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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, friends, thanks so much for joining us today on
Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible Teaching ministry of Pastor
Rick Warren. We're so glad to have you with us.
And today Rick continues in his series called Transform Together,
We'll dive into God's word and discover powerful principles that
can truly change our lives from the inside out spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally, financially,
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and vocationally. You'll experience how God's truth brings real transformation
to every part of your life. All right, well, here's
Rick with the final part of a message called how
to Deal with how you Feel.
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You've got to name it. Here's what I'm feeling, and
here's the trigger. And then you've got to challenge it.
What's the real reason I feel this way? Is it true?
Is it helping me? Or is it hurting me? And
then the third thing got to do is you've got
to tame it or change it. You've got to change it.
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You've got to make the change in the emotion that
you want to make when you have that unwanted emotion. Now,
as I said, last week, we talked about managing your mind.
This week we're talking about managing your heart. If you
want to succeed in life, you must learn how to
master your moods. And when you have a mood, when
you have an emotion that isn't getting you where you
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want to get, you got two options. You either change
it or you channel it. Change it or channel it.
Let me talk to you about both of these things.
Some emotions are so destructive, so damaging, so hurtful, so
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non effective. The only attitude only thing you can do
is just change it. You got to change what you're feeling.
Philippians two five says this, Your attitude should be the
same as that of Christ Jesus. So your attitude that
includes your emotions, what you're feeling, should be the same
as that of Jesus. So you ask yourself, how would
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Jesus feel in the situation. Would Jesus get irritated with
this waitress No? Would Jesus be yelling at the person no.
Would Jesus be giving up, wringing his hands and worrying
that it isn't all going to work out no. Would
Jesus be fearful no? Would Jesus be worried No. So
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the bottom line on this one is I instantly dismiss
any feeling that doesn't make me more like Jesus. Your
attitude should be the same as Jesus. So if I'm
feeling an emotion, I've identified it, and I go, would
Jesus have this emotion? No, then that's not the way
I should be responding to my wife right now, because
Jesus wouldn't respond that way. So I instantly dismiss any feeling.
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Jesus would not be prideful, Jesus would not be envious,
Jesus would not be bitter, Jesus would not be enraged.
I would instantly drop that attitude. But sometimes you can
even take a negative emotion that you're feeling and rather
than change it, you channel it. You channel it. What
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does that mean you use it for good? For instance,
let's say you have been the victim of injustice. You
have experienced prejudice, maybe racial profiling, you have experienced unfairness
in the classroom, unfairness because you're a man or a woman,
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or a different color from somebody else or whatever. But
you've had something unfair in your life and you naturally
the emotion's going to come up in you is anger.
That's a legitimate response, is my anger going to get
me what I want? Probably not? But can my anger
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be used for good to help other people?
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Yes?
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And all of a sudden you become a champion for
justice because you know what it means to have experienced injustice.
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Does that make sense?
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And so you take a negative emotion anger, And when
you use your anger for your benefit, that's selfish anger,
that's a sin. When you use your anger for the
benefit of other people, that's righteous anger. See, anger is
not a sin. The Bible says in scripture, be angry
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and sin not. It's what you do with that anger,
and it's the reason you're angry that makes either sin
or not. You can get angry. If somebody hurt my
wife and kids, I'd get angry. I would because anger
is sometimes an evidence of love. You never get angry
about anything. It means you're apathetic. It means you have
no love in your life. Because if you love something
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or someone and somebody hurts them, you're going to get angry.
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That's the natural thing.
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Love gets angry. God gets angry. The only reason you
have the ability to get angry, because God gets angry.
God gets angry at sin. God gets angry to evil.
God gets angry when women are raped. God gets angry
when children are molested. God gets angry when people are
abused and misused and injustice. And so you could take
a negative emotion and you can use it in a
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positive way.
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Let me give you another example. Many of you.
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Have wanted to be married and it just didn't happen,
and your love has been blocked to date. Some of
you are married and you've wanted to have children and
it hasn't happened.
