Falling Out of Love with Your Feelings

[lilithb]

http://www.changinglives.org/articles_arch...ur_feelings.htmHave you ever felt angry, upset, worried, and made a bad decision, only to regret it later? Perhaps like me, you’ve said at one time or another, "This feeling just came over me." We have all had feelings come over us. It is time for us to come over them! It’s time to say, "Feelings, you are not ruling over me anymore! I’m ruling over you!"Most people in these last days are more in love with their feelings than they are in love with God. What does it mean to be in love with our feelings? The word love means to be attached to. When you are attached to something, you can't let go. It is a part of you. Siamese twins are attached. The truest meaning of love is to be attached to, to be inseparable from. God is in love with you, which means He has attached Himself to you. Romans 8 says, "Nothing shall separate us from the love of God." He has attached Himself to us – that's love.Too often we have attached ourselves to how we feel and we cannot separate our feelings from the choices that determine the outcome of our lives. Since our feelings will often mislead us, since they will betray us, since they will not consider the consequences of their fulfillment, we must fall out of love with them.How do we do that? We must fall in love with something greater. We must fall in love with God. Whether you feel the love of God or not, to fall in love with Him, means to attach yourself to Him and to His Word. Psalm 119:165 says, "Those who love the Word of God will have great peace and will not stumble." Would you like to have great peace? Would you like to be free from stumbling? Then you must attach yourself to the Word of God. Instead of attaching yourself to feeling sorry for yourself, feeling like a victim, to feeling angry, you must attach yourself to what God says.I want to show you five things to attach yourself to that will detach you from your feelings. In this way, your feelings will not be able to destroy you. But first let me assure you that having feelings is not a sin. But if we attach ourselves to them, they can lead to sin.Instead, let us:First attach ourselves to Scripture. God said it, that settles it! Second, attach yourself to spiritual growth. Do something today to increase your spiritual muscle – pray, praise God, speak His Word, give something away. Third, attach yourself to correction. We all need to change. Do not misinterpret correction as rejection. We all need to make adjustments that will lead to greater progress in our lives with God. Fourth, attach yourself to the presence of God. We come into His presence by the blood of Jesus, not because we feel we’ve earned that right. Worship Him, speak to Him, listen to Him, and great joy will fill your life. Finally, attach yourself to the Body of Christ. This is how the anointing flows from the head down as David speaks of in Psalm 133. As you attach yourself to the anointing, it will remove burdens and destroy yokes in your life. How do you do that? By attaching yourself to a healthy church and a teaching ministry such as this one. The anointing that is in this ministry will come on you as you attach yourself to it through prayer and partnership. As you follow these steps, you will find yourself more in love with God than you ever have been before, and you will fall out of love with your feelings.Four Reasons You Can't Trust Your FeelingsOur feelings are always changing. Our feelings are not faithful to us. Our feelings don’t care about the consequences. Our feelings cause us to make bad decisions. The great Reformer Martin Luther wrote:Feelings come, and feelings go,And feelings are deceiving,My warrant is the Word of God,Naught else is worth believing!So detach yourself from your feelings, fall out of love with your feelings:Attach yourself to Scripture.Attach yourself to spiritual growth.Attach yourself to correction.Attach yourself to the presence of God.Attach yourself to the Body of Christ.

 

[stlizzy]

Good post. Thank you.All praise be to God!

 

[ForYou]

This is a great post

 

[His By Grace]

You are so right. Love isn't a feeling. It's a decision to do what's right or it can be said to "attach to the right thing" I guess. Since 1 Corinthians 13 tells us what God's love is like: being patient, kind, without jealousy, or envy,etc., we can gather that these are works that are from the Spirit attaching Himself to us to produce the works of Jesus. Thanks for the thoughts. They are helpful and needed in this day that we live in. There is too much "all about me" love or so some call it. We fail to really focus on Christ and try to imitate Him.

 

[Faithful]

It is the Spirit who is the only person who can keep us from the things of the flesh. We have already crucified the flesh in Christ our Lord. Faith shows in Christ we already have this victory and there is not other way but in truth and the Spirit that we can overcome the flesh/feelings.Galations confirms the only way is to live in Spirit through Christ our Lord.Faithful.Galatians 5 (King James Version) 1.Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 2.Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3.For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4.Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 5.For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6.For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. 7Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? 8.This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. 9.A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 10.I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. 11.And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. 12.I would they were even cut off which trouble you. 13.For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14.For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15.But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 16.This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17.For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18.But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19.Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20.Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21.Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22.But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24.And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25.If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26.Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

 

[Learning]

I thank all of you for the post and replies.

 

[tim_from_pa]

I once made a "wise" saying: Love is not a feeling, but a Being.Yes, I agree that feelings are fickle. I never trusted them because one day I may feel great, and the next as if my world is coming to an end. But love, for instance, is a decision. It's an act of will. If the feelings follow, then great. But don't depend on it.Feelings are part of our carnal nature, and as such cannot be trusted. But many people trust in their feelings for the same reason they are carnal in other things. Here today and gone tomorrow. What can I say?

 

[His By Grace]

It's a "no integrity" generation. And that's what is coming up behind us too. I really hate to see it. People, even Christians, look at me like I'm crazy when I talk about doing what's right in the little things. They will say things like,"It's no big deal," or my personal favorite, "Whatever,". My own children just don't get it. I hope they will see me imitate Christ enough and they will want to be like that. I know I do a poor job sometimes, but I hope I never, never, never give up!