Taking The "L" - Losing Composure | Pastor Hart Ramsey

I want to talk to you today continuing the series that we started last week this sub series that we in up in this year of defined faith is entitled taking the ill and the word ill here's four losses of offer loss and in this series what we're looking at is how God can take a frustrating loss and turn it into a major win if we choose to trust him today we will be examining faith and emotions how they interacted together and I'm calling this lesson losing composure now normally when we stream and we've been very very intentional about shortening our messages but today if you will allow me to if you have the attention to lend me or to give me I want to take a little bit longer because what I have to share with you is very important and I believe it would change your life especially in this time um we want to talk about losing composure in Ephesians chapter four verse 26 from the King James Version Paul is writing to the church in Ephesus and starting in verse 20 he gives a series of do's or a way to live your Christian life in a practical way and in verse 26 he ends up he says be angry and sin not let not the Sun go down on your wrath and this verse is an interesting verse it's a verse that has what we call a clear directive be angry he says is he said you can't be angry there's nothing wrong me angry says but make sure in your angry you and your anger rather you don't sin but my translator translation of this verse is be angry but don't lose your composure and that's what we want to talk about is composure but I was reading this from the passion translation let me flip there for a minute and it says don't let your the passion of your emotions lead you to sin to miss God to go out on your own and do something that you later regret it says let the don't let anger control you or be a fuel for revenge not even for a day and flip back to King James because I want to I want to speak to this before we get into the lesson he says be angry um you taught you're permitted to do that but don't sin and the last part says don't let the Sun go down on your wrath in other words put a timetable on on your expression of anger this is critical especially in this time that we feel this emotion of rage for being intentionally and repeatedly wronged when you feel wronged after a while anger is what comes about now you must understand is I'm gonna tell you a couple things about your emotions that we have to really learn to our channel and and manage but starting here the word anger in this verse is from a word that means to be provoked to be baited or to be pulled into in an enraged state where we react instead of responding now the word react here deals with our acting vengefully when I react to a situation I try to do to people what they've done to me the word respond those often used as a synonym for reaction is a different word the word response means to answer again to answer again or to give an appropriate and measured answer to a situation so in reaction what I try to do is I try to go tit for tat and and reaction and revenge go hand in hand but the word respond is a word that means to answer to answer appropriately so the warning in this verse is not against anger it's against reacting and anger to the point where we lose control and get in the way what God wants to do in every situation that don't form the Lord says vengeance is mine I will repay but if I responded my anger then it gets in God's will and it blocks him from doing what he wants to do in James chapter 1 verses 19 and 20 it's reason verse 19 it says understand this my dear brothers and sisters you must all be quick to listen slow to speak and slow to get angry quick to listen slow to speak and store to get angry quick to listen eyes this is the thing quick to listen because I want to make sure that I'm here properly we're gonna talk about this later on but slow to speak in that the Bible says that a soft answer would turn away wrath and so I'm not just trying to manage my own anger but I'm trying to make sure that the people I'm dealing with aren't angered by my by my reaction or my response on slow to speak and I'm slow to get angry I'm taking my time the word smooth day it means use use or a slow speed to respond when I'm angry verse 20 says I'm human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires and I listen to this the Bible actually says that my anger if I don't handle it properly could get in the way of what God plans to do we don't want to get in the way of what God plans to do and so we have to have this thing called composure composure composure is the ability to hold it together especially when the stakes are high or when we are being provoked or baited you mean we need to learn to to kind of understand and discern when we're being baited into a situation the Bible says the enemy weapon watch out for the enemy because he's always trying to bait us into something he's always trying to use the lust of our flesh the desires of our human nature to get us off track and to get us doing something that will get us in trouble and move us outside of the realm where God can protect and provide for us so when we talk about composure we're talking about having a certain level of self-control a certain level of sanity a certain level of smarts about ourselves the way we act and respond now in our culture we have a simple term when someone loses their composure we call it on losing it we say or he lost it or she lost it and the it that we're for referring to is the peace is the poise it's the self-control of composure doing this time of quarantine I'm sure at some point cooped up in the house with your family wearing many hats feeling different emotions I'm pretty sure you've lost it and depending on the level of you're losing it you may be feeling a bit of shame or embarrassment or even confused as to how you are a person who loves Jesus a person who knows the word I personally considers himself an intercessor or pastor minister or or a loving mother or father or could have our experience our meltdown here you are but the people you love and they get under your skin and you lose it so when you lose it though the important thing to do is to own it don't blame others for your inability to control yourself