1. 5 Love God with all your Mind: Emotions
[Jesus] The most important commandment is this [quoting Deuteronomy 6]: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ (Mark )

2. 5 Love God with all your Mind: Emotions
Recap: Loving God with all our mind means capturing our thoughts and feelings and devoting them to what is good for God. It’s amazingly difficult.

3. 5 Love God with all your Mind: Emotions
What you’re thinking at any given time is your ultimate freedom. A Christian must capture, clean up, tame and train her/his thoughts.

4. Changing your ideas will rock your world.
5 Love God with all your Mind: Emotions
Your thoughts include ideas, images, info, feelings and logic (or not).
Changing your ideas will rock your world.

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The most important ideas
God is God, I’m not
Jesus is Lord
God’s kingdom will last forever
It takes courage to live out these ideas.

6. 5 Love God with all your Mind: Emotions
Our mind uses images to capture our
attention, form our worldview and engage our emotions.
Advertising manipulates us with images.

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For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14.17

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Your thinking more than anything else shapes the way you live. It’s really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life. John Maxwell

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We’re emotional beings because God is, and he made us in his image.
And God saw that it was good... good... good... very good. (Gen 1).

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Jesus was emotional.
Jesus looked around at them [religious leaders] angrily and was deeply saddened by their hard hearts. (Mark 3.5)
Jesus was filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit,
and he said, “O Father... (Lk 10.21)
Jesus wept. (Jn 11.35)
Jesus had to respond to emotions.
They hated me without a cause. (Jn 15.25)

11. 5 Love God with all your Mind: Emotions
It’s hard to define feelings; there’s no complete list: sensations, emotions and desires/passions. We feel dizzy, thirsty, sleepy, weary, lonely, sexy/sensual, jealous, successful, compassionate. We’re happy or sad, fearful. We have the sensation of dread or ecstasy.

12. Love should rule our lives – make this your vision, your dream.
5 Love God with all your Mind: Emotions
We experience love/ hate, joy/depression, peace/anxiety. If feelings become moods permeating our being, they control our life. Eg: fear, anger and bitterness.
Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many. (Heb b)
Love should rule our lives – make this your vision, your dream.

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Emotions are essential.
Don’t repress or deny them.
Tame and use them.

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The influence of feelings on...
Mind: A cheerful mind works healing (Pr 17:22, AMP)
Heart: Take delight in the Lord and he will give you your heart’s desires. (Ps 37:4)
Body: What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil [sensual] desires at war within you [ie in your body]? (James 4:1)
Social: For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind. (James 3.16) [the good Samaritan] felt compassion on him [the victim of assault]. (Lk 10.33)
Soul: My soul faints with longing for your salvation. (Psalm 119:81) 

15. We can’t master feelings directly, but we can be mastered by them.
5 Love God with all your Mind: Emotions
We can’t master feelings directly, but we can be mastered by them.
Feelings make wonderful servants but horrible masters! (Dallas Willard)

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Living by feelings
Many live controlled by their feelings, not by morals and character.
They’re YOLO-ed.
They get addicted, a feeling phenomenon of giving in to pleasure.

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Living by feelings
I have told you often before, and I say it again with tears in my eyes, that there are many whose conduct shows they are really enemies of the cross of Christ. They are headed for destruction. Their god is their appetite [desires, sensuality], they brag about shameful things, and they think only about this life here on earth. (Phil )
Feelings can be like little children clamoring for our attention, "Gimme, gimme, gimme.”

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Living by feelings
Unless we train our emotions they will lead us around by the nose, and we will be captives to every passing impulse or reaction.
Oswald Chambers

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How to tame and train our emotions
Become aware of your feelings, emotions, desires. Psalms is laced with emotions.
I am alone and in deep distress. Ps 25.16
I’m deeply sorry for what I have done [sin]. Ps 34.18
I will be filled with joy because of you. Ps 9.2

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How to tame and train our emotions
2. Process them. What’s the source?
“Why are you so angry?” the Lord asked Cain. “Why do you look so dejected? (Gen. 4.6)
Why am I discouraged [why am I in despair, O my soul?] Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again—my Savior and my God! (Ps a)
Women may be better than men at this

21. It’s not about the nail

22. How to tame and train our emotions 2. Process them. What’s the source?
5 Love God with all your Mind: Emotions
How to tame and train our emotions
2. Process them. What’s the source?
What image, what truth (or untruth), what ideas are your feelings connected to? You will gain a great deal of self-knowledge by constantly asking yourself, ‘Why am I feeling this way?’” (Joel Elies)

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How to tame and train our emotions
3. Change your thoughts and images and you’ll change your feelings. Replace the source with God’s Word.
Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him! (Ps 34.8)
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly... (Col 3.16)

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How to tame and train our emotions
4. Put your emotions to use in the kingdom of God: compassion and love.
Jesus had compassion on them... Mark 9.34

25. Becoming a child of light, permeated by love
5 Love God with all your Mind: Emotions
Becoming a child of light, permeated by love
1 John
...the emotional life of these children of light is characterized by love. That is how they invest their emotions. They love lots of good things and they love people. They love their life and who they are. They are thankful for their life, even though it may contain many difficulties, even persecution (Matt 5:10-12). Dallas Willard

26. Becoming a child of light, permeated by love 1 John 4.7-12
5 Love God with all your Mind: Emotions
Becoming a child of light, permeated by love 1 John
experience God’s love
...he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. (v. 10)

27. Becoming a child of light, permeated by love 1 John 4.7-12
5 Love God with all your Mind: Emotions
Becoming a child of light, permeated by love 1 John
2) Love God back
We know how much God loves us and we’ve put our trust in his love. (v. 16)

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Becoming a child of light, permeated by love 1 John
3) love those who love God
We love each other because he loved us first. (v. 19)

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Becoming a child of light, permeated by love 1 John
4) open my life to their love

30. 4 Love God with all your Mind: Images
And you?
What emotions are dominant in your life?
Are you changing your thoughts and images with God’s Word?
Do you want love to permeate your life?

31. 4 Love God with all your Mind: Images
And ROOTS?
Imagine ROOTS full of persons passionate about God and compassionate to others!!!