Your emotions are not infallible. In fact, you should not trust them. Don’t indulge self-pity, or doomsday thinking. Whatever you are going through is but a “season” and it will pass. Get beyond your emotional darkness. Stop listening to yourself, and start talking to yourself! Praise God with your lips. Listen to your favorite songs....
God is able to save all who come unto Him. “Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them” (Heb. 7:25). God is able to keep. “…For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to...
A series of successive losses can take more out of you than you realize. Even when you’ve hit an all-time low, you may not fully grasp how deep you’ve gone. Grief is a process—and it takes time to get through it. Death. Financial setbacks. Family breakdowns. Health scares. Fractured relationships. Any one of these can...
Stop talking about what you need to forget. If you want to get something out of your mind, begin by getting it out of your mouth. Don’t feed what you need to starve. Rehearsing the past keeps it alive. You can starve those memories through the law of replacement. Refuse to give an audience to...
Your emotions are not infallible. In fact, you should not trust them. So never give too much credence to your moods. Don’t indulge in self-pity, or doomsday thinking. Whatever you are going through is only a “season” and it will pass. You must get beyond your emotional swings. There are practical things you can do...
Bad feelings don’t come from bad circumstances, they come from bad thoughts. You can exercise some control over your feelings by controlling your thoughts. So the key to balanced emotions lies in focusing on the right thing/things. When you are going through the valley, it is difficult not to obsess on your problems. After the...