WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:07.080 This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry 2 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:10.800 of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue in a series 3 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:16.120 called Transform. In these lessons, Rick uncovers key principles found 4 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:17.199 in God's. 5 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:19.440 Word that will completely. 6 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:22.640 Transform our lives from the inside out in every area 7 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:30.839 including spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, relational, financial, and vocational. 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Right now, 17 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:05.159 here's Pastor Rick Warren with part three of a message 18 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:07.840 called how to deal with how You Feel? 19 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:12.400 The Bible says in so I'm twenty six to two, 20 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:18.959 Lord Cross, examine me, Test my motives and my affections. 21 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:22.000 What are your affections? There are your emotions? Test my 22 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:28.680 motives and my feelings? What I feel my affectations, my emotions. 23 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:32.760 So you ask God to help you evaluate it. But 24 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:36.359 let me give you another one that's even but more personal. 25 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:40.079 Get a friend to help you, and that is sometimes 26 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:43.560 it's best to have a friend who can challenge what 27 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:46.599 you're feeling. Now, you've got a pretty close friend to 28 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:49.599 do that. Have you given anybody in your life the 29 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:54.280 permission to challenge your feelings? Or does everybody just have 30 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:56.599 to be a yes man or yes woman to you 31 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.079 that if you feel a certain way, there's no. 32 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:03.599 Room for are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure? 33 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:08.759 That's a correct understanding? A true friend is somebody you 34 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:13.280 give permission to say are you sure about that? You 35 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:16.879 give them the ability to challenge your emotion and say, 36 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:19.159 you know, Rick, I don't think I don't think you're 37 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:21.479 thinking correctly right now. I don't think what you're feeling 38 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:25.879 is actually true. Job had a friend like that. His 39 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:30.639 name was Elfhaz, and in Job fifteen, verse twelve, Elifaz 40 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:36.800 asked Job, why has your heart carried you away? And 41 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:40.680 why do your eyes flash? Now that's a poetic way 42 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:43.080 of saying, how come you've run off the deep end? 43 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:45.879 And why do you get so angry? Do you have 44 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:48.840 anybody who could ask you that question and you wouldn't 45 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:51.439 get mad at them that you know they're doing it 46 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.400 out of love. You need partners in your life. You 47 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:56.080 need not only a small group that's a good place 48 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:58.560 to find them, but you need a spiritual partner, not 49 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:01.000 a lot, just one person who you've given the right 50 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:03.800 to challenge what you're feeling and saying, you know what, 51 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.599 I don't think you're thinking correctly, that's not right. Why 52 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:10.439 are you going off the deep end on this? And 53 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:13.039 why are you getting so angry about it? Give somebody 54 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:15.719 that permission. Now, let me give you three questions to 55 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:19.080 ask about your own emotions when you're trying to figure 56 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:21.800 out how to deal with how I feel. Okay, so 57 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:25.159 let's say you're going let's say you're angry, or you're upset, 58 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:30.719 or you're irritated, or you're frustrated, or you're depressed or whatever. 59 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:36.319 You ask three street questions. Number one, what's the real reason, 60 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:42.599 the real reason that I'm feeling this? And that goes 61 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:45.520 back to what we were talking earlier. You know, maybe 62 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:49.759 it's fear, maybe it's worry, Maybe it's hooked into something 63 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:51.240 that your dad said to you. 64 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:52.719 Years and years and years. 65 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:54.759 Ago, and when your husband said it to you, all 66 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:56.680 of a sudden, boy, he gets all the wrath that 67 00:03:56.759 --> 00:04:04.280 you'd pent up against your dad or vice versa. What's 68 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:08.120 the real reason I'm feeling this? Second question, ask yourself, 69 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:12.240 is it true? It's what I'm feeling right now? 70 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:14.639 True. 71 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:20.360 There's a point where Elijah in the Bible gets so down, discouraged, oppressed, 72 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:23.160 and he comes crying to God and he's complaining. He says, God, 73 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:26.439 I'm the only one in the entire nation of Israel 74 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:31.399 left serving you, and God challenges us, Are you kidding me? 75 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:34.759 I got all these people who still serve me. Why 76 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:37.000 are you asking acting like this? You're acting like you're 77 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:39.399 the only one trying to do the right thing in 78 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:43.720 the whole world. No, that's not true. So what's the 79 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:45.720 real reason I feel this way? And in that case, 80 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:48.959 he was tired, and is it true? In that case 81 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:52.879 it wasn't true. Then the third question, this is really important, 82 