As a woman, it’s natural to be more “in tune” with your feelings. We are wired differently from men because we can sense things that perhaps they can’t. Our feelings can help us discern “suspect” people or circumstances when we have no physically proof but all we know is that “something doesn’t feel right.” And oftentimes those suspicious feelings are valid.
But there are also times when we can allow our feelings and emotions to reign over our lives to the point that we surrender to them in a way that is detrimental to our growth in faith and maturity. There may be times where you will have a bad attitude with others at work because, “Today, you just are not in the mood.” Or there will be other times where you’re having faith for something big but because your feelings don’t agree with what you believe, you choose to follow your feelings and lose hope in whatever it is that you are having faith for.
Your feelings are triggered by your thought life because the quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life. If you allow yourself to meditate on thoughts of fear, jealousy, pride, anger, resentment or bitterness then your feelings will soon follow which will lead to the decisions that you make.
The greatest battlefield in life is not facing challenges that we can see, it’s the battlefield of the mind. And one of the greatest weapons that will be used against us receiving God’s promises and building a life that we desire is the falsehood that will try to manifest itself in our imaginations. Those imaginations are usually thoughts of things that will hurt you, fearful thoughts of your future, imagined threats of your future, or thoughts that contradict the very promises of hope, joy, prosperity and success that God has placed in your heart.
Once those imaginations start to penetrate your mind, feelings that amplify those thoughts will start to stir up trying to control your decision making. If you don’t have a clear mind then you can’t have a clear life. In order to receive the promises of your future, revelations and discernment then you must have a clear mind and that’s why there’s such an attack on your head and your emotions.
This is NOT the time to lose your head and fall subject to your feelings. This is NOT the time to allow your feelings to control you. It’s time to pull your feelings, insecurities and emotions out of what you know is yours, out of what you know you are destined to become, out of what you know God has revealed to you!
You can’t cry, fuss or kick and scream your way out of your assignment. It’s time for you to take a bold stand on what you know and check your feelings. It’s not the time to be weak and allow your feelings to control you; you have come too for that now. It’s time for you to command your feelings and stand in your strength which comes from God – you are NEVER alone and He’s given you the power to stand.
God didn’t promise that our feelings will line up with the facts. When God reveals something to you about your future or gives you a dream to realize in your heart, He didn’t say that your feelings would agree because it’s up to you to check that. God will do for you what you cannot do on your own but He won’t do for you what you can do on your own. It’s time to check your feelings.
Succumbing to every way that you “feel” is highly ineffective. We keep doing it and doing it, hoping to have some sort of different outcome but isn’t that the definition of insanity? It’s time to stop being loyal to our ineffective ways and marry effectiveness. If falling subject to your feelings and imaginations have not helped you then it’s time to try something different.
It’s time to stand on what you know, it’s time to grow up in your faith, it’s time to become who you have been called to be so that you can clearly honor what you have been called to do. This is not the time to lose your head, girl you have too much coming up to fall back now!
XOXO,
Maria I. Melendez
@embraceherlegacy