exercise program,
05:06 it helps your emotional intelligence.
05:08 If you're getting adequate sleep, it helps your emotional
05:10 intelligence. If you're eating the right
05:13 foods, it helps the emotional intelligence.
05:15 So those are important but, it turns out,
05:18 not the most important. As important as those are,
05:22 the most important thing affecting our emotional
05:25 intelligence is our beliefs, our evaluation of events,
05:30 the way we think about problems, and our silent self-talk.
05:36 This is the moment-by-moment messages we give ourselves.
05:42 That is the most crucial aspect to emotional intelligence.
05:45 JB: But you can eat your way to healthier emotions?
05:48 NN: A few years ago there was a businessman who won the contract
05:53 for the California prisons. The first thing he did was he
05:58 had a nutritionist interview the prisoners coming in to the
06:02 California state prison. And the nutritionist told them
06:06 what they were eating could actually have an effect on their
06:09 emotions and emotional intelligence.
06:11 And it turns out that the diet she was recommending-- and, of
06:15 course, there's scientific backing for this-- was a
06:17 plant-based diet. And some prisoners thought it
06:20 was punishment enough to be in prison, but to be on a
06:23 plant-based diet would be cruel and unusual punishment, so they
06:26 chose the typical American diet. But it turns out over 90% of the
06:32 prisoners chose the plant-based diet, meaning that she was a
06:36 good educator, and they were motivated to try this diet.
06:41 Within a few weeks, they mentioned how, you know, for
06:45 anyone who's been in a prison, there are stressful things that
06:48 happen in that prison, from the other prisoners and from the
06:50 guards, and herding the prisoners around,
06:53 and a lot of stressful things. But they noticed that they were
06:56 able to manage their emotions, and they were able to talk to
06:59 the security guard, even if they were upset, they were able to
07:01 talk to him in measured tones, and the security guard actually
07:04 listened to them. And they said, you know what?
07:07 I think if I were eating like this on the outside,
07:09 I probably never would have ended up in there.
07:12 The people who got out, it was actually a
07:14 correctional facility. And so they were corrected,
07:19 to a large part, in regard to what they
07:20 were putting into their bodies. So it can have a crucial impact.
07:24 JB: Controlling your emotions. You can control your emotions
07:27 and be emotionally intelligent. And that's going to have a
07:31 powerful impact on your relationship with God.
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08:01 JB: A Mayo Clinic study has found that pessimists have
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08:55 JB: This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw.
08:57 Thank you for joining me today. I'm being joined by Dr. Neil
09:01 Nedley, the president of Nedley Health Solutions, and today
09:03 we're discussing emotional intelligence.
09:07 We hear about IQ, but what about EQ?
09:12 We're learning that a person can be in control of their emotions
09:17 rather than be controlled by their emotions.
09:21 And Dr. Nedley, there are so many people who loath themselves
09:24 because they lose their temper, or there are people who wish
09:27 that they could be up because they continually seem to be
09:30 in a funk. And I know that right now lights
09:32 are going on, and people are saying, "You mean I don't have
09:34 to be a slave to my emotions?" NN: No, absolutely not.
09:37 In fact, we have the evidence, in just ten days-- now,
09:42 it's a comprehensive program but, you know, for instance,
09:44 right now even as we're speaking here I'm running a
09:48 ten-day program for those with severe depression
09:50 and anxiety. One of the tests they take is an
09:53 emotional intelligence test when they come in.
09:56 And when they leave they'll take it again, ten days later.
09:59 Our program enhances the frontal lobe, analyzes the way they
10:04 think, those sorts of things. It's not specifically for EQ,
10:08 but what happens in the average mentally ill individual is their
10:14 emotional intelligence goes up by well over two standard
10:19 deviations. They start out below average
10:22 in general, and they end up in the
10:23 top 20 percentile of the country in most instances.
10:27 So not only do they leave depression- and anxiety-free,
10:31 they also are poised for success on a level that's far higher
10:36 than people who've never suffered from depression
10:39 and anxiety. So the point is, in ten days,
10:43 if you focus in on it in the right way, it can dramatically
10:46 change for the better. So emotional intelligence
10:49 can be learned. It's not just inherited.