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:59.360 is what I'm feeling helping me or hurting me? Sometimes 83 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:02.079 this is the s simplest thing to changing an emotion 84 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:05.040 by simply saying, is what I'm feeling right now going 85 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:07.199 to help me? Get what I want to get or 86 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:09.639 is it actually going to hinder me getting for what 87 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.439 I get? In other words, well I get what I 88 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.000 want by continuing to feel this way. A lot of 89 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:20.319 feelings that we have feel natural, but they're actually they're 90 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:24.800 actually self defeating. For instance, let's say you go in 91 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:28.759 and you sit down at a restaurant and the service 92 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:29.639 is slow. 93 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:32.519 And I mean it's slow. 94 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:36.279 And you're waiting and you're waiting, and you're waiting and 95 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:40.000 waiting to be served, and then a couple comes in 96 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.079 like fifteen minutes after you and sits down and then 97 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:46.879 they get their meal before you do, and you look 98 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:49.199 at your wife, You're going, are you seeing this? 99 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:51.439 You watching this here? 100 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:54.680 And you're starting to get a little irritated, and all 101 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:57.720 of a sudden, you feel an emotion welling up inside 102 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:01.439 of you. Now you go, what's the real reason I'm 103 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:07.920 feeling this? I'm hungry? Okay, okay, is it true? 104 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:08.879 Yeah, it's true. 105 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:13.120 I'm frustrated because the service is slow here. So that 106 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:17.199 one is particularly true. But then is it helping or 107 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:17.920 is it hurting? 108 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:18.680 Okay? Question? 109 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:22.399 Do you get better service by getting angry at a waitress? 110 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:24.040 No? 111 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:28.240 Absolutely not, And so get it you know, it feels 112 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:30.519 good to get angry. It's like, how come this place? 113 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:33.800 Blah blah blah blah blah blah. You may feel better, 114 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:37.639 but you just got worse service. You don't get it. 115 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:42.199 That's usually the exact opposite of what you want. Driving 116 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:45.199 to services today, I had the radio on and I 117 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:47.040 was hearing one of the chief of police is the 118 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:49.439 chief of police in Long Beach, and he was saying 119 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:50.399 he was teaching. 120 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:51.720 He said, we teach. 121 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:56.399 Our cops in a crisis, you lower your voice, not 122 00:06:56.519 --> 00:07:00.680 raise it. Well, naturally, in a christ you want to 123 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:04.360 raise your voice. And he said, no, No, what's that? 124 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:08.360 That's just going to escalate the problem escalated. So you 125 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:11.839 ask yourself, is this emotion actually getting me where I 126 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:14.600 want to go? So let's say you want to change 127 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:18.519 your husband, or your kids, or your wife or somebody 128 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:23.240 who works with you. Does nagging work? Has it ever 129 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:27.399 worked anywhere? Let me ask you this, Does nagging work 130 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:32.079 on you? When somebody comes and tells you all the 131 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:34.399 things that you're doing wrong? Doesn't that just make you 132 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:38.319 want to change? 133 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:39.439 No? 134 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:43.720 No, all it does is make you defensive. So you 135 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:47.319 need to ask yourself. I know I'm frustrated right now 136 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:51.560 with this person in my life, but is expressing my 137 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:56.120 frustration to them going to actually make the change and 138 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:57.920 I'm going to get what I want out of this? 139 00:07:58.079 --> 00:07:58.720 No, it is not. 140 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:06.360 That's called managing your emotions. You've got to name it. 141 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:10.439 Here's what I'm feeling, and here's the trigger. And then 142 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:12.800 you've got to challenge it. What's the real reason I 143 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:15.240 feel this way? Is it true? Is it helping me? 144 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:18.240 Or is it hurting me? And then the third thing 145 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:21.439 you got to do is you've got to tame it 146 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:27.759 or change it. You've got to change it. You've got 147 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:30.000 to make the change in the emotion that you want 148 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.759 to make when you have that unwanted emotion. Now, as 149 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:35.039 I said, last week, we talked about managing your mind. 150 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:38.480 This week we're talking about managing your heart. If you 151 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:42.120 want to succeed in life, you must learn how to 152 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:45.720 master your moods. And when you have a mood, when 153 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:48.440 you have an emotion that isn't getting you where you 154 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:55.000 want to get, you've got two options. You either change 155 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:56.879 it or you channel it. 156 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:03.000 You're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. 