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And your love has been blocked to date. What do
you do with a blocked love? Do you pull.
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Yourself back into a prison, lock the door, pull up
the drawbridge, fill the moat with alligators, and say I'm
never going to let anybody hurt me again. No, what
do you do? What do you do with a blocked love?
You rechannel it. Maybe you didn't get to love the
person you wanted to love, but the world is full
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of people who need your love. Maybe you didn't get
to have the children you wanted to have, but there's
one hundred and thirty seven million orphans in the world,
and there are children on your street who need your love.
You rechannel a blocked love. You use it for good.
You don't stew in your hurt, you use it for good.
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If you don't change the emotion, you channel the emotion
and you use it for good. When Matthew died, I
entered into the most deep possible grief you could imagine.
I'm still not out of it, and I cry every
day for the death of my son and the loss
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of his life. But I decided from the first moment
that I was going to channel that grief for good
and that I would use my pain to help other people.
And CA did too, and we have been doing it
because I'm not about to waste hurt. I'm not about
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to waste any pain that I go through. If I'm
going to have it, I'm going to use it for good.
What pain in your life are you using for good.
Maybe you have been in so much pain you didn't
even want to talk. Then you need to learn to
manage your emotions. You need to name it, you need
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to challenge it, and then you need to channel it.
If you're not going to change it and use it
for good, and God can use it in your life.
Your greatest ministry could come out of your deepest pain.
Your greatest ministry will not come out of your strength
and successes. You do your strength and successes, people just go, well,
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goodie for you, you're good at it. But if it comes
out of your pain, then it could help others. So
you change it or you channel it. Now, what about
those ones that need changing? How do you tame a
wild emotion?
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You got?
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You say, I am a worrier and I cannot stop worrying,
and I can't stop that.
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I just worry, worry, worry.
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Where I am a perfectionist and I can't stop it.
I just criticize and judge and pick and nag, and
I am lazy and I just tend to be laid.
I all these emotions in my mind. Fear, I'm a
fearful person. Anger, I'm a naturally angry person, and I
lose my temper either blow up or I clam up.
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And there are different kinds.
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Of uh, you know, there's the there's Mount Vesuvius, and
there's the mute, and there's.
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The martyr poor me.
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There's lots of ways, but it's a problem in your life.
How do you tame a wild emotion? Well, not by willpower.
Not by willpower. The Bible says this is Zachariah for six.
You will not succeed by your own strength or power,
but by my spirit, says the Lord Almighty Zacharia for six.
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You don't change an emotion by willpower. I'm going to
force this change emotion. It doesn't work that way, he says.
It's not by power, it's not by might, it's by
by spirit, says the Lord. Well, how does that happen?
How do you let the the Holy Spirit change an
emotion that's hurting you and hurting other people in your life.
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Let me give you two final suggestions. Two starter suggestions.
Number one, every day, ask God.
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To fill me with his spirit. Every single day.
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I don't get out of bed, my feet don't touch
the ground without me saying, Holy Spirit, fill me today.
I need your spirit in my life because it's not
by might nor by power, not willpower, but by my spirit.
I'm going to be able to manage my moods and
my emotions today. Galatians five twenty two and twenty three
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says this, when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he
will produce this kind of fruit in us love, joy, peace.
We could stop right there. I'll just take those three.
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My life be a whole lot better. If my life
is just filled with love, joys, and peace, wouldn't yours.
But there's nine of them here, nine fruit of the Spirit, Love, joy,
and peace, patience. Anybody need that one Kindness? You are
kind when the Holy Spirit fills your life. When you're
unkind there's no way the Holy Spirit is feeling your life.
The Holy Spirit does not motivate unkindness, Goodness, faithfulness, gentleness.
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You're gentle when you're filled with the Holy Spirit. You're
gentle with kids, you're gentle with your spouse, you're gentle
with your customers. And notice the last one, number nine
is what self control circle that self control comes from
God control. Self control comes from God control. The more
I let God control my mind and emotions, the more
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self control I have, I don't become a religious nut.
