God designed your emotions to be gauges, not guides. They’re meant to report to you, not dictate you. Let them tell you where the attack is being made so you can fight it with the right promises. They reveal what your heart loves, trusts, and fears. Pleasure is the measure of your treasure, because the emotion of pleasure is a gauge that tells you what you love.
Emotions are wired into our fallen natures as well as into our regenerated natures, sin and Satan have access to them and will use them to try and manipulate us to act faithlessly.
Emotions aren’t imperatives; they’re not your boss. They’re indicatives; they’re reports. That’s why Paul wrote, “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions” (Romans 6:12).
How emotions are formed
Emotions are formed as follows:
Interpretation + identification + repetition = strong emotion
Interpretation: When you interpret an event, or a thought based on your personal story. •
Identification: When you identify with a specific thought as it arises.
Repetition: It is having the same thoughts over and over.
Strong emotion: When you experience an emotion so many time that it has become part of your identity. You then experience that emotion whenever a related thought or events trigger it.
RESOURCE LINKS
ANGER--What Can I Do With My Anger?
ANGER- Be Angry but do not Sin. Worksheet
ANGER- MANIFISTATIONS OF ANGER (CHECKLIST)
FEAR- UNDERSTAND THE TYPES OF FEAR (CHART)
FEAR- EVIDENCES of FEAR (CHECKLIST)
Fear is a reality of the human experience. But how do we deal with fear biblically? Watch this video to help understand how important our view of God and belief in His character is when we address fear.