Day 03: Rising Past Our Emotions
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Devotional: 2 Timothy 1:7: "For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control."
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2 Timothy 1:7: "For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control." As humans, we have a wide range of emotions – happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and many others. On their own, these are not necessarily bad things; after all, God gave them to us for a reason. We simply have to learn to control our emotions, or else they can overcome our reasoning and lead us into decisions that do not glorify God. Thankfully, God gives us that self-control. He gives us the ability to rise past our emotions and do what He is calling us to do – we just need to ask.
Write down one of your emotions that you need to better with.
Examples: (Ignoring Anger, Sadness, and Fear; Holding bitterness and anger toward a person). Click the button below to download the Log Sheet if you havent done it yet.
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"Faith In Action" ((Make a Gratitude Jar or Box. Think about what you're grateful for. Think about everything in your life and choose what comes to mind as your gratitude. Write down on a slip of paper what you're grateful for and why.
Write "I'm thankful for ______ today because…" and fill it in as completely as possible. Keep it in your jar, or other special place. Seeing your gratitude jar with all your slips of gratitude in it is a great visual reminder of all the good things you have in your life when emotion get out of control.
It's those tiny little changes we do day in and day out that lead us to our biggest wins in our emotions. ))
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Philippians 4:19: "And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus."
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This week, we'll be transitioning into the idea of rising in it. This idea involves the difficult truth that more often than not, there are things that we can't change. Sometimes, there may not be a way out. But that doesn't mean that we can't soar. In fact, our darkest days can even strengthen our faith in God. It is in these moments that we learn to place all our hope in Christ.
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Last week we talked about what it truly means to "rise past" the things we face. We talked about how we must look beyond our present troubles and our past hurts in order to grow spiritually. Now we must dive deeper into how we can actually practice this in our own lives. After all, letting go of our burdens is far easier said than done. So how, then, should we approach them?
