Managing Your Emotions - Joyce Meyer

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Managing Your Emotions - Joyce Meyer focuses on learning how to handle anger and other feelings in a God-honoring way. The text argues that believers are not called to eliminate emotions, because emotions were given for a purpose, and denial only increases guilt and condemnation. Using Bible teaching, it explains that when anger arises one must not sin, but manage it properly. It also addresses how deep emotions can originate from earlier wounds and how to channel emotional responses with spiritual guidance.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryReligion & Spirituality

FormatPDF

Pages179

Reading Time7 h 31 min

AccessFree to download

Introduction

How Not To Be Led by Your Feelings

Healing of Damaged Emotions, Part 1

Healing of Damaged Emotions, Part 2

Emotions and the Process of Forgiveness

Mood Swings

Understanding and Overcoming Depression

He Restoreth My Soul

Rooted in Shame

Understanding Co-Dependence

Restoring the Inner Child

Conclusion

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from The Amplified Bible (AMP) . Old Testament copyright © 1965, 1987 by The Zondervan Corporation, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Amplified New Testament copyright © 1954, 1958, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked (xjv) are taken from the King James Version of the Bible. Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. 6th Printing Managing Your Emotions Instead of Your Emotions Managing You! ISBN 1-57794-0261 Copyright © 1997 by Joyce Meyer Life In The Word, Inc. P. O. Box 655 Fenton, Missouri 63026 Published by Harrison House, Inc. P.O. Box 35035 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74153 Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved under International Copyright Law. Contents and/or cover may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form without the express written consent of the Publisher. [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) CONTENTS Introduction 1 How Not To Be Led by Your Feelings 2 Healing of Damaged Emotions, Part 1 3 Healing of Damaged Emotions, Part 2 4 Emotions and the Process of Forgiveness 5 Mood Swings 6 Understanding and Overcoming Depression 7 He Restoreth My Soul 8 Rooted in Shame 9 Understanding Co-Dependence 10 Restoring the Inner Child Conclusion [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) INTRODUCTION Many of the thoughts in this book were originally presented in several seminar series I taught on the subject of emotions and emotional health and healing. In those meetings I made it clear to my listeners that the purpose of the presentation was not to teach them how to get rid of emotions, but how to manage emotions. As I told them, nobody will ever reach the place of not having emotions. Nobody will ever reach a point in life of not experiencing a wide variety of feelings. For example, no matter how hard you and I may try, we will always have to deal with the emotion of anger, which causes many people a lot of guilt and condemnation. The reason they come under guilt and condemnation is because they have the false idea that as Christians we are never to get angry. Yet the Bible does not teach that we are never to feel anger. Instead it teaches that when we do get angry, we are not to sin, but rather we are to manage or control our anger in the proper way: "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath" (Eph. 4:26 KJV) . There was a time when God gave me a real revelation about that Scripture. I had gotten angry at my husband one day as I was about to leave home to go preach. Guilt and condemnation came over me asking, "How can you go out and preach to others after getting angry like that this morning?" Of course, I was still angry, so that question bothered me. As I began to meditate on it, the Lord revealed to me this verse in Ephesians which says to be angry and sin not. God caused me to understand that anger is just an emotion. Like all emotions, it was given to us by God Himself for a reason. If we didn't have the capacity to become angry, we would never know when someone else was mistreating us. That's what anger is for. Like pain, it is there to warn us that something is wrong. As with all emotions, the problem is Satan tries to use and abuse our anger to lead us into sin. Many times people come to me for counseling, saying, "I have this deepseated anger inside me." This anger is often a wound left over from childhood hurts. In that case, the answer is not so much to get rid of the anger, but to get at the root of what is causing it to hang on and cause problems after all these years. This is part of staying in balance. It is not right to go around feeling angry all the time, any more than it is right to go around feeling pain all the time. But we must

FAQs

Does the book teach Christians to get rid of emotions?

No. It emphasizes that people will always experience emotions, so the goal is to manage them rather than eliminate them.

How should believers respond when they feel anger?

The text teaches that anger itself is an emotion given by God, but believers must not sin and should control their anger properly.

What is the role of childhood wounds in deep-seated anger?

The book explains that deep anger often comes from wounds left over from childhood hurts, and the remedy involves reaching the root cause rather than only trying to remove the anger.

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