Living by Faith and Not by Emotions - Saturday Service

father we thank you for this another opportunity to minister to these your precious sheep thank you lord that revelation knowledge will flow freely uninterrupted and unhindered by any satanic or demonic force speak through my vocal cords think through my mind none of me and all of you it's in jesus name we pray and everybody said amen praise god well welcome to church world changers church new york and i want to get right into this because it's something i i'm trying to stick with the practical i'm trying to stick with the things that if you're not careful the pandemic and all the things that are going on will rob you of those things and so uh i want to talk to you tonight about living by faith and not by emotions living by faith and not by emotions that's so very important because you know you think you're living by faith when sometimes you're actually living by your emotions and in second corinthians chapter 5 and 7 i want us to start there he says for we walk by faith and not by sight we walk by faith and not by sight now some have just limited that to being we walk by faith and we don't walk by what we see but what he this word sight is talking about your senses we walk by faith and not by our senses or uh precisely your sensory mechanisms we don't walk we walk by faith but we don't walk by what we can see hear smell touch um your senses so you're you're not gonna walk by your senses and and even by your emotions you're gonna walk by faith and not by your emotions so in our relationship with god we must learn how to walk by faith and not by sight not by appearances and not by emotions and as christians we have a tendency to to do that sometimes sometimes we walk by how things appear and sometimes we walk by how we feel emotions are feelings on the inside designed to move you in a direction and if you allow those emotions to sometimes their negative emotions will take you in the wrong direction away from the plan and the will of god for your life so we must make the transition from emotion to faith ha and you know sometimes well i don't know if i ought to say that but we even got to be careful in church not to really get on people's emotions and and and and not teach them the word of faith or something that they can walk by faith in uh so the transition from the emotion of feeling god's love to the faith of knowing god's love i wanna i don't wanna i don't wanna have to get up and say well today you know i really feel like god loves me i wanna be able to get up and say today i know god loves me so we got to transition from that feeling that emotion that god loves me to faith of knowing that god loves me regardless how you feel and so god's word will give you i believe the stability that some people look to uh to their emotions to provide some people look to their emotions to provide stability god's word is gonna provide that stability uh that you look to your emotions to provide now god wants us to live by faith in him and not by our emotions he wants us to live by faith in him and not by our emotions emotions depend on circumstances emotions depend on the physical realm what's going on in the physical realm it depends on circumstances but faith is a product of the heart it it it deals with the spiritual realm faith is the product of the heart emotions it's uh it depends on circumstances or it depends on the circle that you stand in uh but your faith is a product of the heart it depends and it's standing on those spiritual things so emotions can be touched or influenced by the devil he can touch your emotions he can influence your emotions you know that he can touch and influence your emotions but spiritual truths are eternal and that's why we have to make that transition over to the spiritual truth and not live a life being led by our emotions especially when they are negative you see a man that cannot control his emotions is the weakest man on the planet and you let your negative emotions get out of control you start allowing them to lead you and they lead you straight to jail they lead you straight to a divorce they lead you straight to poverty and all these other kind of things so we've got to make that transition so based on your life on god's um when you when you when you base your life on god's unchanging word word instead of basing your life on on your emotions see the difference is you your the emotions they change they fluctuate but when you base your life on god's word it it's stable and not on your fluctuating emotions base your life on god's word somebody says oh i don't feel i base your life on god's word don't base your life on how you feel you you can't you gotta you gotta say this i i'm not moved by how i feel i'm not moved by what i see i'm moved by the word of god there's stability i'm moved by the word of god there is stability when you do that so we will reject bad emotions listen to this careful we we will reject bad emotions and i'm talking about christians we'll reject anger we'll reject depression but um we think something's wrong when we don't have emotions in our relationship with god we reject bad emotions anger and and all that but we think something's wrong when we don't have emotions in our relationship with god and i'm not i'm not teaching being emotionless but i know god loves me uh and i don't need to feel that he loves me and and and i've got to make that transition i know he loves me i don't need to feel that he loves me so it's not it's not this big problem if you don't