I become more self controlled.
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A lot of.
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People think if I let the Holy Spirit fail my life,
they're going to turn me into some not religious fanatic. No,
if you let the Holy Spirit fill your life, you
get more self control than you've ever had in your life.
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That's a good thing. Now.
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It says when the Holy Spirit controls are lived, he
fills you with this. When you're filled with love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness,
self control. That's a whole lot better than being filled
with anger, worry, feared, guilt, shame.
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A worry, and all these other things. So what about it?
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When you're put under pressure at work, at home, or
anywhere else, do you know what comes out of you?
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Whatever's inside you?
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And if you're filled with worry, fear, doubt, loneliness, envy, jealousy, bitterness, gossip,
when the world puts on pressure, you know what's going
to come out worry, fear, doubt.
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Anger, ego and all those things.
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But when you're filled with the spirit and the world
puts pressure on, you know what's going.
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To come out? Love, joy, peace, patience.
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If I take a bottle of shampoo and I squeeze
that bottle, what comes out shampoo? If I take a
tube of toothpaste and I squeeze it, what's come out?
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Toothpaste? Peanut, butter and time come out. Toothpaste comes out.
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Why Because whatever's in it comes out when it's under pressure.
That's true of your life. Whatever's in you comes out
when you're under pressure. And the more pressure you get.
If you see When I'm full of myself, almost anything
can tick me off. When I'm full of God, nothing
can tick me off. I'm filled with love and joy
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and peace. Doesn't matter what happens, I can handle it.
This is nothing. I can just handle anything. So whatever
is inside of you is going to come out. So
the first key to management of emotions is to be
filled with the spirit, so that you're full of love
and joy. It's like if you got a cup of coffee.
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And you shake it.
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Whatever's going to come out is what's in it. Be
filled with the spirit, and that's what's going to come
out in your emotions.
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Number two.
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The other thing to do not only every day ask
God to fill me with the spirit, but every day
ask God to help me manage my mouth.
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You knew I was going to get to this one.
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Every day I ask God to help me manage my mouth.
When I get it in the morning, I say, Lord,
put a guard on my mouth. Just zip it up.
Don't let me say stuff. The Bible says in the
multitude of words there is sin. Proverbs thirteen three says
this self control means controlling the tongue. Now, this is
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what the whole chapter in the Book of James is
about there's a whole chapter in the Book of James
on the power of your words and your tongue. And
it says, you know a giant horse, You could have
a rider on the horse weighs one fourth the way
to the horse.
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And yet it's controlling the horse.
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Why because there's a bit in the horse's mouth. And
when wherever the mouth goes, the horse is going.
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SAME's true with you.
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The Bible says that your tongue is like the rudder
on a big ship. Little tiny rudder can direct the
big ship in any direction. And the tongue is the
rudder of your life. What you say is where you're
gonna go. And you're not going to experience what God
wants you to have until you say what God wants
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you to say. So you say, Lord, help me to
manage my mouth. Now here's the last key. Write this down.
Make God's word my word. Make God's word my word.
In other words, begin to put the words of the
Bible into your mind. Memorize some verses. Write them down
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on little cards and memorize them right underline verse in
your Bible. Read the Bible every day, listen to the Bible.
Get the word of God, and you every day feed
yourself on the word of God, because then when his
word becomes your word, you're going to see miracles take.
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Place in your life.
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Psalm one nineteen eleven says this, I have hidden your
word in my heart. What's your heart, that's where your
emotions are. I've hidden your word in my heart that
I might not sin against you. So I'm nineteen fourteen.
May the words of my mouth and the meditations of
my heart be pleasing in your side of Lord. Notice
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the connection between your heart and your mouth. What's inside
your heart is going to come out of your mouth.
Jesus said, it's not what goes in you that makes
you unclean. It's what comes out of you that makes
you unclean. And my heart is revealed in my words.
So some of you what you need to says God,
I need a heart transplant. I've had a bitter heart.