self-control is my responsibility it's your responsibility so I have to own the loss I have to take the El in this situation I've lost my composure and only by only can I fix it and with God's help amen so now among other things today I want to answer the question does my faith protect me from experiencing negative emotions to the degree where I can control them because my faith protect me from losing my composure armed as believers especially and as people of people of color primarily we we don't we're not really in touch with our feelings we tend to avoid feelings we take me tend to want the skirt them and to try to get away from them or deny them but your feelings are real so we can't dismiss them if we keep dismissing our feelings will never learn how to manage them and we certainly won't learn to understand them in Psalm chapter 4 David who is a man after God's own heart makes a statement and this is actually the scripture that Paul is quoting he says don't sin by letting anger control you he says think about it overnight and remain silent think about it now notice now David David in in this Psalm that he's writing or points to thinking as a weapon against out of out of control emotions he says don't let's don't sin by letting anger control you he says think about it overnight and remain silent now look at our chapter 7 so I'm chapter 7 chapter 77 rather and verse 9 is the same kind of scripture he says don't oh you don't let me sleep I'm too distressed even to pray have you ever been so stressed out emotionally that that you can't him go to God and share within your heart because you're overwhelmed by stress he goes on to say I think of the good old days long since ended sounds like the time was written he says when my nights were filled with joyful songs and he says I searched my soul and ponder the difference now look at verse 7 he says has the Lord rejected me forever but he never be kind to me again oh look at verse eight is he is his unfailing love gone forever have his promises permanently failed verse nine has God forgotten to be gracious has he slammed the door on his compassion now I wonder of the reason I chose this on this series are a verses is because of the questions that he's asking notice what he's doing he feels a certain where he feels a certain stress so he begins to interrogate himself he begins to act certain questions about himself or to himself in an effort to try to understand listen and manage his emotions to understand first and manage my emotions if I dismiss my emotions and not give them any any critters off or don't consider them to be to be legit then what I try to do is I say well you know what I feel is not it's not it doesn't make a difference have you ever asked a person how you feeling and they say what difference does it make that's the person that that because they dismiss the emotions will never learn how to manage them and will never learn or understand when they are in danger of acting out emotionally the Bible describes God as having emotions God feels love God feels joy he feels anger the Bible even said God feels grief and in one places in particular God felt regret in the book of Genesis and because I heavenly father feels what that means is we also a prone to experience a wide range of emotions as well we're going to feel because God feels he made us as feeling creatures the problem though with human emotions is that we often affected our emotions are often affected by sin by our fallen nature and that makes my emotions number one unreliable we can't always trust them number two it makes our emotions subject to rapid change I can feel this way one moment I by the time I get to the front door I feel a totally different way I can leave home in a good in a good spirit and time I get to church I'm mad that's the way our motions are consist of a sinful nature but the most important thing I want to know I want you to know about your emotions is that J motions can actually be at times totally out of sync with reality in other words because you feel a certain way does not mean that's the way things really are how I feel can be real but it doesn't mean that it's right so in this lesson I will be using the terms feelings and emotions interchangeably because what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get you to understand that emotions describe the way we feel they're the same thing this word emote it means to emote means to feel or to or to express feelings publicly when have you ever seen an actor or in a scene sometimes you forget that you're actually watching a person acting out a script because they're so good at emoting they can cry at the drop of a hat they could laugh how do they do that it's something that actors learn call emoting well as humans we naturally emote and if you listen to the word emote you heard words like our motive the word motive it means what moves you that's what it that's what are the emotions are intended to do then it tended to move us many times when acts how do you feel we will respond by saying how we think or what we think and not recognizing that feelings and not thoughts let me give you a good example you acts a person how do you feel in the person say well I feel like going to bed well well technically technically that is not how you feel that's what you're thinking Oh wanting to go to bed is not a feeling it's a thought you got it now the reason we often don't know what we're feeling and I want to reiterate this is because many of us have been programmed from childhood to suppress or ignore our feelings or else you got it so you you will be your parent what made me shout at you and it hurts your feelings and you started crying say you stop that crying right now so you're not allowed to feel and many of us from chopped from a child have been put in a position where we either have to suppress or ignore our feelings as if they don't matter and so along in that along comes in the digital age a thing called emojis emojis are these images that are created to allow us to express our feelings digitally the thing about emojis though is that you can be feeling one thing but express another thing simply by choosing that emoji and I've done it my phone texting people and I'm laying my bed depressed and someone sends me something funny and