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This creates a dilemma: we like the thought of being rich, but boasting makes us feel good. The Lord gave us feelings and he would like us to enjoy even the nice feeling that boasting creates. Does this make us feel half dead? What initiates my self-consciousness is more often feelings of inadequacy than pride. Before I know it, the Lord has slipped from my thinking and I’m getting that sinking feeling.

Feelings can be devastatingly strong and deceptively convincing. Most likely, that insidious feeling is the product of significant people in one’s life breaking God’s Perhaps this is one reason why people feel a unique completeness in a good marriage. up feeling this way even toward innocent people. But God cares, regardless of how intensely it can feel that he doesn’t.

James approached Jesus about calling down fire down from heaven to destroy a Samaritan village that rejected

are likely to end up not only enslaved by a deeply entrenched habit of being hard on ourselves, but feel It hinges, however, on letting go of the bitterness and resentment we feel, regardless of whether those feelings are directed toward God, ourselves or other people.

How can anyone have genuine compassion for the exploited without feeling anger at those who deliberately The Almighty’s love fuels a wrath more terrifying than the worst nightmare. Our motive, however, must not be revenge, bitterness or a self-righteous feeling of superiority, but Luke 6:22 Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name When people rejected him, James and John asked Jesus for his power to call down fire from heaven to destroy

Your spiritual enemies, however, want to make you feel uneasy about running to God. because we live in a world that keeps hurting people since so many of its inhabitants hate God and reject of rejection that never ceased to haunt me. (I think God feels that way, too, and he certainly chose that path via the cross.) Trials often  feel  endless, but they never are.

Together with God we are forming a team in which each of us feels strong and safe and capable. Jesus knows how you feel and intercedes for you; going to God on your behalf. I love the way Freedom is now feeling safer and having fun. Now, my friend, you are feeling your humanity and your pain. No longer is your “job” to protect. I have a feeling that alters are fighting with you and the tug-o-war is getting you nowhere.

Even if you don’t feel that great love is being expressed by believers that you know, that is no reason a true apostle or angel from Heaven preaches a gospel contrary to the Bible, that ‘gospel’ must be rejected

No one should intimidate you into doing anything you feel uncomfortable about. If you feel your questions and concerns are not being given adequate attention, end the appointment and

to hundreds of people around him and it will not be long before, regardless of his millions, he is feeling Without exaggeration, the most sadistic of all crimes is to let people feel assured of salvation when She ended up with everything she had hoped for, but only because she refused to take rejection as the I feel hurt, not merely because I don’t get what I want, but because I keep falling into the trap of God is highly personal, with passions and feelings so deep that alongside him we are hard and cold.

Mostly, God leads by such things as vague feelings. happiness would suffer enormously, yet sacrificing everything for long term benefits could leave us so dejected

To push God out of part of our lives is to reject wisdom and security and love. We must be careful not to feel untouchable, however; forgetting that only because big brother is with Us thinking we can outwit this caged, evil genius is like a little child tinkering with a bomb, feeling after being delivered, one of the most highly seductive of those demons appeared to her when she was feeling So all he can do is mess with your feelings, hoping that you will start to believe them rather than believe