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I've had a worried heart. I've had an angry heart.
I've had a lonely heart. I've had a prideful heart.
I've had an arrogant heart. God, I've had a jealous heart.
I've had an envious heart. I've had an impatient heart. God,
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I need a heart transplant. And when you say that
to God, and you say fill me with your spirit,
He'll put a new heart inside of you. And when
you get a new heart, you get new words, and
your words direct your life. Let's vow for prayer. Father,
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I thank you that you are an emotional God. I
thank you that you gave us the ability to feel,
that we're not robots, that we're not unfeeling, uncaring, that
we can experience both highs and lows in life. Help
us to avoid the extremes of emotionalism that all that
matters is how I feel, and stoicism of feeling that
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things aren't important, feelings aren't important at all.
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And thank you for the book.
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Of Psalms that show us that every emotion actually is
understood by you, and that you can give us the
power to change it or to channel it. Now you pray,
say Lord, I know that my feelings are often unreliable,
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and I don't want to build my life on feelings.
I want to build my life on your truth. I
don't want to be manipulated by other people, or by Satan,
or I don't want to be manipulated even by my
own old nature.
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But I want to be self controlled and alert.
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More than that, Lord, I want to please you, and
I want to do the things that please you. And
I want you to be the lord of my emotion emotions,
and I want to succeed in life by being controlled
by your will, not by my feelings. So help me
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to practice what I've just learned this week. When I
start to get upset or when I feel overwhelmed by
a very strong emotion, help me to name it. Help
me to figure out what am I really feeling, and
what's the trigger, what triggered me, and why am I
feeling this way. You've said in your word that wisdom
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gives a man patience. Help me to understand my emotions
and where they came from. And then, Lord, help me
to challenge my emotions, to not automatically accept them as
the gospel truth, but to ask is it true?
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And is it helpful?
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And is holding onto this emotion going to get me
the result I need? Help me to realize the real
reason that I feel what I'm feeling, and to challenge
my emotions and not just automatically accept them. And then
help me to change your channel what needs to be
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changed and channel what could be used for good. Dear God,
beginning right now, I'm asking you to fill me with
your Holy Spirit. I want my life to be filled
with love, not hate, with peace not chaos, with joy
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not sorrow, and with patience not impatience. Lord, I want
to be kind. Fill me with goodness, fill me with faith,
fill me with gentleness, fill me with self control. Help
me to develop the habit of asking you to fill
me moment by moment. And then, Lord, most of all,
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I ask you to help me to manage my mouth.
May I learn to put your words in my mouth
and to speak the word of truth. In your name,
I pray Amen.
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Wow.
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Some powerful words from Pastor Rick today. And now this
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Hey, friends, thanks so much for joining us today on
Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible Teaching ministry of Pastor
Rick Warren. We're so glad to have you with us.
And today Rick continues in his series called Transform Together,
We'll dive into God's word and discover powerful principles that
can truly change our lives from the inside out spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally, financially,
(00:31):
and vocationally. You'll experience how God's truth brings real transformation
to every part of your life. All right, well, here's
Rick with the final part of a message called how
to Deal with how you Feel.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You've got to name it. Here's what I'm feeling, and
here's the trigger. And then you've got to challenge it.
What's the real reason I feel this way? Is it true?
Is it helping me? Or is it hurting me? And
then the third thing got to do is you've got
to tame it or change it. You've got to change it.
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You've got to make the change in the emotion that
you want to make when you have that unwanted emotion. Now,
as I said, last week, we talked about managing your mind.
This week we're talking about managing your heart. If you
want to succeed in life, you must learn how to
master your moods. And when you have a mood, when
you have an emotion that isn't getting you where you
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want to get, you got two options. You either change
it or you channel it. Change it or channel it.
Let me talk to you about both of these things.
Some emotions are so destructive, so damaging, so hurtful, so
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non effective. The only attitude only thing you can do
is just change it. You got to change what you're feeling.
