This week on Better Together, Priscilla Shirer discusses how often times we cover our emotions with busy schedules. Join the conversation as Laurie Crouch, Natalie Grant, Hosanna Wong, and Dr. Anita Phillips join Priscilla Shirer to discuss how we can welcome the peace of the Holy Spirit into our lives to help us come to terms with how we are feeling.
so awareness might be the place that’s
hard for someone like me
where because we’re just moving forward
and we’re taking care of the people in
our lives i think of for example
the scenario that we are in right now
having experienced so many hard things
personally and in our family life
in the last several years but then even
in these last few weeks
i’ve been taking care of my husband
taking care of my sons
and i’ve been so busy in being mindful
about their
emotional health that i’ve noticed that
when someone asks me how
i am doing it it actually makes me pause
for a second to go i don’t even know
i haven’t even taken time to really have
an awareness to what it is that i’m
feeling because i’m so busy taking care
of everything else
so i feel like busyness then can become
a scapegoat for us
where it’s just easier to tend to
everybody else
than to sit for a second and and if i
can just say
i think that one of the gifts and i say
that
loosely because i want to be careful not
to imply that the chaos of 2020
has been um you know has been a good
thing it has been chaotic
there have been many people who have
suffered so much loss whether
financially or
with grief with loved ones because of
covid but if there is
one of the the benefits or gifts that
have come out of it
is that a lot of us have had an
opportunity to sit still
and actually develop an awareness of
what we actually
feel in a way that we haven’t had an
opportunity to do before because it’s
been masked
and numbed underneath the guise of
busyness god created us
in his image and and so
if he did that then we do feel love we
feel
joy we feel disappointment we feel hurt
we feel pain
we feel all of it i find dr anita and
priscilla
that um that
we can’t let emotions control us but we
need to control our emotions
but if we don’t feel that god is always
in control then we can
lose it we can lose our emotions
and i think we’re seeing so much of that
today you know jesus said
my peace i give to you
and i believe he fought for that peace i
believe exactly what you were talking
about dr anita
him going through all of those emotions
before the cross he paid that price
so that we can have that peace my peace
i give to you my peace i
i leave with you priscilla
people that don’t have that peace that
don’t
feel that god is literally in control
because we know he is
as christians and and christ followers
we believe that god is control
of every mess that we make of every mess
that’s going on
today well no i appreciate that just you
bringing up
the basically the work of the holy
spirit that’s what you’re talking about
the peace that he leaves with us is the
person of the holy spirit
and the holy spirit comes into the life
of someone who has placed faith in jesus
ephesians chapter 1 says that at the
moment you believe you receive the holy
spirit and the holy spirit is not
an it or a ghost or a fire or a dove
he’s symbolized by those things often in
scripture but he is the third
person of the trinity and when he takes
up residence on the inside of you
all the power the presence of god the
father
is in the person of the holy spirit and
the holy spirit’s job
is to shake awake those things that are
spiritually slumbering
and separated from god in us that is our
soul which is our mind
will and emotions our conscience that’s
what comprises our soul
so our emotions is a part of that and
the holy spirit takes up residence in us
he shakes your emotions awake from
their spiritual slumber your conscience
away from it awake
awake from its spiritual slumber and he
allows those things now to be under the
jurisdiction and the power of the
presence of god
so that every aspect of who you are now
becomes sanctified
molded into the image of jesus christ so
that we start thinking like he thinks
and
feeling in line with how he feels
so that what breaks his heart breaks our
heart so that the things he would be
angered about
we are now angered about as we watch
things unfold on the news or
on social media feed or in in areas of
justice or government or whatever
our heart begins to break about those
things that are happening underneath the
roof of our house
that are out of alignment with god’s
best design
for our family or for our our
relationships
the holy spirit allows that our emotions
then become
instruments used by him to help us to
walk
and feel and breathe and experience a
life that is
in line with the will and the plan of
god and i’m so grateful for that that he
doesn’t discard our emotions
basically discarding our humanity like
dr anita was just saying
while i was laying on her couch a few
minutes ago but um
basically he allows our humanity
under the control of the holy spirit all
of it is not pushed to the curb
it is molded into the image of jesus and
he utilizes
us as we are underneath and submitted to
the control of the holy spirit
for his glory and for our good i hope
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