Welcome back to the coffee and Bible Time podcast.

For those that may be listening for the first time, our podcast is an offshoot from our main platform YouTube.

Our channel is called Coffee and Bible Time,

where our goal is to help people delight in God's Word.

We also have a website and storefront with Bible studies,

beautiful heirloom quality prayer journals, and more.

I'm Mentor Mama, and today we are going to be talking about discovering the foundational

biblical truths we need to embrace in order to construct an emotional life that is healthy,

happy, and holy. So my question for you, audience, is how are you doing with your feelings? Do you tend to ride them

like a roller coaster? Or do you get stuck in the mud with one feeling or another for just way

too long? Or do you feel shame for battling your emotions? Well, there's good

news for those of us who love God and seek to follow his ways. You might be surprised to hear this,

but the Bible actually has a lot to say about our feelings.

It tells us which feelings are godly and good for us, and it even gives us ideas for how to encourage those feelings to grow.

The Bible also tells us which emotions we need to watch out for, which ones can hurt us if

they get out of control, and gives us ideas for how we can limit or avoid them.

The Bible can help us learn how to work on our feelings to take charge of them instead

of letting them push us around. God knows us best. In Psalm 139

verses 1 through 5 says, you are understood and known. You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise. You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out

and my lying down. You are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue, Lord, you know it

completely. You hem me in behind and before and you lay your hand upon me. Those verses are just so

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