FEELINGS AREN’T FACTS: HOW TO LET FAITH LEAD YOUR LIFE

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Transformed Podcast Episode 120 | April 24, 2025 Do you feel ruled by your emotions? What does the Bible say about walking in truth when your heart is heavy? Dr. Greg Gifford explains how Scripture equips us to respond to negative feelings with faith. Discover four powerful passages that will transform your view of sadness, anger, and spiritual discouragement—and help you counsel yourself in truth. – Preorder the new book, Lies My Therapist Told Me, by Fortis Institute Fellow Dr. Greg Gifford now! https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/liesmytherapisttoldme – Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0	What is?
0:01.2	What is?
0:01.5	What is?
0:02.0	What is biblical counseling?
0:03.9	Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.
0:07.7	I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.
0:10.5	God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.
0:14.8	God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.
0:19.9	The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word. This is
0:24.4	Transform. And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's
0:30.1	University and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford.
0:40.3	And today I want to share my favorite counseling verses on the role of feelings.
0:45.6	Last week, I shared counseling verses that I use all the time when talking about anxiety.
0:50.9	And just practically speaking, I make it sound like some of those are counseling and
0:55.4	exclusively counseling, but I hope I made it clear in the episode that I self-counsel
0:59.8	with Psalm 131 all the time. So if you don't have an arsenal of verses, these two episodes
1:06.5	are intended to help you develop that arsenal averses.
1:12.2	So today is really about feelings.
1:14.0	It was really appropriate because as I was getting ready for today's episode,
1:17.7	it's like dreary outside, cloudy.
1:21.6	I'm waking up in the dark and I was like, ugh, you know,
1:25.3	what a sleepy, somewhat discouraging morning.
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