10:51 JB: If I believe a certain race of people have no rights
10:55 to live, this is going to dramatically affect the way I
11:00 express my emotions, hate, persecutional, that may be not
11:03 an emotion, and that's going to affect how I act out
11:07 toward people. NN: Yes.
11:09 JB: Okay, if I believe in "love your neighbor as yourself,"
11:12 surely then that's going to impact my emotions.
11:14 NN: Exactly. JB: What was number 2?
11:17 NN: Our evaluation of events. JB: Meaning something happened,
11:20 and how do I perceive that and weigh that up.
11:22 NN: Exactly. JB: Explain that.
11:23 NN: What we want to do is be very objective in our evaluation
11:27 of events. JB: For instance, that lady who
11:30 served me at the check-out, she was rude,
11:34 she had an attitude toward me, I'm so ticked off.
11:38 However, somebody else says, you know,
11:41 I saw that she had just dropped a box on her toe and she
11:44 was under some stress, and therefore...
11:46 Is this what we're talking about, evaluating events?
11:48 NN: Our bad emotions are not caused by things outside of
11:53 ourselves entirely. JB: Okay.
11:56 NN: For instance, if the person was very rude to you at the
11:59 counter, what you need to recognize is for you to get
12:04 upset at that, you have to actually not only be
12:08 treated rudely, but you have to allow that individual
12:11 to get you upset. JB: That's true.
12:13 You can make a decision-- NN: There's a decision
12:15 and there's a thought-making process there.
12:17 JB: That's really interesting. NN: And part of emotional
12:19 intelligence is recognizing that we are actually responsible
12:24 for our own emotions. JB: Point three and point four.
12:26 Evaluating events, that's learning to look
12:28 objectively at things that have taken place,
12:30 and not loading an event with the kind of baggage that's going
12:33 to weigh you down emotionally. What was three and four?
12:36 NN: The way we think about problems.
12:38 When you have a practical problem, for instance, your car
12:41 breaks down and you're in the, you know, you're in the middle
12:44 of having to get to work on time, and it's very crucial for
12:47 you to get to work on time. That's a practical problem.
12:51 But if you have an emotional reaction to that problem of such
12:54 where you're so angry and upset that you can't even wisely help
13:00 direct people get your car off the road and to the side, and
13:05 you're so emotionally upset that you can't think properly to how
13:10 it's going to get fixed, that's going to be a major issue.
13:14 And so often people, when they have a problem,
13:16 they actually introduce another problem that is
13:18 often worse, and that is their emotional reaction to it.
13:22 And when they realize, hey, that practical problem is going to be
13:25 there whether I'm miserable about it or not, so why not just
13:30 give up my misery over it? And then they can actually think
13:34 far better, actually be far more better relationship partners,
13:39 and they can actually get to the root of the problem often,
13:42 and correct it far better. JB: Point four?
13:45 NN: Point four is our silent self-talk.
13:47 Those are the moment-by-moment messages we give ourselves.
13:50 JB: Okay. NN: And here's the issue in
13:51 regard to that. Our feelings, actually, what we
13:56 think has more to do with our emotions than what is happening
14:01 in our life. And what a lot of people don't
14:05 realize is, research has documented that negative
14:09 thoughts which cause emotional turmoil nearly always contain
14:14 gross distortions. On the surface it appears valid,
14:18 but often when we have these very negative emotions we have
14:21 some irrational beliefs, our thinking often is twisted
14:26 or just plain wrong, and actually,
14:28 twisted thinking is a major cause of suffering.
14:31 JB: Boy, there's so much we could talk about here, but I
14:33 want to get to how we think, how a person can learn to think
14:41 positively and productively. And we're going to see how this
14:45 powerfully impacts one's relationship with God.
14:48 Learning to think straight and be emotionally intelligent.
14:53 More in just a moment.
