How to Take Your Thoughts Captive | Mindset Week 1

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You were made to be brave.

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You were born to make a difference.

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God designed you for heart-pumping, joy-filled adventure,

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and we're here to guide you to that adventurous life.

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Crossroads Church.

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- Hi, I'm Chuck Mingo, one of the teaching pastors at Crossroads.

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Thanks for joining us for a new series called Mindset

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where we're looking at how to master our thoughts and our emotions.

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Our emotions are a big part of how we're made as people,

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but they can also get out of control.

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And so in this series we're looking at

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how to not let them control us, but also how not to avoid them.

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I think we're all feeling some big emotions right now,

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whether we are concerned about job security

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or maybe our own health or the health of someone we care about.

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We have our family at home more,

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we're remote schooling our kids.

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In fact, just the other day,

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I totally lost it on one of my kids because of something

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I saw them do to their sibling that was not OK.

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But you know what? My response wasn't OK either.

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And so in this series we're looking at

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how to help our minds get to a better place.

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How do we change our mindset so on the other side

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we're healthier people.

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- How do I feel about the pandemic and the quarantine?

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- A mix of emotions.

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- I don't want to get laid off work.

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- Honestly, it changes every day.

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- Overwhelmed and incredibly monotonous.

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- If have to build one more pillow fort I could lose my mind.

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- My favorite thing about the quarantine

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is that I get to spend a lot of time with my sisters.

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- Well, I'm doing college at home

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so I haven't been late to a single 8 a.m. class.

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- I've been talking with my family on the phone.

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- I like sleeping in and my parents finally let me get Fortnite.

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- I get to play in my back yard more.

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- My dad had this idea to build a fort underneath the stairs

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and he taught me how to rewire an electrical outlet.

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- Well, I don't really like going places

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so I get to stay home in my pajamas.

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- I've been baking like a lot.

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- We get to have dance parties

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and we get to stay up a little later.

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- If you control your thoughts,

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you will control your future.

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If you can control your emotions,

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you will control your future.

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Your future is dictated by what happens

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between these ears right here.

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The Bible says as a man or woman thinketh, so is he.

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What we think, what we feel will tell us who we are.

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And you control your life.

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You control your life,

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not the government controlling your life,

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not coronavirus controlling your life,

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not the economy controlling your life.

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You control it.

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Some people don't think this is possible.

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Believe it or not, you can actually control your emotions.

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Emotions are like fire.

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Fire can be incredibly redemptive.

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It can fire a steam-fired locomotive and take your life someplace

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or it can destroy and devastate your life.

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Proverbs 25:28:

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A man without self-control

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is like a city broken into and left without walls.

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We just got done with a series on Jesus,

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the myths surrounding Jesus.

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We saw some of the classic places where He went in Israel

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during the last series.

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But if we're not careful,

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we might forget that Jesus was actually human.

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He was fully God, fully man at the same time.

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And as human, He had emotions and He controlled them.

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One of the things that I hate, I hate Bible trivia.

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Can't stand it, can't stand it. I don't like Bible trivia.

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If you ever get on Bible trivia, I'll tell you

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one of the questions is going to be

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what's the shortest verse in the Bible?

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You say, "It's 'Jesus wept.'" Two words. Yeah, He wept.

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Jesus had the emotions. He wept.

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He went to a friend's house who was dead, and He wept.

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The Bible says that Jesus was distressed.

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It says in the Book of Isaiah, prophesies about Him

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that he was a man of sorrows.

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Two different times we see intensive anger with Jesus.

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He comes into the temple

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and there are money changers who have these tables.

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And as people bring their foreign currency in,

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they trade it for the temple's currency so they can make an offering.

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No problem there, except they're doing it to make a profit.

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Jesus sees this house of prayer being turned into a profit center

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and He overturns the tables.

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He takes off the sash from around His waist.

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He starts swinging it around like a like a mad man.

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But He was in control. He knew what He was doing.

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I have three kids.

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Every birth of my children was incredibly emotional for me

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because I am adopted.

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When I saw my kids, I saw the first person who shared my DNA.

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I would get emotional.

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I get emotional still when my wife does things that I don't like,

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when I do things that she doesn't like.

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We can make the choice: Do I get emotional

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and do I just lash out?

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Or maybe I do get emotional, but I control my emotions

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and I try to harness them.

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I try to let her see my intensity and my concern

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instead of just brushing it under the rug.

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I can have my emotions explode our marriage

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or I can have my emotions be funneled to drive some things.

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This is what I'm saying friends, here's the thing.

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When I see person after person who's tanking their life,

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who thinks that it's not possible

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that I feel it, therefore I am

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or as Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am."

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I think he put the Descarte before de horse,

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because I think you are first before you think.

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But we think that if I'm feeling it's, the it's truth

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No, you're -- I'm feeling it and it's emotion.

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I now have to figure out how will I allow that emotion to come out

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and how will I allow to drive my life?

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You do that, friends, and you control your mind,

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you start controlling your emotions,

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you're going to start controlling your life,

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and you're going to go someplace that other normal people

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will not go under the direction of God.

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Well, we're gonna take a little time out here.

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We're going to get together with Amy Saxby.

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She's a teacher, a parent of four, a wife, and an author.

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And she's got a pretty fascinating term, I find.

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She talks about capturing every feeling.

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Amy, how are you? Tell us about capturing our feelings.

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- A lot of times when I process, I have to do it on paper

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because there's something about writing it down makes it real.

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And so when I write down how I'm feeling,

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I think I often can identify what is real behind my feeling

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and what is a worldly expect --

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like an expectation the world puts on me?

