WHERE DO NEGATIVE EMOTIONS TAKE YOU?
There isn’t any temptation that you have experienced which is unusual for humans. God, who faithfully keeps his promises, will not allow you to be tempted beyond your power to resist. But when you are tempted, he will also give you the ability to endure the temptation as your way of escape.
We live in a world that is strictly governed by what we “feel” and although that doesn’t line up with what God wants for our lives it is the way society places us. It is not right, it is not just and it is not of God. The world teaches us if it feels good it must be right, WRONG. You have to step back from what society says is correct and go with what is biblically correct on all standards. Our emotions don’t start off as sins; it is what we do with those emotions that could turn into a sin. Whatever you say starts off as a mere thought, then the thought moves into a feeling. The feeling turns into an emotion and the emotion gets acted out through a broken spirit. Negative emotions are internalized fear such as; anxiety, worry, guilt, regret, jealousy and anger. Negative emotions have a unique way of stealing our peace of mind & well-being before we even realize it has happened. One thing you have to remember when it comes to negative emotions is YOU ARE NOT INVINSIBLE. Negative emotions can and will find you, it’s the devil’s sure fire way of latching onto your thinking and pushing you over the edge with sinful habits.
Come to me, all who are tired from carrying heavy loads and I will give you rest.
Negative emotions are not the problem, but the symptom. It is your body’s way of saying that something “seems” wrong and you need to act RIGHT NOW, wrong again. The devil wants you to think that you need to act right now based off of feelings alone, but the word of God tells you to be quick to listen and slow to speak. When you feel a little negative during a situation that is God saying to you, “you are out of alignment with His perfect will and His divine destiny.” I know that you did not ask for the negative emotion to come, but our thoughts & feelings generate how we handle situations. Decide once and for all right now that you will go inward for solutions and not outward for temporary fixes. Don’t let your feelings control who you are, we are imperfect in all areas of our life, but our Heavenly Father is perfect & can make the light of our paths be visible. He can make our paths straight & lead us to a positive, happy & secure position in our life where destruction can be avoided.
When he arrived in Rome, he searched hard for me and found me
When dealing with a negative emotion:
1. Identify the negative emotions to yourself
2. Write it down before you speak it out loud
3. Ask yourself where the negative emotion is coming from
4. Ask Jesus what he would do
5. Release the emotion to God through prayer
6. Do this over & over without putting a voice to the emotion.
I truly believe that the devil places a negative emotion on the inside of us and he is waiting ever so patiently for us to give voice to the emotion. Once we do this he snatches us in and continues to make us “think” the emotion is real and justifiable. The devil is at the end of every single negative emotion, he is the starter, the one to blame. The negative emotions will tell you everything you want to hear and that everything is acceptable. They will tell you that it’s okay to lie, to cheat, to steal, to disrespect and cause harm. They will tell you that it is okay to stop caring about your spouse because you have differences and that you can just love again one day. They will tell you that you do not have to care about the people around you that you can just meet new friends. They will lie to you and conform your mind that it’s not sinning, it’s just making things okay and that you are fine. If negative emotions tell you it is okay to lie, think about it long and hard, because they already lied to you.
What I fear most overtakes me. What I dread happens to me.
Do not let your emotions control you, they are NOT for you, they are against you and they WILL cause you a great deal of pain. If you become caught up in negative emotions & negative feelings you will find yourself in the same situation time & time again. The heartache will continue and you will sit down one day and say, “why does everything go so wrongly for me?” The reason is because you have taken a seed that the devil planted in your mind as a negative emotion, you gave it water, let it grow and take root. Then you opened your mouth and let the negative emotion out in some form whether it be talking badly, or taking a physical action towards someone or something. The devil caught on that you were hooked and he dug his claws in even further. Now that he has your mind thinking the negative way of life is perfectly okay and “normal” then he can start transferring all the negative data he wants you to go forward with. You have to be smarter than the devil, and he isn’t real smart by the way. He only “thinks” he is. Be two steps ahead of him!! When you feel a negative emotion coming forward take it and capture it, hold it hostage & release it to NO one except for God.