Philippians two five says this, Your attitude should be the
same as that of Christ Jesus. So your attitude that
includes your emotions, what you're feeling, should be the same
as that of Jesus. So you ask yourself, how would
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Jesus feel in the situation. Would Jesus get irritated with
this waitress No? Would Jesus be yelling at the person no.
Would Jesus be giving up, wringing his hands and worrying
that it isn't all going to work out no. Would
Jesus be fearful no? Would Jesus be worried No. So
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the bottom line on this one is I instantly dismiss
any feeling that doesn't make me more like Jesus. Your
attitude should be the same as Jesus. So if I'm
feeling an emotion, I've identified it, and I go, would
Jesus have this emotion? No, then that's not the way
I should be responding to my wife right now, because
Jesus wouldn't respond that way. So I instantly dismiss any feeling.
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Jesus would not be prideful, Jesus would not be envious,
Jesus would not be bitter, Jesus would not be enraged.
I would instantly drop that attitude. But sometimes you can
even take a negative emotion that you're feeling and rather
than change it, you channel it. You channel it. What
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does that mean you use it for good? For instance,
let's say you have been the victim of injustice. You
have experienced prejudice, maybe racial profiling, you have experienced unfairness
in the classroom, unfairness because you're a man or a woman,
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or a different color from somebody else or whatever. But
you've had something unfair in your life and you naturally
the emotion's going to come up in you is anger.
That's a legitimate response, is my anger going to get
me what I want? Probably not? But can my anger
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be used for good to help other people?
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Yes?
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And all of a sudden you become a champion for
justice because you know what it means to have experienced injustice.
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Does that make sense?
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And so you take a negative emotion anger, And when
you use your anger for your benefit, that's selfish anger,
that's a sin. When you use your anger for the
benefit of other people, that's righteous anger. See, anger is
not a sin. The Bible says in scripture, be angry
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and sin not. It's what you do with that anger,
and it's the reason you're angry that makes either sin
or not. You can get angry. If somebody hurt my
wife and kids, I'd get angry. I would because anger
is sometimes an evidence of love. You never get angry
about anything. It means you're apathetic. It means you have
no love in your life. Because if you love something
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or someone and somebody hurts them, you're going to get angry.
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That's the natural thing.
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Love gets angry. God gets angry. The only reason you
have the ability to get angry, because God gets angry.
God gets angry at sin. God gets angry to evil.
God gets angry when women are raped. God gets angry
when children are molested. God gets angry when people are
abused and misused and injustice. And so you could take
a negative emotion and you can use it in a
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positive way.
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Let me give you another example. Many of you.
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Have wanted to be married and it just didn't happen,
and your love has been blocked to date. Some of
you are married and you've wanted to have children and
it hasn't happened.
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And your love has been blocked to date. What do
you do with a blocked love? Do you pull.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yourself back into a prison, lock the door, pull up
the drawbridge, fill the moat with alligators, and say I'm
never going to let anybody hurt me again. No, what
do you do? What do you do with a blocked love?
You rechannel it. Maybe you didn't get to love the
person you wanted to love, but the world is full
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of people who need your love. Maybe you didn't get
to have the children you wanted to have, but there's
one hundred and thirty seven million orphans in the world,
and there are children on your street who need your love.
You rechannel a blocked love. You use it for good.
You don't stew in your hurt, you use it for good.
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If you don't change the emotion, you channel the emotion
and you use it for good. When Matthew died, I
entered into the most deep possible grief you could imagine.
I'm still not out of it, and I cry every
day for the death of my son and the loss
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of his life. But I decided from the first moment
that I was going to channel that grief for good
and that I would use my pain to help other people.
And CA did too, and we have been doing it
because I'm not about to waste hurt. I'm not about
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to waste any pain that I go through. If I'm
going to have it, I'm going to use it for good.
What pain in your life are you using for good.
Maybe you have been in so much pain you didn't
even want to talk. Then you need to learn to
manage your emotions. You need to name it, you need
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to challenge it, and then you need to channel it.