feel or have emotions in your relationship now they're godly emotions and there's nothing wrong with feeling good and feeling happy and all that other kind of stuff but i'm saying that does not determine the stability of your relationship with god we're talking about walking by faith and not by your emotions okay so when we walk by faith we're not we're not um you know calculating what's going on with you emotionally your emotions should be a result of your walk by faith uh but your walk by faith should not be determined by your emotions and i think that's what i'm saying so faith not emotions is uh is the victory that overcomes the world you know first john chapter 5 verse 4 this is the victory that overcomes the world even our emotions no even our faith the victory that overcomes the world it's not our emotions it's not based on how you feel sometimes you're a christian you're gonna wake up feeling crummy sometimes you're gonna wake up and just you know and sometimes you're gonna have an emotion of hopelessness and all that kind of stuff uh you'll have an emotion that comes from being broken but you've got to learn how to rise above that make that transition and say i don't live by these emotions i live by the word the word of god now go with me to hebrews chapter 11 and uh and verse 6 hebrews chapter 11 and verse 6 and in verse 6 he says but without faith it's impossible to please god for he that cometh to god must believe that he is and that he's a rewarder of them that diligently seek him so you're pleasing god when you you know accept his word this is what you live by and you allow faith to be the stabilizer in your life and so controlled emotions you know you know what that equals spiritual maturity when your emotions are out of control and you cannot control your emotions that is also clear evidence of your spiritual immaturity i don't care how long you've been saved you can't control your emotions and you haul off and you hit people and you you decide i'm gonna cuss you out because i don't like what you said or i'm having a bad day and tell people they can go here and go there yeah that's just that's just uh evidence that that you are spiritually immature but controlled emotions is evidence of your spiritual maturity evidence of your spiritual maturity now right here you know we want to look at psychology versus spirituality psychology versus spirituality and i find this quite interesting look listen to this um psychology says give vent to our emotions and allow them to run their course psychology says don't feel bad for feeling this way psychology says don't hold anything in just let it all out just let it out well to tell somebody to just let it all out it don't matter if it's good bad whatever just let it all out this is like riding a horse with no bridle no bit no reins uh that that you use to control the horse you're saying take the bit off the rains off everything and there's danger of riding a a a horse without being able to control that horse because you you just let it all out and not controlling your emotions is on that same level the same way you just you just decide well i don't need a the the rains the bit the bridle i'm just gonna throw it all out just let it all out and it's just that's it's dangerous to ride a horse without that that equipment and so likewise not being able to control your emotions will lead to serious trouble as well and so it's it's very important psychology has basically taught us how to cope and how to blame everyone else for how we feel and act so we don't have to experience guilt or take responsibility and that that's not how that works because i i can't be responsible for your happiness i'm not gonna accept responsibility for your happiness and you know uh we've been trained by psychologists to cope with things and you know it's your fault that i feel this way and that i act this way and and almost i'm gonna blame it all on you so i don't have to walk around with the guilt of it well something negative happens to us on the outside there is bound to be a negative reaction on the inside and so that's how we're made but a knowledge we can learn to control we can learn to control those negative emotions just like we can control that horse james three and three says something and i'll explain it to you again using that same uh illustration james chapter three and three he says behold we put bits in the horse's mouth that they may obey us and we turn about the whole body now if you've ever ridden a horse before if you can control the head you can control the entire horse i mean that's you know i used to have horses and i um if you control the head you control the horse but if you don't control that head then that horse will then try to control you so the same thing is true with our emotions emotions are very powerful force but that doesn't mean we have to be at the mercy of those emotions god intends for us to control our emotions and the way we control our emotions is we we got to control what's in the head just like you control that horse it's simply a matter of knowing god's truth from his word and then applying those things in our lives instead of allowing what's going on in our head to in a sense lead your life you got to get god's word and allow god's word to lead your life it becomes the bit in the mouth it becomes the bridle and you've got to understand if the same thing is true with our lives as it is with a a horse control the head the body will follow control your mind control what's in your head control your