I'm sent back laugh out loud or laughing emoji and at the moment I'm not laughing you got it we got to the place where we're so custom of misrepresenting how we feel because of the need in our younger days of suppressing or ignoring our emotions because the other person on the other end of the of the conversation don't know exactly how what's happening with you they can't tell that you're actually lying to them through emojis but when you're stuck in the house with people it's different when your child gets on your nerve when you have to cook and clean and be a teacher to and put on all the hats you can't lol your way out of a situation you can't smiley face your way out of a conflict you are forced in that moment to be honest about how you feel and that's why you explode it that's why you lost it that's why composure was gone because really what's happening with you is you've you forced finally to be honest about your motions your feelings are not always reliable we said that and while it's unwise to ignore what you're feeling you should never act on feelings without interrogating them in psalm 42 and verse 5 I love this scripture because this scripture shows again David the man of the God God's own heart asking himself a question he says why are they cast down on my soul and why art thou disquieted in me and then he gives the directive hope thou in God if I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance and verse 6 says o my god my soul is cast down within me their father will remember thee from the land of Jordan and and of the Herman Eisen of the hill my zarnow but this is important verse 5 look at the verse 5 verse 5 is important because when David sensed in his heart that that something was off Quixote's feeling was off the Bible says that he began to interrogate him 7 ask himself a question why are you cast down I believe it's important I believe it's important that when I motioned when we begin to emo and feel certain weight it is safe as a matter of fact it's practical and in most cases necessary to ask ourselves why do I feel like this about this situation why do I feel like that about her why is it that every time I see her I feel a certain way there's a thing called emotional linkage and the way emotional linkage works is that we would associate a certain emotion with the person the predominant emotion that you feel around a person you will literally begin to are armed marry that emotion to the person so whenever you see the person you feel a certain way and then you will blame them for the way you feel you say well they made me feel um yeah really I'm going to show you how people can't really make you feel anything really we're made to feel how we feel because of the way God made us and I'm gonna talk to you about that in a minute the word disquieted in verse five is a word that means to feel unsettled to me to feel upset or troubled literally in verse six he explains it he said I feel God that I feel discouraged that's the word he using for six I feel discouraged my soul is cast down I'll flip the verse six that I can see this for maybe you don't mind verse six I'll cast down why are you cast down within me that's what it means to be pressed down discouraged depressed and so he's interrogating it when was the last time you interrogated your emotions to find out why you felt the way you felt why don't you do it now why don't you ask yourself what I feel this way why is why is my heartless or feeling this way about a person or something a woman one time recently she said to me I said oh she's really talking badly about a person I said I said why don't you forgive the person in her responsible I forgave them well baby there's no way you could have forgiven them and talking like that about them now I want to add something that I think is gonna bless you if there's a scripture in Matthew chapter 18 where Peter is listen to Jesus teaching on forgiveness and he asks the question he said well Lord how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him seven times and the Lord turns to him and says no seventy times seven now whenever we hear that we immediately this miss it as impossible unrealistic but what the Lord was trying to showing was this if you're doing life with people if you're in a relationship a close relationship as in this case a brother or sister or someone that you're doing life with your brother in the Lord your sister in the Lord because of the close proximity you're gonna find yourself often having to forgive the person repeatedly if you do fragile relationships in other words whenever person messes up you so I'm done you can't be done so quickly and so what the Lord was saying was if you're doing life of the person the chances are you'll be a product a part of their sanctification process and while they're working things out in their soul especially if something is stuck in their soul or stuck in their psyche or they tend to behave or react or respond a certain way you're gonna be there to deal with the brunt of it and what you're gonna have to do is to continue to renew their contract so to speak to release them to forgive them so that they get a chance to grow in that area now um I want to show you three things that you should know they're three facts you should know about your emotions or your feelings this is important for you to understand number one my emotions were given to us by God to move us into action that's why that's why God emotions are given to us to emote us to push us to move us from the human process for initiating anything is to think then to feel then to choose than to act to think or feel choose and act often watch us now if you have a thought a creative thought a great idea and you don't you don't ever it doesn't ever move to the emotional state you'll get excited about it or motivate motivated about it that thought could die in the mental realm but this it works the same way if you have a negative thought and it never gets to the emotional room if you know how to grab that thought in the mental room and don't let it get to the emotional realm then what could happen is that thought could die and never see the light of day and you can save yourself a lot of heartache if we learn to manage that the way we made what happens is we can actually or think