“The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.” -John Wesley (1703-1791), English cleric, theologian, and evangelist
If our feelings are bigger than we are, it’s because they are being fed by the ideas and images we cultivate–mostly of the world. What images are you giving airtime to? Ask God to reveal to you the ideas and images He wants you to have. Love, joy, peace, confidence and hope will be the center of His images.
Feelings can be transformed by discipleship to Christ and the power of the gospel and the Spirit. The destructive nature is eliminated as you make the first move going toward faith in Jesus Christ.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. -Galatians 5:22-23
Pray:
One thing I ask from the Lord,
this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple. -Psalmn 27:4
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