thinking let your thinking line up with the word meditate on the word day and night then you can control your whole body so god's word is the bit god's word is the bridal god's word is the rain and that gives us control over our emotions and when we live by god's word guess what happens faith comes and then faith will override and neutralize any negative emotion but you can't live this life without the word of god you'll let it all out get out of control and not like the end of this thing so the mind controls emotions and you can renew your mind the mind controls emotions you remember when i i taught on the anatomy of life whatever you expose yourself to [Music] uh that will determine how you think so what are you around what are you exposed to that determines your thinking then your thinking determines watch this how you feel so your emotions are determined by what you're thinking and your thinking's determined by what you're exposing yourself to so if you want to control your emotions you got to control what you're thinking and if you want to troll what you're thinking you got to evaluate what what what are the influences that that are surrounding you what are what are what are you around you know uh your influences will determine the way you you think the way you think determines how you feel how you feel will determine uh the decisions you make those decisions will determine the actions you take those actions will determine the habits you create and whatever habit you make is going to turn around and make you those habits are going to determine your character your character is going to determine your destination and everything wherever you end up is going to be based on those influences that surround you now if you want to change the way you feel somebody says i don't feel good well you got to check out what you're thinking about and why are you thinking this way you got to check out what you are surrounding yourself with and so uh if you can get your mind to line up with god's word and control your your your mind then it'll control your emotions so we can learn how to control our emotions by looking at things differently uh for example in ephesians chapter 6 and 12 you got to learn how to look at things differently you got to learn how to look at things differently you can control those negative emotions ephesians 6 and 12 satan uses people to get you emotional emotional satan will use people to get you emotional emotionally ephesians chapter six and verse 12 he says for we wrestle not against flesh and blood my fight is not against you know the ball so that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but our wrestler matches against principalities those are demons against powers demons against rulers of darkness of this world demons against spiritual wickedness in high places and so when someone attacks you you must realize that it's a spirit working behind that person who is attacking you i remember when i was working at the hospital uh years ago and uh my supervisor came in and um boy it was it was it was a tough meeting and uh i decided well i'm not fighting her um that's a that's a spirit working through her so i say i said a simple prayer i said father i take authority over that spirit that's working through my supervisor and i command that spirit to cease in this maneuvers against me in jesus name i came back the next day it was like a new person i'm like wow this thing is really true now see you listening to what i'm saying tonight really and see that's why you catching so much hell at work because you're not understanding that you don't fight flesh and blood you're fighting principalities powers wicked spirits in heavenly places that are doing their best to try to get you emotional and try to get you in a way where you're walking by your emotions and not walking by faith i can't tell you the number of people who whose lives have been messed up because they keep being led by their emotions they don't know how to be at ease they don't know how to be calm they're just emotional people their emotions control them every day all the time and then the worst thing they can do is say well that's just me that ain't just you that's you being created informed by stuff you don't understand and so also what really makes one angry the thing that i had to think about because i used to get angry a lot and i had to realize what really made me angry was my pride and my self-centeredness my pride and my self-centeredness now you would think well no people don't get angry just because of their pride and self-centeredness look at this scripture in proverbs chapter 13 and 10. i tell you what when you're confronted by the truth of god's word you have to back up and say well yeah maybe that might be it proverbs chapter 13 and 10 uh now it's it's pretty strong because it takes away everything else how he says this he says only by pride cometh contention he says contention can't come any other way except by pride so if you're in contention you must be in pride because he says only by pride cometh contention but with the well advised is wisdom so what really makes one angry is pride and and self-centeredness so i had to learn how to deal with my self-centeredness i had to get me out of the center and put somebody else in the center and i had to learn how to do it with my pride my pride was really my way of wanting to do something instead of seeking god's way of wanting to do that and so you you've got to you got a lot of word to take control of your emotions you got to