Be Transformed: How To Deal With How You Feel [Week 5]
MDO Teachers Summer Semester 2025
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts 1:8
“Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.”
Romans 12:2
“The
most important commandment is this: You must love the Lord your God with ALL YOUR HEART, and all your SOUL, and all your MIND, and all your STRENGTH.”
Mark 12:29-30 (NLT)
Understanding Your Emotions
1. God Has Emotions!
2. 3. 4.
“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness...’”
Genesis 1:26 (NIV)
1. God Has Emotions!
1. God Has Emotions!
2. Emotions Are A Gift From God!
3. Avoid Two Extremes!
4.
Emotionalism:
“All That Matters Is How I Feel.”
Stoicism:
“Feelings Aren’t Important at All.”
1. God Has Emotions!
2. Emotions Are A Gift From God!
3. Avoid Two Extremes!
4. The Psalms Teach Us Emotional Honesty!
Why
You Must Manage Your Emotions?
Why Manage Emotions BECAUSE...
• My Feeling Are Often Unreliable.
“There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end, it leads to death.”
Proverbs 14:12 (NIV)
Why Manage Emotions BECAUSE...
• My Feeling Are Often Unreliable.
• Unmanaged Emotions Make You Vulnerable.
“Like an open city with no defenses is the man with no check on his feelings.”
Proverbs 25:28 (NAB)
“Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”
1 Peter 5:8 (NIV)
Why Manage Emotions BECAUSE...
• My Feeling Are Often Unreliable.
• Unmanaged Emotions Make You Vulnerable.
• Unmanaged Emotions Displease God.
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6 To be controlled by human nature results in death; to be controlled by the Spirit results in life and peace. 7 And so people become enemies of God when they are controlled by their human nature; for they do not obey God’s law, and in fact they cannot obey it. 8 Those who obey their human nature cannot please God.
Romans 8:6-8 (GNB)
Why Manage Emotions BECAUSE...
• My Feeling Are Often Unreliable.
• Unmanaged Emotions Make You Vulnerable.
• Unmanaged Emotions Displease God.
• Emotional Control Leads To Succees!
“[People] get lost and die because of their foolishness and lack of self-control.”
Proverbs 5:23 (CEV)
“From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God’s will and not by human desires.”
1 Peter 4:2 (TEV)
How To Manage Unwanted Feelings
How To Manage Unwanted Feelings
• Name It! Ask: What Am I Really Feeling?
How To Manage Unwanted Feelings
• Name It!
Ask: What Am I Really Feeling?
• Challenge It!
Ask: What’s The Real Reason I’m Feeling This?
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How To Manage Unwanted Feelings
• Name It!
Ask: What Am I Really Feeling?
• Challenge It!
Ask: What’s The Real Reason I’m Feeling This?
• Tame It!
“Your attitude (your emotions) should be the same as that of Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 2:5
How To Live Spirit-Led Emotionally
“You will not succeed by your own strength or power. But by my Spirit says the Lord almighty.”
Zechariah 4:6
How To Live
• Ask Daily To Be Filled With The Holy Spirit!
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“When
the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”
Galatians 5:22-23 (NLT)
How To Live
• Ask Daily To Be Filled With The Holy Spirit!
• Ask God To Help Manage Your Mouth!
“Self-control means controlling the tongue!”
Proverbs 13:3 (LB)
“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”
Psalm 119:11
“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord!”
Psalm 19:14 (NIV)
“It’s not what goes in you that makes you unclean; it’s what comes out of you that makes you unclean...”
Matthew 15:11
Dear God, Thank You for creating us with emotions and for caring about how we feel.
Today, we surrender our emotions to You. Help us to name what we feel, challenge it with Your truth, and change or channel it by Your Spirit.
Thank you for saving us. Fill us with Your Holy Spirit. Be Lord over our hearts, not just our minds. Shape our words and responses to reflect You.
We commit our emotions to You now— In Jesus’ name, Amen.
