UNDERSTAND
EMOTIONS
Emotions or Feelings are strong,
complex internal responses involving bodily changes that prepare us for action.
They are sometimes helpful and at other times hurtful. They come in positive
and negatives; they are not evil, and certainly not holy. Emotions can make you
laugh an hour and cry the next. Not wanting them doesn’t stop them from coming,
and wanting them does not make them come. They are apt to quit on us when we
need them the most and flare up when we wish they would go away. The truth is
we are always going to have emotions and it’s not a sin to have them. It’s when
we follow them that we often get into trouble. But I believe through the power
of the Holy Spirit, you and I can learn how to recognize our feelings and
realize where they are taking us. Then by God’s grace, we can learn to manage
our feelings instead of letting them manage us.Enjoy yourself in their presence but don’t get
stupid, many women are in wrong relationships because their decision to love is
based on feelings.
Feelings
are part of our soulish realm, we are a SPIRIT
(the place where God himself lives), we have a soul and we live in a BODY. Our SOUL is the intangible area between our spirit and our physical
body. The SOULis made up of our MIND, WILLand FEELINGS or EMOTIONS - the soul tells what we
think, what we want, and how we respond about particular issues. And of these
three areas of the soul, (the mind, the will & the feelings) it’s
our feelings that get start up the fastest and can lead us into temptation the
quickest. Once our feelings get stirred
up they can quickly deceive our mind. After this happens, the voice of our
conscience, which operates from our spirit, is denied its normal standard of
judgment. In other words, our God given inner voice of insight and understanding
becomes drowned out by the cries of our feelings. In this unstable state we
don’t know God’s views for what we should and shouldn’t do. As a result we
commit to things we don’t have to commit to, we quit doing things that require
us to remain a part of, and do things that damage our lives.
The
success you have in soul management determines the degree of success you have
in life management; God created us to be in control of our emotions to walk in
His ways, your emotions should never control you – Truly as believers, it is
God’s greatest desire that you and I progressively learn how to be led by His
Spirit. However there is a powerful enemy that stands in the way of seeing this
take place. That enemy is our emotions or feelings. Satan is the most powerful
enemy externally but internally, it’s our feelings that give us some of the
biggest problems.Negative words produce
negative thinking, which produces negative emotions, Adam and Eve knew
what God said regarding the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You need to
understand that what you give your attention to; it will birth a desire for
that thing of its kind, when you think all men are liars you are going to miss
every potential man God will bring your way. When we follow our feelings
instead of following God’s spirit, we are living the life of the flesh, and
this keeps us out of God’s will. Those who obey their human nature cannot
please or satisfy or be acceptable to God, (Romans 8:8); now this doesn’t mean
God doesn’t love us. What does it mean that He is not satisfied with nor will
He accept fleshy behavior.
VARYING FEELINGS FROM
DISCERNMENTS
Feelings
are of the flesh, they are shallow and constantly subjected to change, and
discernment knows the mind of God in the midst of anything. This is given by
the Holy Spirit who lives in the inside of us. It is so important that you
relate with a person who will help you achieve the best in the heavenly
affairs, someone who is standing in the Lord and moving to have more of God’s
Spirit than going out with someone who draws you from the throne of grace –
remember what James 4:8 says - draw near to God and He will draw near to you.
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