allow the word to be that bit in your mouth and those reigns and you gotta you just can't you you can't afford to take the advice of the psychologist and say just be out of control just get it all out even if it's something crazy don't let that happen if i weren't so concerned about promoting myself and if i really loved other people more than i loved myself then i i would have uh such a problem with my emotions you know uh if i did that it's only a very selfish person who gets so angry that they become emotionally upset and i had to realize that and i also had to realize that my my anger was really fear that my anger was really an expression of my fear now you think about the anger is an expression of fear it's an expression of what you are afraid of and so it's it's not only a selfish person who gets so angry that they become emotionally upset but it's also a fear for person who gets so angry that he becomes emotionally angry and upset uh i realized this i was in the car i i i can see it like it was yesterday i was in a car with my wife and um at that time she was running the record label and she was getting ready to do business with somebody that i i just didn't feel good uh with her doing business with that person and and i got angry and and the lord said what are you afraid of and i said i said to god don't you mean what am i angry about he said no i want to know what you're afraid of he says your anger is just an expression of your fear and i got out of thinking about that as you know let's just say for example you got a wife and she wanted a credit card and she was going shopping and you thought she's gonna be back in two hours and she was gone all day for nine ten hours you got angry not necessarily because she'd been gone long but you were fearful that she might have spent a lot more money than than you thought on that credit card and so your anger is an expression of your fear and so what's going on your life has been controlled by your emotions and notice and it's it's about you my credit card and what you're doing with my situation and and fear is selfishness is fear-based and and pride is fear-based and so that's that's the real issue that has to be has to be dealt with so if we can if we can diffuse that self on the inside of us we can defuse that anger and that's that's living by faith and not living uh by your emotions so what about your limit of faith is there a limit where your faith is concerned i've this is important i want to mention this before i have to stop i you know i i've learned i can't use my faith on everybody i i used to think well i'm gonna use my faith and you know bless god they're gonna want to show me favor well you cannot comp you can't have complete control over other people and you definitely can't have control over other people's will you know god allows you to have superiority not to be superior over one another but to have superiority over all of his creation see anytime you want to use your superiority over other people uh then you probably have a problem controlling your emotions because when you can't control your emotions then you're going to want to try to control somebody else and and so that's that's the problem with superiority we're supposed to be superior over the creation over the animals and all that stuff that god created but when your emotions are out of control you're going to want to try to control other people and that's not what that is for and so you cannot have complete control over other people and you definitely can't have control over people's will when your will your your right to make a decision that's a gift from god you are a free moral agent that's what your freedom is about your right to decide to make a decision to choose life or death to choose blessings or curses to choose to walk and live by faith or choose to walk and live by your emotions that's that's something you gotta decide you have to decide am i going to live by my emotions and let them direct my whole life my marriage everything even my finances or am i going to live by faith live by god's word and allow my life to be directed by faith and my life to be directed by the word of god you're a free moral agent my faith can't change it nobody can change it you have a right to decide to do that now there is a way that seems right unto a man but the end is destruction so i don't want to live my life based on a way that seems right i want to live my life based on a way that is right and that right way can be found in the word of god it it most of the time won't be be found in my emotions my emotions will lead me down the wrong path and i'll end up somewhere that i'm like dear god how did i get here but man if i live my life by faith it'll lead me down the right path and i'll i'll be where god wants me to be so you got to change inside by changing and controlling emotions so regardless of what people do to you that you are going to walk in love if you can change that decision that i'm not going to be emotionally rude i'm going to be word of faith ruled and if i'm word of faith ruled then the bible teaches me to love my enemies if i'm word of faith ruled then i can love what's not lovely if i'm word of faith ruled i realize that i can love because christ loved me first which enables me to love second and love in a supernatural way the reason why the holy spirit romans 5 5 poured the love of god in my heart to enable me to love what's hard to love because i now have a supernatural love because of what he has done on the inside of me but i