God made us with a variety of different emotions so that we
can channel them for good and to glorify his kingdom but our focus is off when
we are in an emotion that is not of him. God is of peace and would never want
his child in despair so feeling anxious with doubt and of loneliness is not him sisters.
We have a situation in front of us and it makes us feel uncomfortable so we
panic. We choose chaos instead of peace. We think that God needs our help so we
call everyone we know and start to speak defeat. Or we sit in a corner and
entertain a anxious heart and think “I am an anxious person, I always been this
way”. We don’t use our words to focus on the positive or have any faith we
start giving life to every emotion under the sun. We give into anxiety instead of peace.
I think that what we miss it all when we think about emotion
and feelings and we get too caught up in them (preaching to myself here). We
think because we “feel” a certain way that we have to “act” in a certain manner
than we just rely on our flesh to respond and it just is a mess. We fail to
look to Jesus in the whole scenario. We fail to see why we are “this way” in
the first place. We take no accountability. We start to think “oh, I am like my
parents”. We start giving ourselves titles and speaking things into existence
based off of one single feeling. We forget who we are in Christ just like that.
Why, sisters?
We are human, that is why and we will fall short daily BUT
we can call upon the name of Jesus and trust him in that exact moment. We are
of flesh in a dark world where the enemy is very present. We are messy and sin
is in our lives, we are not perfect and never will. But we do have dominion we
can hone in on and ask the Holy Spirit for guidance. As believers, we daily take
up our cross and strive to be better remembering that God is at the center of
everything we do. When we purposely shift our thoughts, emotions and responses
to life’s trials we see the beauty (Jesus) in the pain and can choose peace,
joy and hope, not ourselves in a situation. We can do this supernatural thing
because sin is removed from us (doubt, fear, confusing etc) and God is now welcomed to be God.
It is very possible that we can feel one way and listen to
our spirit inside of us to do right despite our “emotion”. We will suffer and there
is no way around that but we can choose different in our crazy emotions. What
we need to understand is that through the hardship we face God is already working
behind the scenes to bring forth something good in and through us but we cannot
lose hope. We cannot lose our peace. We cannot lose our joy. We cannot get
tired of thinking well and responding with faith or we block Jesus from working. We need to stand steadfast and trust God through it and talk back to our
emotion and say “I will not stress, God is in control”, “I am not lonely, Jesus loves me”, “I will nor fear, that is not of the Lord", “I will not be anxious, God has me in the palm of his hand”. When you start to speak victory and faith situations change and we do as well. This takes practice.
Remember like the
word of God says in 1 Peter 5:8, "the enemy, the devil prowls around like a lion looking for someone to devour".
Sisters, he is ready to pounce on you. The enemy thinks he is smart when in
actuality he really is not. We give him to much glory. The enemy forgets that we have authority over his
tactics. But if we handle life with how we “feel” he will play and toy with
our weak state and flesh. Soon we will work our self into a frenzy and loose our
power over him. He will win in your thought life and you will respond not like the bold Christian you are. We cannot believe all the lies that he whispers in our ears and we can no longer give him glory with our emotions.
Sisters, we must be more than how we "feel". We can push pass
emotions and choose to speak life, not death. We
can respond with grace, not stubbornness. We can hope not be in despair with anxiety.
We can sleep in total peace because God is with us and he will provide. We can love and serve
instead of whining and complaining. Let’s grow. Let’s be more. Let’s not waver
today. Let’s let peace, love, joy and courage be at the center of what we
think, feel and do…..
In Christ, Monique Smith
