EPISODE 0015 | How To Deal With How You Feel
THESE NOTES ACCOMPANY EPISODE 0015
If you don’t control your emotions, they will control you. Managing our moods is a crucial predictor of success or failure in life. Learning to master your emotions is essential for achieving the success that God intends for you. Today, Pastor Stephen discusses the importance of learning to deal with how you feel and the impact it has on your journey to fulfilling God's plan for your life.
“The most important commandment is this: …you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.”
Three things the Bible teaches about our feelings:
1. God has Feelings.
2. Our ability to feel is a gift from God
3. We must avoid two extremes:
Emotionalism: all that matters is how I feel.
Stoicism: feelings aren’t important at all.
Why We Must Learn To Master Our Feelings: Let’s look at three important reasons why you need to learn to deal with what you feel.
Our feelings are often unreliable.
Our feelings can be manipulated.
Our feelings can cause us to hurt our self and others.
How to Master Unwanted Feelings:
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Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus”
Name it
Challenge it
How do you challenge what you feel? Three questions to ask yourself:
What’s the root of this feeling? it’s fear. Maybe it’s worry. What’s the real reason I’m feeling this?
Is it true? Is what I’m feeling right now true? Is it proportionate.
Is what I’m feeling helping me or hurting me? Sometimes this is the simplest thing to changing an emotion - by simply saying, “Is what I’m feeling right now going to help me get what I want to get or is it actually going to hinder me getting what I want?”
Master it
RESOURCES:
Stronger is an 8-week discipleship course designed to challenge you to consider biblically and engage practically the spiritual war happening all around us every day.
The Apostle Paul highlights this spiritual war in 2 Corinthians 10:3-4 when he tells us that “We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.”
In this eight-week course, you will learn how to put on the full armor of God listed in the New Testament Book of Ephesians and how to overcome the spiritual forces that seek to hold you back and destroy your life as a Christian.
With purchase you will have access to 8 online sessions to accompany the workbook.