tell you right now they're christian people i know today who are still being led by their emotions they are emotional at church and they are just as emotional at home and they are emotional in their relationships and they're emotional in their spending and they're emotional with other people and you ask them their life's not doing too well but you take people who decide to live their life by faith you take people who've made the decision that i'm gonna i'm gonna live by faith and not by my emotions they'll tell you their life has drastically changed instead of uh losing it they're patient they receive self-control as a gift from god they operate with a spirit of ease they're steadfast and extremely patient about a lot of things and so you got to make your mind up how will i live my life will i live my life by faith will i live my life by emotions what are you prepared to do how do you do this thing well everything starts first of all with this word it's a quality decision that i'm going to live my life by the word well i don't know about that bible you right you don't know so until you do don't even say that i'm going to live my life by the word of god i'm going to get in this word i'm going to apply these principles to my life it's going to be a whole lot better than you live your life by emotions that are conjured up because of pride and self-centeredness do you do you know that self-centeredness is the master key to bitterness if you have ever met a bitter person a bitter person is bitter because they're self-centered and when they don't get the satisfaction of fulfilling their self desire selfish desires bitterness comes and a woman has to be real bitter before she even moves into adultery but bitterness comes because self-centeredness is the master key to that bitterness you know during this time of pandemic i'm sure that a lot of emotions have come in and out of your house um but i pray that our daily confessions our prayer line the preaching of the word has gotten you more focused in on living a life by faith rather than living a life by those emotions and so i declare all is well with you uh just some some things to help you to decide if you're not quite there that i want to encourage you examine the areas where your life is being led by emotions and um just back up and say no no i'm not i'm not living my life that way i'm going to live by faith and not by my emotions father we thank you for this time today and i ask your blessings upon all of those who are part of this teaching today i pray they got something out of it something that will help them to make better decisions lead them down a better path and i thank you lord that all is well satan is defeated jesus is lord and i thank you for victory in the lives of these your precious people it's in your name we pray and everybody said amen you know one more prayer before we leave if you're here today and you've never made jesus the lord of your life then i want you to do that i i don't i don't want you to you know even allow yourself to be emotional and to say well you know i just don't feel like god would save me or i just don't feel like god wants to have anything to do with me just get rid of that and decide to do what what the word says let's pray repeat after me heavenly father i realize that i'm a sinner but right now i repent of all my sins i ask you to come into my life be my lord and my savior remove me from the center of the circle and be my god thank you lord that i'm saved by faith and i receive you as my lord and savior in jesus name amen well if you prayed that prayer welcome to the family of god hey if you just got saved would you text i'm saved that's one word to 51555 uh give me your name and uh email and i'll send you this free ebook to help you uh in your walk with with jesus christ congratulations go to the comment section that people know you just got saved in world changes nation i want to encourage you to uh encourage those who just receive jesus as the lord well praise god again it's opportunity for prosperity it's an opportunity for you to worship god it's an opportunity for you to give to god to be grateful and thankful for what he's already done the bible says don't give grudgingly or of necessity for god loveth a cheerful giver so i'm not giving because it's necessary for me to please god i'm not giving because it's necessary for god to love me in in order to you know to to to do things in my life no i'm giving because i want to and i'm giving out of gratitude and thanksgiving for what he has already done so as you prepare to give if you'd like to text uh to give that information is on your screen you can text right there all right 74483 you can also call this phone number and they will help you out in your giving you can also mail to this particular address or you can give online right there everything you need is on the screen you can give online and they'll be glad to uh help you out you can also use your paypal online as well well god bless you i am um it's been fun the last couple of weeks and hopefully i gave uh pastor wes just a little break and uh i miss you guys so much can't wait to see you again we will we will be together soon we got a lot of great surprises for you the staff has been working diligently and very hard to make sure that um all is well at world changers church new york well god bless you we love you remember jesus is lord and in all of your getting get understanding [Music]

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Published: Sat Oct 17 2020