Managing Your Emotions

Master Your Emotions

- delayed gratification means to WAIT ....

What is Emotional Intelligence?
- ability to recognize moods, feelings and process them into right thinking and actions

When Expectations do not match Reality there is Disappointment

The more we shelter our children with disappointment, the more devastating their future will be.

1 Peter 2:2

"Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation"

>>> if you have tasted the goodness of God there is hunger for the word of God

Luke 2.52

⁵² And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

1 Corinthians 3:1-3

 ¹ Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. ² I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. ³ You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? 

Master your emotions by being GOD-CENTERED

How to be God-centered:
1. Turn to God all the time. PRAY
2. Process with God
3. Trust Him. Entrust circumstances, problems
4. Wait for the Lord
5. Praise Him

SAUL --> Example of Human-centered

1 Samuel 18:14-16 --> Insecurity
1 Samuel 15:24 --> Fear
1 Samuel 20:31-33 --> Anger


Do not make decisions when emotionally high

DAVID --> Example of God-centered
1 Samuel 17:28-29
1 Samuel 30:3-4

1 Samuel 30:6 

⁶ David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

Psalm 56:3-4, 11-12

 ³ When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.
 ⁴ In God, whose word I praise—
in God I trust and am not afraid.
   What can mere mortals do to me? 

¹¹ in God I trust and am not afraid.
   What can man do to me?

 ¹² I am under vows to you, my God;
   I will present my thank offerings to you.

Psalm 43:5

 ⁵ Why, my soul, are you downcast?
   Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
   for I will yet praise him,
   my Savior and my God. 

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Psalm 57:1-2, 9

1 Samuel 24:4-10

Fact - Faith - Feeling

Psalm 27:4

⁴ 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. 

>> David's attitude toward God