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15:25 JB: This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw, joined today
15:28 by Dr. Neil Nedley. Dr. Nedley, we're talking about
15:32 emotional intelligence, how to manage your emotions rather than
15:35 being governed by your emotions. NN: Yes.
15:40 JB: We talked about some fascinating things.
15:42 In just a second I want you to tell me how to think straight.
15:45 NN: (laughs) Okay. JB: But give me an example of
15:48 somebody who was confronted with a negative situation, rather
15:51 than caving into the situation and just bottoming out,
15:55 they approached it in a positive light with good consequences.
16:01 NN: Well, a good ancient example is actually Paul and Silas.
16:04 You know, they were taken against their will, they were,
16:07 they had done nothing wrong deserving of this.
16:09 They were beaten 39 times with a cat-o-nine-tails, and then they
16:13 were put on an irregular dirt floor, not a nice even floor,
16:18 their feet were put up in stocks.
16:21 JB: Yeah, that's a bad scene. NN: And you would think that
16:24 they would be crying uncontrollably in prison,
16:26 and saying, "Why us, Lord?" JB: And, in fact, they had
16:29 gone-- this was in Philippi, and they had gone there,
16:32 I think it's Acts, chapter 16-- they had gone there
16:34 to do God's work. NN: Yes.
16:36 JB: They followed God's leading to this city to do this great
16:38 work for God, and all they get for it is this!
16:42 NN: Exactly. JB: And how would--
16:43 how would you react? NN: Yeah.
16:45 JB: You know. NN: Instead, they had happy
16:47 looks on their faces, and they were singing praises to God.
16:51 And what that demonstrates is that our thoughts have much more
16:56 to do about how we're feeling than what is actually
17:01 happening in our life. So what was happening
17:04 in their life, they should be feeling terrible.
17:05 But their thoughts were not pop psychology thoughts.
17:09 Pop psychology might say, imagine you're on a beach
17:12 in Hawaii. That would have worked for
17:14 no more than 1.2 seconds. But they were thinking true
17:16 and accurate thoughts. And those true and accurate
17:19 thoughts were so powerful that even under the most torture-some
17:22 conditions they could have a happy look on their face and
17:26 they could sing praises to God. That's how powerful
17:29 the thoughts are. JB: Isn't it true--
17:31 I've done this in group sittings--
17:33 isn't it true that you can choose to feel miserable
17:36 and very quickly you're miserable.
17:39 NN: That's right. JB: If you focus in on something
17:40 and you think of something negative, very quickly.
17:42 At the same time, you can choose to think positive thoughts,
17:46 and I mean productive, not airy-fairy stuff.
17:49 NN: No, that's right. They have to be accurate
17:51 thoughts, but they can be on the positive side.
17:55 And what we have a tendency to do is think of only one side of
17:59 the equation and not balance it out with the whole better world
18:04 view that would help our emotions.
18:06 JB: There's a lot of "poor me," "I didn't deserve this,"
18:09 "Life is so unfair." And that doesn't tend to make positive,
18:12 productive, healthy people. NN: No.
18:14 And what we need to realize is, if we live in this world we are
18:18 going to be treated unfairly. JB: That's true.
18:20 NN: Sometimes very significantly.
18:21 I mean, this is a world of sin. To me, I get excited when
18:26 I actually am treated fairly, because I expect that in this
18:30 world of sin we're just going to be treated unfairly at times.
18:32 But how we deal with the fact that we are being treated
18:35 unfairly has a lot to do with our emotional intelligence.
18:38 JB: So how do we learn to think straight, to think right,
18:40 to think healthily? Because this here
18:44 is going to-- this is life-changing stuff!
18:46 NN: Yes. JB: Walk us through some of
18:48 these ways that we can think straight.
18:52 That's my terminology. NN: The first thing we need to
18:54 do is to analyze our thoughts. So we're not going to be able
18:57 to think straight unless we are able to actually analyze
19:01 the thoughts that we have. JB: That sounds like
19:04 something only someone with a Ph.D. could do.
