Hello Precious One!
Feelings are not good indicators of Truth! Feelings are very subjective and change like
the weather. They are the response to
our own thinking, beliefs, and circumstances around us. Feelings are not a good measurement of
Spiritual activity. The Word of God
says that the love of God is always being into heart by the Holy Spirit,
without ever stopping, yet we don’t feel this Love often. The Word of God says that there is Rivers of
Living Water flowing into and through us, yet we often do not feel these Rivers
flowing inside of us.
Feelings are not a
gauge of Spiritual activity, the Word of God is the indicator of Truth, not
feelings. So many people, including
myself have been controlled by feelings and not by the Spirit. Feelings that are not under the control and
influence of the Spirit, lead to deeper into worldly and fleshy thinking and
behavior. Fallen man is controlled by
feelings for the most part.
Feelings are not
evil in and of themselves. They are
just reactions to the environment which we live. They mostly reflect our thought life and
belief system at the deep places of our heart.
Our belief system is a very deep and unsearchable! Every thought, emotion, attitude, motive, and
circumstance of our entire life is recorded in our heart.
“As the heavens are
high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.” Proverbs
25:3. “The heart is deceitful
above all things and beyond cure. Who
can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9.
This is an old covenant verse, but if a person does not recognize that
he has been given a new heart at salvation, he will live from his old
established deep beliefs from the past.
This is why many Christians are just as wounded and act no different
than the world.
The Holy Spirit is
the one who reveals the Truth of our new heart from God and His Love that is
continually being poured into our new heart.
“I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will
cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols
(strongholds). I will give you a new
heart and put a New Spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone
and give you a heart of flesh. And I
will put My Spirit in you…” Ezekiel 36: 25-27.
While this is 100%
Truth the second anyone gets born-again by the Spirit of God, our minds need to
be renewed to this Truth and the old attitudes of the heart need to be
transformed by the Holy Spirit. If we
don’t renew our minds and drink deeply of the Spirit, our feelings will be
controlled by our old thoughts and deep-seated beliefs, we see this all through
the church!
We need at deep work
of the Holy Spirit to reveal to our hearts the Truth of the new heart, so that
we will not live by the old thoughts and deeply held beliefs of the old man in
sin! Jesus removed our sin nature, yet
so much of the church is still trying to get rid of the sin nature! They don’t believe that they have the nature
and Life of Christ inside of them, or they belief they have two natures inside
of them, a virtual impossibility!
“As a man thinks in
his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7.
If the revelation of your new heart and being a new creation, and as
Jesus is, is not strong, then we will automatically live by the thoughts, beliefs
and feelings of the past, even though everything has been made new in the
Spirit in us! Feelings WILL change and
we WILL experience more and more of the Spiritual heavenly realm as our mind
gets renewed to the Truth! As we
behold, meditate, take hold and abide in the Truth of the Spirit, our feelings
will change and we will manifest more and more of the Truth of the Love of the
Father and all the Blessings of heaven!
“You were taught with
regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being
corrupted by its deceitful desires (and feelings); to be made new in the
attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self (“as Jesus is, so ARE we in
this world”), created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
Ephesians 4:22-24.
So we continually
put off the deceitful thoughts and feelings of the flesh and drink deeply and
heavily of the Spirit of the Truth, the River of joy-filled delights! “In His presence is the fullness of Joy and
Pleasures forevermore, at His right hand.” Psalms 16:11. The more we do this, the more our
feelings will become sanctified and they will be more and more consistent with
the Truth of the Spirit!
“So I say, live by
the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the (deceitful) flesh.”
Galatians 5:16. So the Word of God is
our indicator of Truth, not our feelings.
Feelings, most of the time will lead us astray if they are not controlled
by the Spirit! So we flood our new heart
with the Truth of the Love of the Father and our feelings will change! SHALOM!!!!!!!!!
Jerry Brown 8-6-2013
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