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Let me talk to you about 187 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:12.360 both of these things. Some emotions are so destructive, so damaging, 188 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:17.200 so hurtful, so non effective. The only attitude only thing 189 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:19.440 you can do is just change it. You got to 190 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:23.720 change what you're feeling. Philippians two five says this, Your 191 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:29.519 attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus. 192 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:32.799 So your attitude that includes your emotions, what you're feeling, 193 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:34.720 should be the same as that of Jesus. So you 194 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:38.559 ask yourself, how would Jesus feel in the situation. Would 195 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:41.240 Jesus get irritated with this waitress? 196 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:41.440 No? 197 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:44.759 Would Jesus be yelling at the person. 198 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:45.080 No? 199 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:49.320 Would Jesus be giving up, wringing his hands and worrying 200 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:50.679 that it isn't all going to work out. 201 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:51.000 No. 202 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:55.600 Would Jesus be fearful, No, would Jesus be worried. 203 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:55.960 No. 204 00:11:57.559 --> 00:12:02.639 So the bottom line on this one is I instantly 205 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:05.519 dismiss any feeling that doesn't make me more like Jesus. 206 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:08.919 Your attitude should be the same as Jesus. So if 207 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.360 I'm feeling an emotion, I've identified it, and I go, 208 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:14.600 would Jesus have this emotion? No, then that's not the 209 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:16.600 way I should be responding to my wife right now, 210 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:23.039 because Jesus wouldn't respond that way. So I instantly dismiss 211 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:26.600 any feeling. Jesus would not be prideful, Jesus would not 212 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:30.559 be envious, Jesus would not be bitter. Jesus would not 213 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:36.799 be enraged. I would instantly drop that attitude. But sometimes 214 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:40.480 you can even take a negative emotion that you're feeling 215 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:46.039 and rather than change it, you channel it. You channel it. 216 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:49.399 What does that mean you use it for good? For instance, 217 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:57.039 let's say you have been the victim of injustice. You 218 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:05.600 have experienced prejudice, maybe racial profiling. You have experienced unfairness 219 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:11.080 in the classroom, unfairness because you're a man or a woman, 220 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:15.799 or a different color from somebody else, or whatever. But 221 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:19.639 you've had something unfair in your life and you naturally 222 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:21.759 the emotion's going to come up in you is anger. 223 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:29.039 That's a legitimate response. Is my anger going to get 224 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:33.799 me what I want? Probably not? But can my anger be. 225 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:35.960 Used for good to help other people? Yes? 226 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:39.399 And all of a sudden you become a champion for 227 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:44.759 justice because you know what it means to have experienced injustice. 228 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:46.080 Does that make sense? 229 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:50.879 And so you take a negative emotion anger, And when 230 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:55.799 you use your anger for your benefit, that's selfish anger. 231 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:59.200 That's a sin. When you use your anger for the 232 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:03.960 benefit of people, that's righteous anger. See, anger is not 233 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:07.440 a sin. The Bible says in scripture, be angry and 234 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:10.320 sin not. It's what you do with that anger, and 235 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:12.919 it's the reason you're angry that makes either sin or not. 236 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:16.279 You can get angry. If somebody hurt my wife and kids, 237 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:20.720 I'd get angry. I would because anger is sometimes in 238 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:25.120 evidence of love. If you never get angry about anything, 239 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:27.399 it means you're apathetic. It means you have no love 240 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:30.919 in your life. Because if you love something or someone 241 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.679 and somebody hurts them, you're going to get angry. That's 242 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:39.960 the natural thing. Love gets angry. God gets angry. The 243 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:41.840 only reason you have the ability to get angry because 244 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:44.679 God gets angry. God gets angry at sin, God gets 245 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:47.279 angry to evil. God gets angry when women are rape. 246 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:50.120 God gets angry when children are molested. God gets angry 247 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:53.480 when people are abused and misused and injustice. And so 248 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:56.919 you could take a negative emotion and you can use 249 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:59.559 it in a positive way. 250 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:05.879 Let me give you another example. Many of you. 251 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:10.639 Have wanted to be married and it just didn't happen, 252 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:18.559 and your love has been blocked to date. Some of 253 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:23.080 you are married and you've wanted to have children and 254 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:25.399 it hasn't happened, and your love. 255 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:31.519 Has been blocked to date. What do you do with 256 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:32.679 a blocked love? 257 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:38.799 Do you pull yourself back into a prison, lock the door, 258 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:41.600 pull up the drawbridge, fill the moat with alligators, and 259 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:45.039 say I'm never going to let anybody hurt me again. No, 260 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:48.600 what do you do? What do you do with a 261 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:53.360 blocked love? You rechannel it. Maybe you didn't get to 262 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:56.759 love the person you wanted to love, but the world 263 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:01.559 is full of people who need your love. Maybe you 264 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:03.600 didn't get to have the children you wanted to have, 265 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.320 but there's one hundred and thirty seven million orphans in 266 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:10.000 the world, and there are children on your street who 267 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:14.679 need your love. You rechannel a blocked love. You use 268 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:18.200 it for good. You don't stew in your hurt. You 269 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.440 use it for good. If you don't change the emotion, 270 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:24.919 you channel the emotion. 