Title: 5 Ways to Manage Your Emotions - Christian Counseling
Headings: 5 Ways to Manage Your Emotions
5 Ways to Manage Your Emotions
This is what it’s like when we don’t manage our emotions. Gripped with fear, waiting for it to pass then surveying the damage done.
What are emotions?
Emotions Affect Our Body
Purpose of Emotions
I can’t control how I feel…
“For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-control.” ~ 2nd Timothy 1:7
What drives the strong emotions?
“Above all else guard your heart, everything you do flows from it.” ~Proverbs 4:23
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” ~Matthew 6:2
So what does this have to do with managing emotions?
5 Steps to Managing Your Emotions
“You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” ~Ephesians 4:22-24
1.Put off a wrong view of emotions.
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind,” ~Jeremiah 17:9-10A
2.Put on a right view of emotions.
3.Going deeper with journaling.
“The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.” ~Proverbs 20:5
4.You are equipped with everything you need for a Godly life.
“His divine power has given us everything we need for a Godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.” ~2 Peter 1:3
Prayer
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have what we asked of him.” ~1 John 5:14-15
Bible study
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is- His good, pleasing and perfect will.” ~Romans 12:2
5.Let go of “now” thinking.
“My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry…” ~James 1:19
Managing Your Emotions: Wrap-up
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Content: Even our physical well-being can be affected due to the power of emotions. Worry can lead to ulcers. Stress leads to high blood pressure. Sleeplessness, weight fluctuations and headaches can all be the byproduct of our emotions. Purpose of Emotions
We serve a purposeful God. Nothing in God’s economy is wasted and that includes emotions. I would love to delete sadness, anger and frustration and keep joy, love and hope! However it’s the negative emotions that bring out the pleasure of positive emotions… Also, God uses our emotions to reveal our hearts. Emotions drive us to the cross whether we’re singing out praise or overwhelmed by sorrow. I can’t control how I feel…
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