This morning I had one of those "arresting" questions. An "arresting" question is one that makes you stop and think! This arresting question comes
from Amos 3:2-4:
Can two
walk together, unless they are agreed?"
This question arrested me because I was reviewing some past comments I've received from people in bondage to negative emotions:
- "I don't feel God loves me."
- "I don't have any self control."
- "I feel bad about myself."
- "I feel all
alone."
- "I feel as if there is no hope."
- "I feel unworthy of God's help."
- "I feel trapped in my habits."
I just published the book Psalm Therapy: Healing Negative Emotions God's Way this week and over 800 people have downloaded it so far. If
there is one takeaway I want you to have from the book, it is this:
Just because you feel an emotion does not mean the thought behind it is true!
Many negative emotions are based upon lying thoughts. Lying thoughts are those that do not agree with God's word.
Every lying thought that is in your mind must be "arrested" with the truth from God's word. Otherwise you are not in agreement and cannot walk with Him in that area!
That is why so many Christians are just as oppressed in their emotions and habits as
non-believers. This is not what God wants for His people. He wants us to be different.
But how can we share the freedom that we have in Jesus with lost people when we haven't fully experienced it ourselves?
However, we can start to experience it - starting today. It's time for a Holy Spirit turnaround!
I am going to shine the light of God's truth on those lying thoughts so we can watch them scatter like cockroaches!
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