If you're not going to change it and use it
for good, and God can use it in your life.
Your greatest ministry could come out of your deepest pain.
Your greatest ministry will not come out of your strength
and successes. You do your strength and successes, people just go, well,
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goodie for you, you're good at it. But if it comes
out of your pain, then it could help others. So
you change it or you channel it. Now, what about
those ones that need changing? How do you tame a
wild emotion?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
You got?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You say, I am a worrier and I cannot stop worrying,
and I can't stop that.
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I just worry, worry, worry.
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Where I am a perfectionist and I can't stop it.
I just criticize and judge and pick and nag, and
I am lazy and I just tend to be laid.
I all these emotions in my mind. Fear, I'm a
fearful person. Anger, I'm a naturally angry person, and I
lose my temper either blow up or I clam up.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And there are different kinds.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Of uh, you know, there's the there's Mount Vesuvius, and
there's the mute, and there's.
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The martyr poor me.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
There's lots of ways, but it's a problem in your life.
How do you tame a wild emotion? Well, not by willpower.
Not by willpower. The Bible says this is Zachariah for six.
You will not succeed by your own strength or power,
but by my spirit, says the Lord Almighty Zacharia for six.
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You don't change an emotion by willpower. I'm going to
force this change emotion. It doesn't work that way, he says.
It's not by power, it's not by might, it's by
by spirit, says the Lord. Well, how does that happen?
How do you let the the Holy Spirit change an
emotion that's hurting you and hurting other people in your life.
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Let me give you two final suggestions. Two starter suggestions.
Number one, every day, ask God.
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To fill me with his spirit. Every single day.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I don't get out of bed, my feet don't touch
the ground without me saying, Holy Spirit, fill me today.
I need your spirit in my life because it's not
by might nor by power, not willpower, but by my spirit.
I'm going to be able to manage my moods and
my emotions today. Galatians five twenty two and twenty three
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says this, when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he
will produce this kind of fruit in us love, joy, peace.
We could stop right there. I'll just take those three.
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My life be a whole lot better. If my life
is just filled with love, joys, and peace, wouldn't yours.
But there's nine of them here, nine fruit of the Spirit, Love, joy,
and peace, patience. Anybody need that one Kindness? You are
kind when the Holy Spirit fills your life. When you're
unkind there's no way the Holy Spirit is feeling your life.
The Holy Spirit does not motivate unkindness, Goodness, faithfulness, gentleness.
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You're gentle when you're filled with the Holy Spirit. You're
gentle with kids, you're gentle with your spouse, you're gentle
with your customers. And notice the last one, number nine
is what self control circle that self control comes from
God control. Self control comes from God control. The more
I let God control my mind and emotions, the more
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self control I have, I don't become a religious nut.
I become more self controlled.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
A lot of.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
People think if I let the Holy Spirit fail my life,
they're going to turn me into some not religious fanatic. No,
if you let the Holy Spirit fill your life, you
get more self control than you've ever had in your life.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
That's a good thing. Now.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It says when the Holy Spirit controls are lived, he
fills you with this. When you're filled with love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness,
self control. That's a whole lot better than being filled
with anger, worry, feared, guilt, shame.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
A worry, and all these other things. So what about it?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
When you're put under pressure at work, at home, or
anywhere else, do you know what comes out of you?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Whatever's inside you?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
And if you're filled with worry, fear, doubt, loneliness, envy, jealousy, bitterness, gossip,
when the world puts on pressure, you know what's going
to come out worry, fear, doubt.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Anger, ego and all those things.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But when you're filled with the spirit and the world
puts pressure on, you know what's going.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
To come out? Love, joy, peace, patience.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
If I take a bottle of shampoo and I squeeze
that bottle, what comes out shampoo? If I take a
tube of toothpaste and I squeeze it, what's come out?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Toothpaste? Peanut, butter and time come out. Toothpaste comes out.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Why Because whatever's in it comes out when it's under pressure.
That's true of your life. Whatever's in you comes out
when you're under pressure. And the more pressure you get.
