Emotions: Under New Management

1. It is proven that certain emotions can trigger

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   from our mind and body.

2. Websters describes

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   as a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.

3. There are also

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   feelings (I’ll call it spiritual discernment) as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge.

4. Three reasons why we need to learn how to manage our emotions:
   a) Many times, our emotions are

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   .
   b) It’s easy to be
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   when our emotions are out of control.
   c)
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   emotions such as fear, resentment, jealousy, and worry are some of Satan’s favorite tools to use against us.

5. Everyone needs to learn to

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   their emotions in a positive way that is helpful and not harmful.

6. Somehow, we’ve been taught that we should never let our emotions be

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   because we only relate them to negative circumstances.

7. The story of Joyce shows us that people are unable to have good spiritual and relational health beyond the level of their

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   health.

8. The

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   of God’s Word and love will drive out fear and help us to control our emotional difficulties.

9. With every negative problem, we have 3 possible responses:
   a) We can

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   it and hope it goes away.
   b) We can
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   problems to control us. (Like they did Joyce.)
   c) We can
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   the Holy Spirit to give us supernatural help for victory.

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    emotional problems helps them continue to “simmer” beneath the surface until they erupt and hurt others around us.

11. Included in the Statement of Faith embraced by the Westminster Evangelical Presbyterian Church, it says: “There is but one only living and true God who is…without body, parts or

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    .”

12. We fellowship with God with our

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    ; our
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    (mind, will, and emotion) is affected by our relationships with God and others, and we relate to our “physical environment” with our
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    .

13. Being forgiven and having the freedom to forgive others (and doing so) are

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    to emotional health and well-being.

14. Because of Jesus’ obedience, we can have a relationship with God, and look to the

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    as God’s answer to our emotional pain.

15. Having a thriving relationship with God will certainly cause us to

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    a wholesome, fruitful self-image.

16. God tells us that through our faith in Jesus Christ, we are sons and daughters of God, we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, we are considered God’s special possession, and we are

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    of future glory.