Good people do the good that is in them. But evil people do the evil that is in them. The things people say come from inside them.
Albert Einstein said it best, “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
It takes you recognizing that you have a negative emotion starting to spark and taking action immediately through God’s grace to put the flame out before it can spread to all areas of your life. Just think you have a chance to detour from a major sin, so just pay close attention and never take action on an emotion. Don’t confuse wisdom guided through emotions because wisdom is only guided & produced through God. Learn to control your thoughts, then your emotions, line them up with God’s word and trustworthy feelings you can count on will follow. You want to be led through God, with his acceptance & stamp of approval on everything you think, say and do in your life. Once you learn to spot a negative emotion or feeling you will be 2 steps ahead of the devil and a lot closer to God. Learn to see the positive in things.
I have a hard time dealing with the way I want things to be and the way things actually are. For example just today at lunch I was on the phone with my husband and I was complaining (yes I am a sinner). I was not fussing, just merely “worrying” about things I cannot control and things that are down the road. Childcare during the summer is a whole different ball game verses during the school year. We have one child in infant daycare and two children in afterschool care only. Well in the summer that afterschool care is non-existent and all day care is needed. People charge so much to watch two children that can basically do everything themselves they just need supervision. So I have been calling around and trying to figure out what to do. Do you know how much it is going to cost on average for three kids during the summer???? Try in the neighborhood of $1700 dollars a month. Yep a month, you heard me right. It’s just NOT Christian at all, ha! It’s something that we just have to pray about and slowly dip into as best we can. It’s not something we can avoid, it’s going to happen and it’s going to happen in like, um, less than 3 months. So anyways, I was talking to my husband about that and here comes the devil pushing me to say, well we need to budget better, we need to do this, what about this, what about that, on and on. He said, “Kylie, slow down, we always make it through, just chill.” He is exactly right and I should have seen the devil pushing me further and further, but I didn’t until he pointed it out. I am fully confident in seeing the devil lurking in bushes when someone is speaking to me, but I have the hardest time when it comes to me and my own emotions. So I completely understand how easy it is to become trapped into stinking thinking. Just know that God wants more for our lives than that type of heart ache. God wants us to recognize the negative emotions and whatever may branch off from it and not let it escalate into some type of sin we regret later. Just spend a lot of time being silent and think about things before you speak. If you have to, say them in your head before you say them out loud to see if they are going to be negative or not. We have to try for our own happiness to be positive and always know that God has our best interest at heart, he has the book of our life and he knows tomorrow. We cannot cloud up today’s sunshine with a chance of rain tomorrow. My favorite quote EVER! Just try that is all you can do and when you start recognizing the negative emotions creeping in you are headed on the right track.
A tranquil heart makes for a healthy body, but jealousy is like bone cancer.
Negative emotions can also lead to health problems. Studies say that stress induced health problems including heart issues were at an all-time high last year. People take things that they cannot change, and they meditate on them over and over again. If you cannot change a situation, let it go. Negative emotions can drive you stir crazy and cause you to pack more and more harmful feelings into your body. Your body can only handle so much stress before the stress starts manifesting itself outward. Don’t let the devil have this much control over your life, your actions and especially not your health. You are worth more than that. Take time to sit down and write down the emotions that seem to be stressing you. Write down any negative feelings that you may be having. Once you write them down make immediate changes to eliminate the negative energy in your life. Submit prayers to God and ask him to show you loud and clear when you have taken a negative emotion further than it ever needed to go. Make God aware that you struggle with negative energy and you need him to hold you accountable to your actions and thoughts. God will make you realize what you are harboring and the things you need to let go out to sea. Don’t let your passion for life be robbed with the tendency to spread negative emotions and energy around like the plague. You are worth more to God than that, and the people that God has put into your life deserve better than that. Be the person God created you to be, the kind, sweet, positive person he molded you to be. You are unique, the mold was thrown away after you were created and there is not another soul like yours. You can do this, it is not something you fight alone, and God is there to always fight your battles. Release all your negative emotions to Him; let him deliver you from evil.
The Lord is fighting for you! So be still!”
God Bless you all,
KD
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