Can Your Faith Change Your Personality?

Can Your Faith Change Your Personality?

Some highlights from this article:

I learned to depend on Him.  I learned to wait, to listen, and to surrender. It became more important to me to feel God’s presence than to have my problems solved.

I didn’t think it was possible to recapture the easy going and care-free naivitee I always wanted.  But, God created a new spark in me despite my unbelief.  He’s created something that wasn’t there before.  He restored love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control in new ways.

I’m no longer Type A. I just became that way because I wanted to control my circumstances.

I am now learning to discover the personality God designed in me.

Some Type A Characteristics and Behaviors:

Type A individuals tend to be very competitiveand self-critical. They strive toward goals without feeling a sense of joy in their efforts or accomplishments.

Inter-related with this is the presence of a significant life imbalance. This is characterized by a high work involvement. Type A individuals are easily ‘wound up’ and tend to overreact. They also tend to have high blood pressure (hypertension).

Type A personalities experience a constant sense of urgency: Type A people seem to be in a constant struggle against the clock.  Often, they quickly become impatient with delays and unproductive time, schedule commitments too tightly, and try to do more than one thing at a time, such as reading while eating or watching television. (Mcleod 2011) (http://www.simplypsychology.org/personality-a.html)

• Exaggerated Sense of time urgency: Since the type A thinks that time is running out and since his goals are too big he always races with time. If you want to lose a type A in few days then waste his time (by making long phone calls or let him wait too long)
• Competitiveness: The type A is a very competitive person, he considers everything to be a challenge. He is challenging the circumstances that led to his insecurities and he will challenge every thing else that stands in his way.
• Multitasking: The type A can handle more tasks at the same time than ordinary people . You can easily know that a person is Type A if you found that he is involved in at least five unrelated activities while performing well at them all.
• The Price for Over Achievement: Over achievement does not come for free. Type A’s are subject to tremendous amounts of stress. Their life style is the main cause of this stress they suffer from (always running, having lots of things to do & racing with time)

(http://www.2knowmyself.com/Type_A_personality_definition_characteristics_traits/what_is_a_type_a_personality_behaviour_stress) 

Lord I pray that you may change me from a Type A to a Type F just like Bonnie Gray. In Jesus Name. Amen.

- Courage Man