How
to Deal with How You Feel
Proverbs 25:28
Proverbs 25:28
God loves you just the way you
are. He loves you unconditionally. But he loves you too much to let you stay
that way. So he wants to help you
grow. He wants to help you become more
like his Son.
“What we don’t talk out we act out!”
A person who is at the mercy of their emotions
has thrown themselves into the hands of the devil. 1 Peter 5:8
Emotions and feelings are God-given for us to experience
life.
What Exactly
Are Emotions, Feelings and Moods?
· Emotions are chemicals
released in response to our interpretation of a specific trigger.
· Feelings happen as we begin to integrate
the emotion, to think about it, to “let it soak in.”
· Moods are more generalized. They’re not tied to a specific incident, but
a collection of inputs.
When properly discerned, emotions orient
me to my world. They connect me
to what is around me and properly relate me to what surrounds me.
It is most important for each of us
to learn that we create our own moods. Our responses are shaped by our thoughts
– by what we tell ourselves.
Feelings handed off to feelings
create problems. Feelings handed off to logic create solutions.
Emotions are far more prone to exaggeration
than logic and can lead to reactions instead of responses.
Our Emotional Cup Luke 6:45
· We live in a fallen world,
we're surrounded by fallen people, and we ourselves are fallen.
It's not a matter of if we'll get hurt; it's just an issue of when.
Refilling our Emotional Cup Ephesians 4:29
· Painful emotions remain;
positive emotions must be replenished.
Why I Must
Learn To Manage My Emotions
· Because My Feelings Are Often Unreliable Proverbs 14:12
· Because I Don’t Want To Be Manipulated
· Because I Want To Please God Romans 8:6-8
· Because I Want To Succeed In
Life
1 Corinthians 9:24-25
When you say, “I gave my heart
to Jesus,” you gave your emotions to Him to be managed by Him as Lord of
your life..