our way clear and think our way into success thoughts always produce feelings you feel how you feel because you think how you think which brings us to our second fact about emotions do you want me to say that again we feel how we feel because we think how we think and from there we could understand this emotions are only as reliable as the thoughts or the information that produces them and what it means is this is that is that that the emotion is the baby the thought is the mama okay the baby is gonna look like the mama the baby's gonna act like the mama that one Mother's Day what I'm saying to use this is that there's no way you could have stinking thinking and I have stinking emotions there's no way you could have pessimistic thing to pessimistic thinking and not have pessimistic emotions the way I think is gonna be the way I filled wrong information or negative thoughts will always create wrong feelings or negative feelings what you feel as I said before may be real but it may also be wrong so you must leave room for the possibility that your feelings those strong and convincing to you may be wrong and misleading you've got to understand that you are capable of seeing things the wrong way mentally and then therefore feeling the wrong way have you ever had the wrong thought about a situation that went down and then totally went off and lost it and then when you finally understood what was going on you feel kind of bad so oh my god I what I thought right that's that's what happens we feel the way we feel cuz we think the way we think things usually feel a certain way because of the way we've trained ourselves to think within the framework of the story we tell ourselves not not I don't want to get deep into psychology today but this word ego when you hear the word ego you think of a person with pride but ego does not talk about pride primarily what ego speaks of is the story that we keep telling ourselves to frame our life ourselves actually your ego is your false self it's the story that you have to tell yourself to deal with issues that happen in your past and you built this ego and everything you think and feel actually if you don't if you're not in touch with your true self you that you have an egotistical life it doesn't mean your pride it just means that your your false self is living for you thinking for you and feeling for you feelings are created and colored always by our thoughts emotions of how your thoughts feel emotions or how your thoughts feel the third thing you need to know about your emotions is that feelings of fickle and it can change quicker than the weather so never make a major decision a covenant or major purchase because of how you're feeling in the moment if you if you're in a store look at it a big-ticket item and the person said if you don't buy it now then then you're gonna miss out on it always walk away never make an emotional purchase I noticed about myself that when I make emote emotional purchases I always have buyer's remorse you all set buyer's remorse some of you felt now in the moment oh man just love this person the person you didn't even check them out you don't even know anything about him you just had a feeling in the moment and you messed around and made a covenant around a feeling and then when the feeling change that you want to break the covenant that's for another day but you see where I'm going with this that's how feelings work so the question is can faith can my faith have an impact on my feelings well in Romans chapter 12 in Romans chapter 12 and verse 2 the scripture says Paul Estelle talked to the church in Rome he said be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove which is that that which is good and acceptable and the perfect will of God in Romans chapter 12 verse 2 from the New Living Translation I loved it the first part it says oh don't copy the behavior and customs of this world but let God transform you let God change you into a new person a completely new person by changing the way not the way you feel but the way you think so the Bible makes clear reference over and over again to the role that our thoughts play in our transformation in a change lives and I want to take you through a couple scriptures remember that scripture though in Romans 12 and 2 so let God transform you into a completely new person by changing the way you think look at Psalm 23 and 7 from the King James Version here's what it says it says you we'll be all in the scripture for as he thinketh in his heart so is he that's the part I wanted as he thinks in his heart so is he as a man thinks so is seen not as he feels as he thinks and when you go through the scripture God looks in one place God says my thoughts are not your thoughts my thoughts are higher than your thoughts therefore my ways are higher than your ways notice now the way I think will produce mouth the way I walk or the way I live yes that's true that's what God says all the way through scripture he speaks about our thinking in Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 22 it says throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life which is corrupted by lust and deception in verse 23 says instead let the spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes let you let the spirit renew your thoughts not your feeling your thoughts by renewing your thoughts just the spirit can renew your attitude the attitude is what comes out of how I think when you said that person having attitude is all in their head it's the way they're thinking now let me speak to that for a moment God can totally up with our lives by changing the way we think he listened you said pastor you don't understand I get so emotional I get so depressed you understand my emotion just just take over I would say to my wife sometimes saying you are a feeler and the Lord rebuke me recently and says no she's not feeling she's a thinker people who live inside of their heads tend to be more emotional because thoughts are very heavy and weighty they're supposed to be your thoughts will be weighty but if your thoughts are negative in any way and they rest upon your emotions they were crushed and David asked why you cast down the answer is is because there's so many heavy thoughts resting upon the emotions in it in the time we live in this