Overreacting!

Any over reactors out there? I never react, and I especially never overreact. I always respond in a loving, Christ-like way. Ha! Yeah right! I wish this could be said of me, and I am believing one day it will! So, I am confessing my tendency to overreact. Right about now, my family and Christopher are probably saying, "Yes!" and "Amen!" For most of the time, they are the ones who get to experience my overreacting to its fullest potential. James 5:16 says, "Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray for one another, that you may be healed and restored. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available (dynamic in its working)." Oh Jesus, heal me. I need Your power to overcome all of my weaknesses, but I am asking especially in the area of my emotions. I want You to be in control. Forgive me for my extreme moods and for letting things that don't matter upset me. I need You. I trust You to be my Defender when I am offended. My heart longs to draw near to You. Thank You for Your patience with me. I feel like I say that a lot, but I mean it. I am overwhelmed by Your loving-kindness. Empower me by Your Holy Spirit to be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to take offense. I know that my overreacting does not promote Your righteousness and glory. Help me to rid my heart of all uncleanness, and in a humble spirit receive and welcome Your Word which implanted and rooted (in my heart) contains the power to save me. Make me a doer of Your Word. I want to continue to partner with You in this process. I feel like I have been that woman in the mirror who looks carefully at her natural face and then goes off and promptly forgets what she looks like. Pour out Your grace that I might persevere in looking to Your Word, being faithful to it, not being a heedless listener, who forgets, but an active doer (who obeys). I want to live a life marked by obedience, compelled by Love. 

"Heal my heart and make it clean.

Open up my eyes to the things unseen.

Show me how to love like You have loved me.

Break my heart for what breaks Yours.

Everything I am for Your Kingdom's cause!

As I walk from earth into eternity..."

-Hillsong