Hi, this is Phyllis Tarbox with Above & Beyond Christian counseling
and today I'm going to tell you why you cannot trust your emotions have you ever
said anything like I feel so overwhelmed or I am a Moute an emotional train wreck
or something like my emotions are driving me crazy
Did you know that you cannot trust your emotions because demons can manipulate
them let's face it we live in a world that emphasizes trusting and moving with
your feelings in fact I had a t-shirt in high school that said if it feels good
do it today the youth where things like Yolo bracelets that scream you only live
once this reliance on feelings and emotions
is a big lie from the pit of hell to move us in the wrong direction and today
I want to explain to you why we are made body soul and spirit our soul is our
mind our will and our emotions and we can see that we're made in this triune
being in first Thessalonians 5:23 when we accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and
Savior we became a we received a new spirit we became a new creation the Holy
Spirit came to live and dwell within us in the office we often joke about this
when we ask our clients when you receive the Holy Spirit did you get a new body
and of course they say no and then we ask them would you liked one and that
usually brings a giggle or two but it highlights the fact that we are a new
creation with the same body and the same soul we didn't get brand new emotions we
didn't get brand new memories but the good news is now we are candidates for
healing deliverance and sanctification the bottom line is we are not perfect
without Winkler spot yet the soul man can be a very vulnerable place
of torment that the enemy provokes so that he can use our past to control us
it tells us in Revelation 12 that Satan fell to earth with little time and great
fury we are to use very specific weapons against him the blood of the Lamb the
word of our testimony and that we the fact that we love our life not until
death you can have your soul because of the blood of Jesus that's incorruptible
but he can put thoughts in your mind to take your testimony they can't the
demonic Kingdom cannot read your mind so he throws those thoughts at you and I
like in that thought process that he does to a used car salesmen they keep
hitting you with lies after lies and hoping you'll bite on one of them and
you'll take that bait they work completely the opposite of God the Holy
Spirit will write his thoughts first on your heart and then your mind
he places desires in your heart that line up with his plans to prosper you
when you think about them they become your desires your hopes your dreams and
you know that they're from God when they produce fruits of love joy and peace
the demons however throw thoughts in your mind first and those thoughts sound
like this I'm not wanted here I'm unworthy
I am unloved then they sink into your heart and they open the door for spirits
of rejection isolation and abandonment to take root and you can tell who's
driving your emotions by the fruit they produce so let's face it our soul
definitely needs help and the Bible tells us it needs help the first thing I
noted was it tells us it needs renewing in Romans 12:2 it exhorts us not to be
conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of our mind
and that's our soul right so you may prove what is good and acceptable and
the perfect will of God so here's the good news if God says your
soul needs renewing then it can be renewed
did you know that your brain makes brand new neurons every day they're like
little empty chalkboards with nothing written on them yet so what you choose
to focus on and think about is what's going to be written on those little
chalkboards if you begin today centering your thoughts on the truth of God that's
found in his word your mind will be transformed a little bit every day the
second thing I noted was our thoughts need to be taken captive in second
Corinthians 10:5 it tells us to cast down arguments and every high thing that
exalts itself against the knowledge of God bringing every thought into
captivity to the obedience of Jesus Christ when those thoughts hit you you
need to take them captive by saturating your mind with the blood of Jesus and
proclaiming the truth so I want you to declare out loud when these thoughts
come I am a child of God I am redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ and I use
that blood to take these thoughts thoughts captive to the obedience of
Jesus the third thing I noted was your mind needs to meditate on good stuff
Philippians 4:8 says one final thing fix your thoughts on what is true honorable
and right pure lovely and admirable think about things that are excellent
and worthy of praise I tell my clients all the time you can think about what
you want to think about when those negative thoughts start bombing your
brain tell the devil you are in charge of your thoughts then dismiss what lies
he is tossing at you and focus on what you want to think about often when that
starts it generally starts right before I go to bed at night so I fixed my
thoughts on a picture that I like and that's me laying my head on Jesus's
chest it's very peaceful I like that picture and it's what I want to think
about generally when I can focus on that it makes the devil flee
now these are excellent things and excellent starting places for shipping
into a new season of making your soul a well-watered garden of love if you've
tried to win the battle of the mind in the past on your own and you still don't
have the victory then we are as close as your phone I hope this blessed you today
have a great week
you