pandemic era but this with this murder we just saw in the video a method act there were two murders within a couple of days that we saw those thoughts that you think can literally make you feel so horribly like in my case I couldn't sleep the first night that's that's how heavy thoughts are you said pastor I just feel kind of off many times you feel off because of you have some you're suppressing thoughts into subconscious and your subconscious mind is literally pressuring you into feeling a certain way but the Bible says that God can totally up with our lives by changing the way we think he does is by number one altering the way our minds process information God wants to change the way up your mind processes when you look at a situation and you go home what am I seeing many of us the first thing that happens to us is we think something negative God wants to change that God wants you to see opportunity and every problem not a problem in every other opportunity God wants you to see that a closed door means that there's another door that's open somewhere else God wants you to see that all the people in this situation people are dying all around us it doesn't mean you're gonna die although people are tripping and although of all the people that probably you want to be in power and not in power it doesn't mean that you are disadvantaged he wants to change the way our minds process information number two God wants to edit the story that you keep telling yourself yourself talk he wants to do this so that you don't keep reliving the same chapter of your life some of us our lives in a loop we're telling ourselves the same story over and over again nothing good ever happens to me I'm always messing up I'm just a failure no I don't care but you did mess up I don't care me stuck in a cycle of sin it does not mean that you are a failure you are not your sin God knows your sin but he calls you by your name and that's what you need to do is to say I may have messed up but I am not messed up you got it number three god upgrades our life by giving us truth so that our thoughts the things that we think are not the product of guesswork and therefore I emotions don't lead us down the wrong path so the Bible mentions nothing about emotional transformation because transform thoughts give birth to transform emotions you'll never see in the Bible where God says that you'll be transformed by emotions he understands that if he can change what you think he will always be able to change what you feel having faith doesn't mean that we will experience less grief or anger or guilt or sadness or shame or jealousy because we know Jesus know it doesn't mean they will experience less than the person that doesn't know Jesus what it does mean however is that we will learn how to handle our feelings then differently from people that don't know the Lord and that's important a casual reading of Scripture reveals that people even people with strong faith at some point in their lives will rock to their core by some experience that causes them to have to deal with negative emotions things were always happy in your life that will cause you to have to deal with negative emotions in Hebrews chapter 12 verse 21 it took two different words to explain or describe Moses's emotional state when God thundered from Mount Sinai on the day that he formally introduced himself to the nation of Israel Moses had heard God speak before but on this particular day God seemed authoritative and angry he had never heard God speak like that and the Bible says in Hebrews 12 21 Moses himself was so frightened at the sight when he saw the mountain that he said I'm terrified and trembling give me King James I want to show them the King James real quickly it says and so terrible as a sight that Moses said I'm exceedingly fee I exceedingly fear and quake now let me tell you as his crew are this is critical when Moses left the mountain Mount Sinai to go to the fair with a tell him let God's people go he left a burning bush when he came back the whole mountain was on fire and that was different from so when he saw the sight it terrified him there are two words that the Bible says that the Bible uses rather to explain or describe where Moses was the first word is the Greek word EXFO boast that the prefers prefix X means out and Phobos means to fear it literally means to be scared out of your mind watch this now it's to be scared out of your mind that means if I'm out of my mind that means that my thoughts are being are not my normal thoughts and my emotions are being governed by something that is not that is not under my control scared out of his mind the second world isn't Ramos the word in the prefix n means in and it means to be simply shaking so deeply that you can't stop trembling have you ever been in a situation where you get a near-miss in a situation maybe almost got hit by a car something and you felt yourself trembling you can stop yourself that's in the greek is called int ramos that's what Moses experienced he was a humble man he was a man of faith a man who knew the Lord yet he experienced great fear and his assignment later on was cut short because he didn't manage his anger so as a believer although you have faith it doesn't change the fact that you will have to deal you must learn how to manage understand and deal with negative emotions now faith will affect the way we think the way we see life but especially what we imagine and this is how faith deals with emotions it's through governing imagination from the Word of God images are painted in it within us and those images become strong for us that we the Bible encourages us to meditate upon when we meditate on these thoughts they actually change and shift the way we feel there's no way to change how you feel without first being intentional about changing the way you think um your brain is programmed to protect you and that's what it's going to do that that is the program that your brain runs it will try to protect you in any way to the point where if something so traumatic happens your brain would literally shut off all your nervous functions and you a call we call it you fainting you will literally faint because your brain is trying to protect you so in order to bypass or to do a workaround on your brain you have to use