19:06 NN: (laughs) Sometimes the people who have the most
19:08 difficulty, I've noticed, are really into the
19:12 National Football League. So I'll give them
19:13 an example they can understand. JB: All right.
19:15 NN: I'll say, listen to the John Madden in your thoughts.
19:19 You know how there's a big, you know, event that occurs,
19:22 you know, the big play. And John Madden goes, and then
19:25 he explains and slows it down and says, "Okay, now this
19:27 happened because of this, and this happened
19:29 because of that," and so it's all laid out.
19:32 JB: All right. NN: So when things happen,
19:34 listen to the John Madden in your thoughts,
19:36 and analyze what happened. JB: What really happened.
19:39 NN: Secondly, you have to look for distortions
19:42 in your thoughts. JB: What is a distortion
19:44 in your thoughts? NN: Turns out there's
19:46 ten different ways of distorted thinking.
19:49 And so all-or-nothing thinking, for instance...
19:52 JB: What is that? NN: ...most of the time
19:53 is distorted. An example of that would be a
19:56 patient that I had who came to me who was a successful
20:00 businessperson, but he ran for Congress and he lost the race.
20:03 And he comes to me and he says,
20:05 "Dr. Nedley, I lost the race for Congress.
20:08 I am a big zero." That's all-or-nothing thinking.
20:11 Just because you lose a race doesn't mean you're a big zero.
20:14 Just because you get a divorce doesn't mean you're a big zero.
20:17 Just because you flunked a test doesn't mean you're a big zero.
20:20 But that's where all-or-nothing thinking leads to.
20:23 JB: Ah, okay. NN: And it can happen the other
20:25 way around as well, where just because I hit a home run that my
20:28 team won the World Series, I'm the most valuable player and
20:32 there's nobody better than me. That's actually a setup for an
20:35 emotional disaster as well. And so both of them are actually
20:40 distorted thoughts that are going to lead to problems.
20:42 JB: Okay. NN: And then there's other
20:44 things, like a mental filter. You know, an example of this is
20:47 someone who came to one of our programs recently.
20:49 He says, "You know, my life is just,
20:51 it's just terrible." And I said,
20:53 "Well, explain." He says, "You know, my wife nags,
20:56 I've got bills piling up, my boss yells at me
21:01 almost constantly. And furthermore, I'm going bald,
21:06 and I'm short and fat," and, you know, that was
21:09 his side of the equation. As we continued the
21:12 conversation, I realized he had a wife who was very attractive,
21:16 he actually had kids that he had a good relationship with,
21:21 he actually enjoyed his church, he had good friends, and even
21:24 though he was short and fat, he could still walk
21:27 and feed himself. JB: So how did he get this thing
21:30 so far out of whack, and what could he do to adjust this?
21:32 This just takes looking at this with new eyes, right?
21:35 NN: That's right. When you have a mental filter,
21:38 you have to be intentional and forceful for looking
21:41 for evidence that supports a different way of thinking.
21:45 JB: Glass half full, glass half empty.
21:47 NN: That's right. JB: You can learn to look
21:48 on the positive side. NN: Yes.
21:50 JB: Wow. NN: And sometimes
21:51 it does take time. It has to be intentional
21:53 and forceful. You know,
21:54 Joseph suffered from PTSD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
21:58 He could smell the smells of the pit, he could hear
22:02 the exact voices, he knew what those brothers did.
22:04 When he was faced with them, of having all of that poor
22:07 emotional reaction, he refused to have a mental filter,
22:11 and he was an intentional and forceful for searching
22:14 for a different way of thinking about his brothers.
22:17 And it took him time, but he found that different way
22:19 of thinking about his brothers, and that's when he revealed
22:21 himself and that great family moment occurred.
22:24 JB: What are some other ways to learn to think--
22:27 to learn to think? NN: Over-generalization
22:30 would be another one. JB: They're all alike.
22:31 They all treat me bad. Is that an over-generalization?
22:33 NN: That's an over-generalization.
