Today we'll explore how emotional health and trust are linked.

We are all emotional beings and how we're doing emotionally affects us all on a regular basis.

God has something to say about your emotional health.

And it's my hope that you're encouraged and feel afresh how deeply you're loved by the Lord as we focus in on

this truth.

Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Our version Our verse for today comes from Psalm 33 verse 21.

Scripture says, for our heart is glad in him because we trust in his holy name.

Do you know that God cares deeply about your emotions? Your Heavenly Father longs for your life to be marked

by emotional joy, fulfillment, satisfaction, and peace. He longs for your emotions to be rooted and grounded in his

steadfast love and goodness. Our God is an emotional God. He's not void of feelings. We feel because he feels. We have emotions because we are made in his image.

For much of my Christian life, I thought my emotions had to be based on my circumstances. I felt happier sad based on others opinions the pressures of life and opportunities I had or didn't have and as a result I was on a constant emotional roller coaster following the ups and downs of this shaky world.

I found myself controlled by the things of the world rather than the foundation of love laid before me by the sacrificial love of Jesus.

Scripture continually describes a link between emotional health and trust.

Isaiah 26 through 4 says,

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you

because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting

rock. And Psalm 563 through 4 says, when I am afraid I put my trust in you. In God whose word I praise, in God I trust,

I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

And Psalm 3321 says,

for our heart is glad in him,

because we trust in his holy name.

We are robbed of having our emotions rooted in God whenever we take on more pressure than

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