If you see When I'm full of myself, almost anything
can tick me off. When I'm full of God, nothing
can tick me off. I'm filled with love and joy
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and peace. Doesn't matter what happens, I can handle it.
This is nothing. I can just handle anything. So whatever
is inside of you is going to come out. So
the first key to management of emotions is to be
filled with the spirit, so that you're full of love
and joy. It's like if you got a cup of coffee.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
And you shake it.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Whatever's going to come out is what's in it. Be
filled with the spirit, and that's what's going to come
out in your emotions.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Number two.
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The other thing to do not only every day ask
God to fill me with the spirit, but every day
ask God to help me manage my mouth.
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You knew I was going to get to this one.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Every day I ask God to help me manage my mouth.
When I get it in the morning, I say, Lord,
put a guard on my mouth. Just zip it up.
Don't let me say stuff. The Bible says in the
multitude of words there is sin. Proverbs thirteen three says
this self control means controlling the tongue. Now, this is
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what the whole chapter in the Book of James is
about there's a whole chapter in the Book of James
on the power of your words and your tongue. And
it says, you know a giant horse, You could have
a rider on the horse weighs one fourth the way
to the horse.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
And yet it's controlling the horse.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Why because there's a bit in the horse's mouth. And
when wherever the mouth goes, the horse is going.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
SAME's true with you.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
The Bible says that your tongue is like the rudder
on a big ship. Little tiny rudder can direct the
big ship in any direction. And the tongue is the
rudder of your life. What you say is where you're
gonna go. And you're not going to experience what God
wants you to have until you say what God wants
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you to say. So you say, Lord, help me to
manage my mouth. Now here's the last key. Write this down.
Make God's word my word. Make God's word my word.
In other words, begin to put the words of the
Bible into your mind. Memorize some verses. Write them down
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on little cards and memorize them right underline verse in
your Bible. Read the Bible every day, listen to the Bible.
Get the word of God, and you every day feed
yourself on the word of God, because then when his
word becomes your word, you're going to see miracles take.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Place in your life.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Psalm one nineteen eleven says this, I have hidden your
word in my heart. What's your heart, that's where your
emotions are. I've hidden your word in my heart that
I might not sin against you. So I'm nineteen fourteen.
May the words of my mouth and the meditations of
my heart be pleasing in your side of Lord. Notice
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the connection between your heart and your mouth. What's inside
your heart is going to come out of your mouth.
Jesus said, it's not what goes in you that makes
you unclean. It's what comes out of you that makes
you unclean. And my heart is revealed in my words.
So some of you what you need to says God,
I need a heart transplant. I've had a bitter heart.
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I've had a worried heart. I've had an angry heart.
I've had a lonely heart. I've had a prideful heart.
I've had an arrogant heart. God, I've had a jealous heart.
I've had an envious heart. I've had an impatient heart. God,
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I need a heart transplant. And when you say that
to God, and you say fill me with your spirit,
He'll put a new heart inside of you. And when
you get a new heart, you get new words, and
your words direct your life. Let's vow for prayer. Father,
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I thank you that you are an emotional God. I
thank you that you gave us the ability to feel,
that we're not robots, that we're not unfeeling, uncaring, that
we can experience both highs and lows in life. Help
us to avoid the extremes of emotionalism that all that
matters is how I feel, and stoicism of feeling that
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things aren't important, feelings aren't important at all.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
And thank you for the book.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Of Psalms that show us that every emotion actually is
understood by you, and that you can give us the
power to change it or to channel it. Now you pray,
say Lord, I know that my feelings are often unreliable,
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and I don't want to build my life on feelings.
I want to build my life on your truth. I
don't want to be manipulated by other people, or by Satan,
or I don't want to be manipulated even by my
own old nature.
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But I want to be self controlled and alert.