271 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:28.440 And you use it for good. 272 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:35.840 When Matthew died, I entered into the most deep possible 273 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:38.039 grief you could imagine. I'm still not out of it, 274 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.159 and I cry every day for the death of my 275 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:48.919 son and the loss of his life. But I decided 276 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:52.720 from the first moment that I was going to channel 277 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:56.720 that grief for good, and that I would use my 278 00:16:56.919 --> 00:16:59.519 pain to help other people. And CA did too, and 279 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:04.279 we have been doing it because I'm not about to 280 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:09.039 waste hurt. I'm not about to waste any pain that 281 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.680 I go through. If I'm going to have it, I'm 282 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:17.039 going to use it for good. What pain in your 283 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:21.720 life are you using for good? Maybe you have been 284 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:23.599 in so much pain you didn't even want to talk 285 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:27.160 about it. Then you need to learn to manage your emotions. 286 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:30.000 You need to name it, you need to challenge it, 287 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.039 and then you need to channel it. If you're not 288 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:37.119 going to change it and use it for good, and 289 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:40.240 God can use it in your life. Your greatest ministry 290 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:46.680 could come out of your deepest pain. Your greatest ministry 291 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:49.000 will not come out of your strength and successes. You 292 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:51.119 do your strength and discusses, people just go, well, goodie 293 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:53.720 for you, you're good at it. But if it comes out 294 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:57.799 of your pain, then it could help others. So you 295 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:03.960 change it or you channel it. Now, what about those 296 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.519 ones that need changing? How do you tame a wild 297 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:10.480 emotion you got? You say, I am a worrier and 298 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:12.720 I cannot stop worrying, and I can't stop that. 299 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:14.440 I just worry, worry, worry. 300 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:17.240 Where I am a perfectionist and I can't stop it. 301 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:21.240 I just criticize and judge and pick and nag, and 302 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:25.599 I am lazy and I just tend to be ill 303 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:27.279 these emotions. 304 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:27.240 In my mind. 305 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:32.279 Fear, I'm a fearful person. Anger, I'm a naturally angry person. 306 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:35.400 And I lose my temper either blow up or I 307 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:38.079 clam up. And there are different kinds of uh. You know, 308 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:41.720 there's the there's Mountain Vesuvius, and there's the mute, and 309 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:43.960 there's the martyr poor me. There's lots of ways. But 310 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:47.039 it's a problem in your life. How do you tame 311 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:52.160 a wild emotion? Well, not by willpower, not by willpower, 312 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:53.920 the Bible says, this is Zachariah. 313 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:54.519 Or six. 314 00:18:56.279 --> 00:19:00.519 You will not succeed by your own strength or power, 315 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:06.359 but by my spirit, says the Lord Almighty zachar For six. 316 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:10.240 You don't change an emotion by willpower. I'm going to 317 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:15.039 force this change emotion. It doesn't work that way, he says. 318 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:18.400 It's not by power, it's not by might. It's by 319 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:22.519 my spirit, says the Lord. Well, how does that happen? 320 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:26.240 How do you let the Holy Spirit change an emotion 321 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:30.440 that's hurting you and hurting other people in your life. 322 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:32.759 Let me give you two starter suggestions. 323 00:19:32.839 --> 00:19:37.680 Number one, every day, ask God to fill me with 324 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:41.680 his spirit. I don't get out of bed, my feet 325 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:45.400 don't touch the ground without me saying, Holy Spirit, fill 326 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:49.640 me today. I need your spirit in my life because 327 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:52.799 it's not by might, nor by power, not willpower, but 328 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:55.160 by my spirit. I'm going to be able to manage 329 00:19:55.200 --> 00:20:00.000 my moods and my emotions today. Galatians five twenty two 330 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:03.799 in twenty three says this, when the Holy Spirit controls 331 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:08.519 our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us. 332 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:18.200 Love, joy, peace. We could stop right there. 333 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.039 I'll just take those three. 334 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:25.680 This is Pastor Rick's daily hope. We're so happy that 335 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:28.920 you've chosen to study along with us today. If you'd 336 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:32.319 like to receive ricks free daily devotional, just go to 337 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:36.079 Pastorick dot com and sign up right now. Rick will 338 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:38.920 be back to close out our time today. 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