Feelings

Feelings...

When you're feeling good, you can't imagine life being any better. But when you're feeling bad, it's like the world is caving in on you.

Feelings are like waves - they come out of nowhere, crash into us and leave us scrambling until the next one comes rolling in.

Are you in control of your feelings or are your feelings in control of you?

One thing for sure, you are more than what you feel. Your feelings don't define who you are...

Just because you feel a certain way doesn't mean you have to bow down to those feelings. It's impossible to enjoy life the way God wants you to when you're prisoner of your feelings. God gave us feelings not to get rid of it and live like a robot. Instead, God wants us to enjoy them and find freedom to manage them instead of them managing and leading you.

That's why we need to anchor ourselves to Words of God because it allows us to know and trust God more than we trust our feelings.

* Summary from Joyce Meyer's Enjoying Life September bulletin