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More than that, Lord, I want to please you, and
I want to do the things that please you. And
I want you to be the lord of my emotion emotions,
and I want to succeed in life by being controlled
by your will, not by my feelings. So help me
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to practice what I've just learned this week. When I
start to get upset or when I feel overwhelmed by
a very strong emotion, help me to name it. Help
me to figure out what am I really feeling, and
what's the trigger, what triggered me, and why am I
feeling this way. You've said in your word that wisdom
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gives a man patience. Help me to understand my emotions
and where they came from. And then, Lord, help me
to challenge my emotions, to not automatically accept them as
the gospel truth, but to ask is it true?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
And is it helpful?
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And is holding onto this emotion going to get me
the result I need? Help me to realize the real
reason that I feel what I'm feeling, and to challenge
my emotions and not just automatically accept them. And then
help me to change your channel what needs to be
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changed and channel what could be used for good. Dear God,
beginning right now, I'm asking you to fill me with
your Holy Spirit. I want my life to be filled
with love, not hate, with peace not chaos, with joy
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not sorrow, and with patience not impatience. Lord, I want
to be kind. Fill me with goodness, fill me with faith,
fill me with gentleness, fill me with self control. Help
me to develop the habit of asking you to fill
me moment by moment. And then, Lord, most of all,
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I ask you to help me to manage my mouth.
May I learn to put your words in my mouth
and to speak the word of truth. In your name,
I pray Amen.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Some powerful words from Pastor Rick today. And now this
is really one of my favorite parts of the broadcast.
This is letters from our listeners, and now here's Rick.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I want to take a minute and tell you how
important your support is to Daily Hope. Your generosity. When
you give to Daily Hope, you're helping us take the
message of Jesus Christ literally all around the world, in
the many places where there aren't missionaries or churches. These
are called unreached tribes. Now, I'm sure you're familiar with
the rector refugee crisis around the world. Literally millions of
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people have been displaced from their homes, particularly in the
Middle East and in North Africa because of civil wars
and violence. One of those places is South Sudan, where
over two hundred thousand people are living in refugee camps. Now,
when people are under tension and in transition, they are
more open to the Gospel than in any other time.
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These people who are living in refugee camps right now
need the hope of Jesus Christ and the Gospel. Now
when you help Daily Hope Radio and Daily Hope Broadcast,
We're not only broadcasting across America, but in places like
South Sudan where the station airs our program three times
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a day, and we are told that many many people
are coming to Christ in this war zone as they
listen to these Daily Hope broadcasts. So thanks, thanks to you. Now,
let me just read you one testimony that we've received.
Here's a note from a woman who's living in a
refugee camp there in South Sudan. She said, my name
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is Joyce and I'm from the Central Equatorial State in
South Sudan. I lost all five of my children and
my beloved husband. This is in the civil war that
was going on there, as well as our family possessions.
During the recent fighting in the capital of Juba, she said,
I had planned to commit suicide. There's somebody who needs hope.
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When I listened to Rick Warren's broadcast, the one called
when You Feel Like Giving Up, I got inspired and
I dropped the idea of taking my life that very night.
And I'll continue to pray God to bless this great
preacher and thank you for giving me hope. Joyce. We're
happy to do that, and I want to say it's
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because of the listeners who are giving faithfully every month
to Daily Hope. Do you realize that when you give
to Daily Hope, you're helping reach people like Joyce. She
was gonna commit suicide in a refugee camp. Now, isn't
God amazing How when you just give what you can give,
God takes it and he multiplies it and we reach
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out to people that none of us could reach on
our own. Here's what I want you to do. I
want you to pray for Joyce, and today I want
you to pray for all of the people who are
in refugee camps and pray that we'll be able to
continue to broadcast on these stations, taking the good news
of Jesus Christ and hope to people who need it
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the most desperately. It's your sacrificial giving, it's your prayer
support that makes this possible. So thank you for whatever
you can do, and God bless you, my friends.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You know when you give a gift to Daily Hope,
you're helping share the hope of Jesus with people everywhere,
and right now your gift will be doubled by the
fifty thousand dollars matching grand So please go to Pastorick
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Be sure to join us next time as we look
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