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damn cant wait for next thurs to come....

an escape fr all mundaneness.

and the overchging of emotions and fight against self.

battle of the mind it is. whichever circumstances, actually a light-hearted attitude is all I need.

sometimes I wish im made differently and the direct opposite of who I am.

maybe it'll be easier. maybe..

Oh, how we so need to learn...

Master Your Moods

By Rick Warren — Jan 20, 2015

"Your attitude should be the kind that was shown us by Jesus Christ." (Philippians 2:5 TLB) If you want to succeed in life, you must learn how to master your moods. When you have emotion that isn't getting you where you want to go, you've got two options: You either change it, or you channel it. Sometimes you need to change what you're feeling. Some emotions are so destructive, so damaging, so hurtful, so non-effective, the only thing you can do is change it. You've got to change what you're feeling. Philippians 2:5 says, "Your attitude should be the kind that was shown us by Jesus Christ" (TLB). Your attitude includes your emotions, so what you're feeling should be the same as that of Jesus. You need to ask yourself, "How would Jesus feel in this situation? Would Jesus get irritated with this waitress? No. Would Jesus yell at that person? No. Would Jesus be up all night, wringing his hands and worrying that it isn't going to work out? No. Would Jesus be fearful? No." Then, you instantly dismiss any feeling that doesn't make you more like Jesus. If Jesus wouldn't respond to your wife with that emotion, then you shouldn't, either. You drop that attitude, and you figure out what Jesus would do instead. Sometimes you need to channel what you're feeling. When my son, Matthew, died, I entered into the deepest possible grief you can imagine. But my wife and I decided from the first moment that we were going to channel that grief for good and use our pain to help other people. That's one of the reasons we host the annual conference on mental illness at Saddleback Church. I'm not about to waste a hurt I go through. I'm going to use it for good. Your greatest ministry will not come out of your strengths and successes. Your greatest ministry could come out of your deepest pain. What pain in your life are you using for good? If you have been in so much pain you didn't even want to talk about it, then you need to learn to manage your emotions. You need to name the emotion, challenge it, and channel it if you're not going to change it. Then, you use it for good. PLAY today's audio teaching from Pastor Rick>> Talk It Over Why do you think it's sometimes easier to feel the emotions we want to feel instead of what we know Jesus would feel in that setting? What do you need to do to give yourself time to ask these questions in any situation? What pain in your life can you use to help other people?

Truth is.. God always challenges us to get out of our comfort zone which is contradicting to how we feel.

How to Deal with What You Feel
by Rick Warren

"To be controlled by human nature results in death; to be controlled by the Spirit results in life and peace. Those who obey their human nature cannot please God." (Romans 8:6, 8 TEV)

Learning to manage your emotions is the key to peace of mind.

I want to share with you four important reasons from God's Word why you need to learn to deal with what you feel.

1. You need to learn to manage your emotions because they are often unreliable. Your gut is often wrong. Your intuition is often flawed. Your emotions often lead you down a blind alley. You can't depend on everything you feel! Proverbs 14:12 says, "There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death" (NIV). You don't have to accept everything you feel, because not everything you feel is right or authentic or will lead you in the right direction.
2. You need to learn to manage your emotions because you don't want to be manipulated. If you don't control your emotions, they will control you, and you will be manipulated by your moods. And, if you're always guided by your feelings, other people are going to take advantage of you. Worst of all, Satan's favorite tool is negative emotions. He will use fear, resentment, and worry to wreak havoc in your life. The Bible says in 1 Peter 5:8, "Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."
3. You need to learn to manage your emotions because you want to please God. God cannot rule your life if emotions rule your life. If you make your decisions based on how you feel, then you've made your feelings god, and then God can't be God in your life. Romans 8:6 and 8 says, "To be controlled by human nature results in death; to be controlled by the Spirit results in life and peace. Those who obey their human nature cannot please God" (TEV).
4. You need to learn to manage your emotions because you want to succeed in life. Study after study has shown that your emotional quotient is far more important than your IQ when it comes to success. How many people do you know who ruined their reputation because of something said in anger? Or missed a job opportunity because of their lack of self-control?

