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Emotions: Regret
Pastor Randy
Part of 2024

Emotions: Regret

  1. Webster’s defines regret as “

    aroused by circumstances beyond one’s control or power to repair.”

  2. Regret is sorrow or remorse over something in the past (over which we had little or no control), or something we

    that we cannot change or repair.

  3. We see that regret can come as a sense of

    over what has happened (or not happened), over missed opportunities, and wasted years.

  4. Regrets come when we make decisions without

    for the Holy Spirit’s directions.

  5. Regret causes people to

    themselves from others, by either minimizing and ignoring them, or telling themselves it was no big deal.

  6. We also

    our actions by comparing ourselves to others and saying, “Well, everyone does it, so it can’t be that bad.”

  7. Another way to deal with regrets is to simply put the blame and responsibility on

    !

  8. The opposite extreme is to

    on our regrets which gives the devil power to rule over and destroy us.

  9. Years ago, Rick Warren wrote in the Charisma News: “We try to pay for our guilt unconsciously through illness, depression, setting ourselves up for failure, and other forms of self-punishment. But the problem with beating ourselves up is that our conscience never knows when to stop! Some people spend their entire

    in self-condemnation!”

  10. We must realize that the “absence of pain” is the greatest

    to a leper, similar to regret because people who are incapable of feeling regret, are people who have nothing to cause them to change.

  11. Regret is a gift to our soul, just as pain is a gift to our flesh. However, regret is designed to serve only a

    purpose, because God does not want us to spend every day wallowing in it. Instead, He wants us to feel it, until we deal with it, by making corrections when possible.

  12. 3 steps in dealing with regret:
    a. We must be honest and recognize our regrets, and not discard or avoid them, nor try to distance ourselves from them. We must be real and

    them before we can be healed.
    b. We need to release our regrets to God and ask Him to and us. (1John1:9)
    c. We need to God to redeem our regrets.

  13. Good regret is a

    , bad regret is a .

  14. God does not regret our past; neither does He wish we could go back to change it. He looks at our past, and sees how He can redeem it, and use it for a future

    .

  15. God always takes what we can’t change about our past and uses it to change us and others. However, we have to

    Him to do so, which requires us to stop relying on .