Changing Your Emotions

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The Bible says people are made of three parts: body, spirit, and soul. Your soul is your heart, mind, and conscience.

Jesus said when you confess and trust that He paid the price for your sins, and you turn from your sins to the best of your ability, He sends the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, to live in your spirit. Your spirit is made perfectly righteous, otherwise the Holy God of the universe couldn't live there!

The tricky part of this is that i don't FEEL perfectly righteous, because my soul is separate from my spirit. We need to move the power of the Holy Spirit from our spirit into our soul. We do that by faith, by recognizing that the Genesis 1 God, who created everything from nothing, actually lives inside of us...

When we feel anxious, we thank the Holy Spirit for the perfect peace already inside of us and ask Him to move peace into our heart. When we feel impatience, we thank Him for perfect patience already inside of us and ask Him to move patience from our spirit into our heart. We resist the feelings not of the spirit, and by faith draw on the very real power of God inside of us...peace, patience, love, joy, kindness, gentleness, self-control, faith, wisdom, all truth, the deep things of God, Godly counsel, wisdom to go "to the left or right"...all these things are completely residing in the redeemed people of God through the Holy Spirit.

I heard someone say that it is like a homeless man living under a bridge. He has nowhere to live and nothing to eat. One day, a distant relative passes away and leaves a million dollars to the homeless man. An attorney finds the man and gives him a checkbook to his new account which holds his wealth.

The homeless man has never had any wealth, and doesn't believe a check, or just writing a number on a piece of paper will actually get him what he needs...so he never writes any checks. He continues to live in poverty, because he won't just take a little time to figure out how to write and cash checks.

If I believe the Bible is true, then the God who created everything lives within me if I have given my life to Jesus...

The most powerful One in the universe is inside me just waiting to hear what I need and would like. He won't force me to ask for anything, but longs to show me how to draw on His wealth. It would be a shame for me to live in spiritual poverty when I am spiritually wealthy beyond measure!

1 Thessalonians 5:23 May the God who gives us peace make you holy in every way and keep your whole being—spirit, soul, and body—free from every fault at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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