The Bible says in Proverbs 5:23, "[People] get lost and die because of their foolishness and lack of self-control" (CEV).

When you give your heart to Jesus, that includes your emotions. So when you say, "I gave my heart to Jesus," you gave your emotions to him to be managed by him. Jesus wants to be Lord of how you feel, not just what you think and do. He wants to be Lord of your emotions.

"From now on, then, you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires" (1 Peter 4:2 TEV).

PLAY today's audio teaching from Pastor Rick >>

Talk It Over

• Do you base your decisions on your feelings? How do you know if a "feeling" is right or wrong?
• Why do you think it's important to learn to listen to the Holy Spirit? How do you do that?
• What about your emotions do you need to surrender to God today?

Three Questions to Manage Your Emotions

By Rick Warren — January 19, 2015

"From now on, then, you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires." (1 Peter 4:2 TEV)

The Bible says in 1 Peter 4:2, "From now on, then, you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires" (TEV).

What are human desires? It's your emotions and your affections. Now that you are a Christ-follower, your life should be controlled by God's will, not by how you feel.

Let me give you three questions to ask about your emotions when you're trying to figure out how to deal with how you feel. When you're angry or upset or frustrated — whatever you're feeling — ask these three questions:

1. "What's the real reason I'm feeling this?" Maybe the answer is fear or worry. Maybe it relates to something your dad said to you years ago, and when your husband said it to you, he got all the anger against your dad that you pent up.
2. "Is it true?" Is what you're feeling at that moment true? There's a point in the Bible where Elijah gets so discouraged that he went to God and complained, "God, I'm the only one in the entire nation of Israel left serving you." And God challenged him, saying, "Are you kidding me? I've got all these people who are still serving me! You're acting like you're the only one trying to do the right thing in the whole world! No. That's not true."
3. "Is what I'm feeling helping me or hurting me?" Will you get what you want by continuing to feel this way? A lot of feelings we have feel natural, but they're actually self-defeating.

Let's say you go to a restaurant, and the service is extremely slow. You wait a long time to be served, and then a couple comes in 15 minutes after you and gets their meal before you do. You get increasingly more irritated until you feel something welling up inside you.

What's the real reason you're feeling that way? You're hungry!

Is it true? Yes. You're frustrated because the service is slow. But is your emotion helping or hurting? Do you get better service by getting angry at the server? Absolutely not.

Does nagging work? Has it ever worked? When somebody tells you all the things you're doing wrong, does it make you want to change? No! All it does is make you defensive.

When you ask yourself these three questions, you get a better grip on why you feel the way you do and what you need to do to help the situation.

That's called managing your emotions.

Talk It Over

• Why do you think it's hard to sometimes admit that the emotion we think we feel isn't actually true?
• Think of a recent experience where you felt angry or frustrated with someone. How do you think asking these three questions would have changed the outcome of the incident?
• What do you think it means to be controlled by God's will?

Still trying to let go of pride which takes control of my emotions and ultimately, actions. It is only making things difficult for myself in the end. How Lord, do I let go completely and come to You with my new self?

Only by the blood of Jesus who said it is FINISHED. No more works and self-effort.... communion with the Holy Spirit to lead every step ahead, even in my most relaxed and vulnerable mode. Talk to me oh Lord, let me hear Your still voice each moment i'm breathing Your life in me.

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Quite an awful start of the new year. Pukey hangover aside.. body is still plain wierd. From hot to cold.. Full to what seems like hunger the next. Once again confirms that I still like my ny eve sleeping early at home.. or home parties with limited booze n all of warmth from closed ones. That's my ideal.

Looking back.. A very turbulent 2014. All seems good fr the outside.. lots achieved with many thanksgiving to God.. maybe emotional roller coaster are a part of me and will nver leave. Maybe it's God way of dealing with me.. The innermost trait that I need to get rid of. Lots of pain..tears..and heartaches.. all for the sake of learning and growing stronger in Him.

Some friendships are still warm when u tink abt them. Tats enough for me now. Life is abt letting go and embracing just the memories..didnt they say only memories are forever? ;)