22:35 My roommate in college, I remember he had his eye
22:38 on a girl for about six months before he mustered up
22:40 enough courage to ask her out. And when he comes back, and she
22:44 turned him down, you know, he's ready to cry, and he says,
22:47 "Neil, I'm destined to be lonely and miserable
22:50 the rest of my life." JB: All right.
22:52 NN: And he over-generalized two ways.
22:53 One way is because she turned him down once, he knew she was
22:56 always going to turn him down. Did he really know that
22:58 to be true? No.
22:59 Secondly, 100% of eligible women had identical taste to hers,
23:03 and thus he would be endlessly rejected.
23:05 JB: Uh-huh. NN: And so people with
23:06 that cognitive distortion have a fear of rejection,
23:09 fear of trying new things. And it's actually the cognitive
23:12 distortion that can affect even great people.
23:14 JB: Yeah, that is a distortion, isn't it?
23:16 NN: When we have the ability to generalize, which is high IQ,
23:20 we have a tendency to over-generalize.
23:22 And over-generalization is going to cause emotional problems.
23:26 JB: In Philippians chapter 2, verse 5, the Bible says,
23:30 "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."
23:36 Verse 13: "It is God which worketh in you
23:39 both to will and to do of His good pleasure." So is the key
23:42 here being connected to God and remaining connected to God?
23:45 NN: The Bible says, "Be transformed by the renewing
23:48 of your mind." That means correcting
23:51 the distorted thoughts. And David said to God,
23:54 "Search me, try me, know my thoughts."
23:57 What he was saying is, see if there's any distorted way.
23:59 I want to know about it. I may not see the distortions,
24:02 but see if you can point out the distorted ways, so that I can be
24:05 led to life everlasting. And so it's not just knowing
24:10 the truth as far as doctrinal teaching.
24:15 The psalmist also said, well, who's going to dwell in my
24:17 tabernacle, thy holy hill, those that walk uprightly and
24:21 state the truth to themselves. Not just telling others
24:25 the truth, but telling themselves the truth.
24:27 That is really those who will be ultimately successful.
24:30 JB: The wonderful thing is, we can, we can take responsibility,
24:36 implement some theoretically simple steps and practices,
24:43 we can have new minds. NN: Exactly.
24:45 JB: Think new thoughts, and it can certainly be done as we
24:49 allow Christ into our minds. We can start thinking His way
24:53 and be healthy emotionally. NN: Bringing every thought to
24:56 the captivity of Christ. JB: Amen.
24:58 Dr. Nedley, thanks. NN: Thank you.
25:01 JB: What a blessing to know that emotional intelligence is
25:03 something you can possess, and when your mind is renewed,
25:07 your relationship with God is going to be like
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26:29 Thank you for your continued prayerful support.
26:32 Again, our toll-free number is 800-253-3000, and our web
26:38 address is ItIsWritten.com. JB: Dr. Nedley, we've covered
26:43 some ground today, and I wish we could have covered
26:46 a whole lot more. What a magnificent topic.
26:48 Thank you very much for joining me today.
26:50 NN: Thank you. It's been great being here.
26:51 JB: I think we'll take the opportunity to pray now.
26:53 Join us, would you, as we pray together?
26:55 ♪ [Gentle Melody] ♪ Our Father in Heaven,
26:57 we can be transformed by the renewing of our mind.
27:01 By your grace we can bring into captivity every thought to the
27:04 obedience of Christ. And I ask you that you would
27:07 take possession of us to such an extent that our minds would be
27:11 one, the mind of the believer and the mind of the great God
27:14 of the universe. So sovereign Lord, I pray,
27:18 give us a new mind, let us think your way,
27:22 transform us emotionally, and grow us that we can
27:27 be one with you now, and for all eternity.
27:31 In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
27:44 ♪ [Theme Music] ♪ JB: Thank you so much for
27:47 joining me today. I'm looking forward to seeing
27:49 you again next time. Until then, please remember,
27:53 It Is Written: Man shall not live
27:56 by bread alone, but by every word
27:59 that proceeds from the mouth of God.
28:02 ♪ [music swells] ♪


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