Ep. 290 - How to Conquer Your Feelings

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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It's crucial to discern emotions through the foundation of God's word rather than letting feelings dictate actions. The guys encourage Christians to renew their minds with God's truth, letting the reality of eternity motivate their actions. As a new believer, introspection becomes an essential action. Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar talk about the difference between unbelievers, who ride their feelings like a wave, and believers, who have a foundation with which to discern their emotions. Emo...

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0:00.0	things. You know, easy, you bring up a really good point there, right? We do not go by feelings.
0:05.6	For somebody to say, I no longer love that person. They're saying that they are no longer
0:10.7	choosing to unconditionally and
0:13.2	sacrifices serve that individual.
0:16.6	And that's the way we are to love our spouses and really love each other, right?
0:21.4	Love is not a feeling.
0:22.4	It is a verb. It is an action. I am committed to you even if you're never
0:27.5	committed to me. And this is the way we approach the word of God, right? Our feelings are so fickle. If I would have went by my
0:33.8	feelings, I would have married 16 people before I met my wife. But no, I wanted to
0:38.1	wait for my actual wife. Run your race as hard and as fast as you can towards the Lord and when you're ready to get married, look around to see who kept up with you and marry that individual.
0:48.0	Martin Luther said, don't allow your feelings to preach to you.
0:52.0	Because our feelings are always preaching to you.
0:53.0	Because our feelings are always preaching to us.
0:54.8	We need to have a louder voice, right?
0:57.0	The sirens are always shouting and calling out to us and singing to us from those crashing
1:01.8	rocks. And if we set ourselves on the solid rock of God's
1:06.3	word well then we're not going to be led astray. Nancy Wilson worded it like
1:10.4	this anytime our emotions drive the car, we soon end up in a ditch.
1:17.0	For many, many years, friends, I have been in the business of saving souls, but today I have
1:30.5	added a new saving profile to my saving resume. I am now into saving cameras.
1:42.0	That's right, friends.
1:43.0	Did you guys see the saving of the camera that I did earlier in the video today?
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