the process called meditation where you go into the Word of God and begin to meditate on the Word of God on the truth on the good things under the reality of what God says it on is yours all belongs to you and let that begin to change the way you feel when I was a kid my father used to be at work and he would call home and say listen um y'all get dressed we're going to the beach and I don't care what kind of day I was having my dad my dad would call to say we're going to the beach it would change the way I felt immediately excited to go to the beach that's what the Word of God is supposed to do to you it's supposed to change your thinking in such a way that it changes how you feel when you believe God's version of your story your imagination will create an anticipation of good that will change your feeling every time looking forward to something looking forward to something good will always lift your spirit now I want I want to back up for a minute and say this imagination is not something we talk about a lot in church because it's always something super spiritual but how many of you knew that your imagination is a righteous gift from God your imagination is a part of your spirit it functions in the realm of the soul but to be able to matter or imagine or or to image something when you hear word is a gift from God so you must understand that if your faith can't change what you imagine then your faith can't lift you up when your life drags you down I want to say that again if your faith cannot change what you imagine it cannot lift you up and life drags you down now when you believe God's version of your story your thoughts will begin to change and your feelings will begin to change I want to close with this today and in all things Jesus Christ is our example so let's see how he handled his emotions in the critical time of life it was at the Last Supper they left the Last Supper and they went to the Garden of Gethsemane the Bible says in Matthew 26 and 36 then cometh to Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane and his and saith unto his disciples sit ye here while I go and pray yonder verse 27 said 37 says rather and he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy now that's important he took with him now he left eight of the disciples in one spot he took the his three closest with him and the Bible says he began to be he he actually let his guard down or let his his arm composure his less composure go and he let himself fall apart in front of them and the boxes began to be sorrowful and very heavy let me - those two words for a minute the word sorrowful means - means extreme sadness and grief or to be to be caught in the stress of the moment so we must understand mr. what we just taught you that Jesus was feeling this way because of all the thoughts he was having what was going through his mind was in in a not so distant future within 24 hours he would have to to be separated from the father for the first time in his life all through his life all through his existence he had this connection with the father and it was coming quickly and the thought of that depressed him so badly that the term the phrase he used very are very are heavy means to be discouraged and depressed verse 38 the Bible says then he said unto them my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death wait here or tarry here and watch with me he became discouraged and depressed if Jesus could be discouraged if Jesus could be depressed by the thing he was thinking then what about you what do you think is happening to you what do you think let me say this to you if you don't have thoughts of hatred you can't feel hatred forgiveness is something that happens in the heart first it actually happens in the mind someone I just can't forgive him yes you can the firt if you were to shift your thinking from what they did to you to what Jesus did for you if you shifted your thinking from the fact that I got to let them get away with this - how many times will the Lord let me get away with things through forgiveness it changes the way you feel about forgiveness faith does not safeguard us from negative emotions in this life as I said we will feel sadness anger heartbreak loneliness depression our emotions will run the full gamut of human experience they will but faith does prevent us from living under a constant cloud of pessimism and defeat faith stops us from acting and behaving like everybody else remember this we feel what we truly believe that's the truth the way you feel it reveals what you truly believe no one has ever felt like they were going to win without thinking they were gonna win if you feel you're gonna lose if you think rather you're gonna lose you're gonna feel that way too you always feel what you truly believe so spend time building your your belief systems sometime strengthing and building your faith because when you do that and it changes the way you feel that my last point is this there are three ways your faith should affect your emotions three ways jot them down comment them under the comment section and we'll be done for the day and I pray this wasn't too long for you but we needed this I know I did three ways your faith should affect your emotions number one it should shift your thinking because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God when I hear the word of God I don't just hear the word of God him put it in a notebook or say Amen to it I incorporate what I hear into my belief system faith shifts my emotions affects my emotions by shifting my thinking number to faith affects my emotions by shaping my imagination it changes the images I see in my mind so that I literally see in my mind the things that God says about me and in number three faith affects my emotions by swaying them so that I feel I literally begin to feel what I believe and my heart for you today is that although you may lose your composure again before this pandemic is over before the quarantine is over you may lose your composure today while you're eating your Mother's Day meal at least you know that losing it happens because my thinking is not properly aligned and my anger got out of control I pray this word bless you today god bless you

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Published: Tue May 12 2020