Learning To Control Our Emotions...

 

Staying Calm...

Why we must submit our emotional reactions to God...

We cannot control what goes on around us,

Or what may even be directed to us!

Our emotions are a gift from the Lord;

But he wants us to learn to not allow them to control us.

I think that at certain times of the year we can become
More sensitive and emotional when the holidays roll around!
Does that allow us to act out?
Taking every thought captive is powerful!

The range of emotions we can experience in any given hour or day,

Is really too many to list, but here are a few to use as an example.

I feel sad and feel like crying

I am feeling very angry

I feel unappreciated right now

I feel lonely and unloved

I am afraid

These are all ( I ) statements!

(I) get this

That is the whole point here...

(I) Is what I am given control over,

Not others, but myself

We can have such a range of emotions on any given day,

So I have been given a command from the Lord to exercise this control!

The world and our own lives may seem out of control;

But I can assure you God is still on His throne,

What I need to do is get off mine!

Learning to exercise some self control is an action that holds great

Dividend's my friends.

You become a woman of great worth.

Self control is a great asset to have.

It allows us to speak to our husbands in the language they understand.

(Facts and Reality)

It is just the way they function, it is not that you never cry while

Expressing your heart to your husband as we may all do at times in our marriage.

What I have been learning for years is this;

My emotions are a very special gift from the Lord;

And it is important to keep them under His love and control

Not always easy...

But as we exercise this and practice this quality

We become more like Him...

Jesus was angry and sinned not!

"Jesus wept"

Wanting to learn and to respond to the fruit of self-control is

A very powerful thing!

We all have this ability...

If we did not have the ability that would be terrible.

We have a teacher called the Holy Spirit!

We can pray and ask Him to teach us this most important fruit!

Once you sense you are not showing self-control;

Quickly ask the Lord for grace to react kindly and in love!

Once those words come out, there is not getting them back.

I have been asking the Lord to help me not to become so quickly agitated
Or irritated over something my Husband may have said.
We little ladies sometimes get on our high horses!
The word tells us not to think more highly of ourselves than we ought.

Why do we always want to be right!
(Even when we may not be right)
Keeping the peace is usually a wiser thing to do!

This does not mean we cannot tell our Husbands our ideas!
But, it is usually in how we go about it!
Arms crossed, eyes rolling!
The sigh...
~ it's not like I have ever actually done those things~

You get the picture...

Everyday is another chance with the Holy Spirit's help to
exercise putting on the garment of self-control!

Putting on self-control is like wearing a garment that fits really well...