Emotions
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
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 is my hope you are encouraged and feel afresh how deeply you’re loved by the Lord as we focus in on this truth.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 33:21, and today's worship is God of Peace by Nikki Moltz.
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We just launched Vol. 7 of our First15 Devotional Series, Trust. And I couldn’t be more excited!
Trust is one of the devotional books I’ve been most anticipating, because of how critical trust is to our ability to thrive in and out of life’s difficult seasons.
This year has been arguably the hardest year we’ve faced globally in a generation. The pandemic has quickly taken its toll in every corner of our society, and every corner of the human heart. And the effects of systematic racism, and our lack of true racial reconciliation across the U.S. and beyond has brought us face to face with the mountain of division we’ve yet to overcome.
Personally, when life is good I find it easy to trust God, to be grateful for the ways he’s providing for me. But when my circumstances get hard, I find myself taking my life back in my control, and suffering as a result.
In Scripture, so many of God’s promises of peace, of provision, of safety are linked to our trust. Trust is like the “yes” that empowers God to move in deeper and more profound ways in and through us.
So I want to sincerely encourage you to get Trust today, to immerse yourself in this 5-week guide that will help you genuinely and wholeheartedly trust God. Because when you give God your trust, you’ll find an abundant peace and life that can carry you with unshakable joy through even life’s hardest challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we'll explore how emotional health and trust are linked. We're all emotional |
| 0:09.8 | beings and how we're doing emotionally affects us all on a regular basis. God has |
| 0:15.2 | something to say about your emotional health and it's my hope. You're encouraged and |
| 0:20.3 | feel afresh how deeply you're loved by the Lord as we focus in on this truth. Welcome |
| 0:26.8 | to the first 15 podcast. Do you know that God cares deeply about your emotions? Your |
| 0:34.0 | Heavenly Father longs for your life to be marked by emotional joy, fulfillment, satisfaction |
| 0:40.4 | and peace. He longs for your emotions to be rooted and grounded in his steadfast love |
| 0:46.2 | and goodness. Our God is an emotional God. He's not void of feelings. We feel because |
| 0:53.3 | he feels we have emotions because we are made in his image. For much of my Christian life, |
| 0:59.2 | I thought my emotions had to be based on my circumstances. I felt happy or sad based |
| 1:05.3 | on others' opinions, the pressures of life, and opportunities I had or didn't have. |
| 1:11.5 | As a result, I was on a consistent emotional roller coaster following the ups and downs |
| 1:17.4 | of the shaky world. I found myself controlled by the things of the world rather than the |
| 1:22.3 | foundational love laid before me by the sacrificial love of Jesus. Scripture continually describes |
| 1:30.4 | a link between emotional health and trust. Isaiah 26, 3 and 4 says, you keep him in perfect |
| 1:37.8 | peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever |
| 1:44.4 | for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. Psalm 56, 3 and 4 says, when I am afraid, I put |
| 1:51.4 | my trust in you. In God whose word I praise. In God I trust, I shall not be afraid. What |
| 1:58.4 | can flesh do to me? And Psalm 33, 21 says, for our heart is glad in him because we trust |
| 2:05.8 | in his holy name. We are robbed of having our emotions rooted in God whenever we take |
| 2:11.8 | on more pressure than we are meant to carry. Our emotional health is directly linked to |
| 2:18.1 | our level of trust. We feel pressure at work when we look to our job and co-workers for |
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