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Once I can separate those things, I think I can take the next step.

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I have to stop acting on my feelings if they're not real.

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- So what would happen if we've got an emotion

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that we're choosing not to examine?

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- I think it can get the best of us

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and it can become a stronghold.

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So let me give a very tangible example.

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Vanity, right? If I have an emotion that I,

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"Gosh, I'm just never going to look that good

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or I'm just never going to be able to exercise that way."

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If I don't examine it and get to the bottom of

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why do I feel this way really?

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Then I'm going to go that day and I'm in the workout for two hours

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and worry about what I'm eating.

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And those things are going to become the focus of my day

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and my activities vs. getting to the bottom of that emotion

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and letting go of it.

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I think after I go through this process

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and I really take time to sift through and figure out what's real,

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I can appreciate the emotions God has given me.

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I just think it's important to always remember that

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in emotion there's beauty and there's peace

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when you identify what's from Him.

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- Hey, Amy, thanks so much for being with us.

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You've been real blessing and I appreciate it.

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- Thanks, Brian.

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- So the last time I did this, used straight gasoline.

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I tell you what, I've been lighting fires for decades, decades.

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Everyone's always going, "Oh, don't light it with gasoline."

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I never had any problem.

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Well, then again, I never use four gallons of gasoline before.

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I won't be doing that again.

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- Yeah. He's not kidding.

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This is actually the second time this brush pile was set on fire.

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Want to see what happened the first time?

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- This is great.

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- If you're ever doing this, boys and girls,

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but you should not do this, boys and girls.

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If you ever do something like this when you're older

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and mature in your 50s, want to use diesel fuel.

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December 1993 I had a house fire.

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I woke up, took the kids next door,

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and watched my house being engulfed in flame from room to room.

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I slept at my in-laws that night

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and I woke up in the morning utterly devastated,

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feeling every emotion I could possibly imagine.

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And it only got worse from there.

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I had to go back over the charred remains of my house

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and see what was left.

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And what was left was my dog, who woke us up,

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dead from smoke inhalation inside of the remains.

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I still remember pulling him outside and burying him.

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I can still taste the salt in the tears

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as they came down my cheeks and hit my mouth.

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I can still remember not being able to focus and see

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as I furiously tried to dig a grave and place him in it.

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I knew then that my emotions were raging

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and it wasn't a bad thing for them to be raging,

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but I still wanted to take them captive

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and get ready to build a new life.

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Your emotions are like kids in a car.

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You can't have them drive,

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but you don't want them in the trunk either.

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I'll tell you something, man.

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Emotions will define your future.

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We see this with person after person in the Bible.

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The first king of Israel, his name was Saul,

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his emotions ruled him. If he felt it, he did it.

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And it caused him to be disqualified from being a king.

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The second guy in line, David, was being chased around

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by this guy who ruled with his emotions

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and he just waited until it was his time.

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He got his emotions in control.

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He didn't even kill him when he could have killed him.

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And as a result, he becomes a king and a great king.

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But even as a great king,

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David allowed his emotions to get the best of him sometimes.

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It caused him to have an adulterous affair.

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Friends, I'm telling you what, there is a fire

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that wants to rage and ravage your life.

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As a pastor I've interacted with hundreds,

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thousands of people who have burnt lives, charred to the bone.

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When we don't control our emotions,

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we have kids and we shouldn't be having kids.

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We make bad marriage choices.

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We get ourselves in massive credit card debt.

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We have bankruptcy.

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We have torched friendships. We have divorces.

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We have the wrong profession that we've chosen.

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Thing after thing after thing.

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And one of the things to look at

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to know whether or not your emotions are ruling you are:

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do you think that your emotion is the lead indicator

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for the very words of God?

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Emotions are not a word of God.

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I know many people who think, "I'm feeling it, God must be speaking."

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No, He's not. You're just getting emotional.

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I know some people who they're not feeling any emotions at all

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and they think, "Well, God doesn't talk to me."

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No, you just don't have emotions right now.

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Our emotions could be, but they are not necessarily,

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the voice of God.

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How do you know when your emotions are getting the best of you?

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As soon as you instinctually do whatever you're feeling,

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you may not be hearing from God.

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As soon as you can look back and you see a history

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of you doing something emotionally and you finding out later

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that that was not the best thing for your life

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and other people's lives,

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you know that your emotions have the best of you.

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As soon as your joy indicators, how you feel about

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how well your life is going is based on purely how you feel,

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you know you're putting way too much stock in your emotions.

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And as soon as you start disqualifying your emotions,

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as soon as you start trying to tamp it down,

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"I don't -- I don't want to cry."

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As soon as you start doing that, you know

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you're not valuing the gift of emotions that God has given you.

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Your emotions aren't God, but your emotions are good

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and you've got to control it.

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This thing wants to rage and take over your life.

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You've got to control the fire instead of allowing the fire

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and the heat to incinerate your life.

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God wants your entire life.

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He doesn't want your emotions to have your entire life.

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He wants your emotions to be healthy and to be in check.

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You do that, you learn how to harness this power,

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you're going to have a full life like you can't imagine.

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Now, let's take a look at a story

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from someone in our church who's having an impact.

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- Sew Masks for Cincy started from our small group.

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I called one of our friends that is a nurse at a local hospital.

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I said, "I can get a couple of people to get together

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to sew a couple of masks. What do you think?"

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And she said, "It would be amazing if you could get

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a couple people to sew some masks."

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The gravity of what is going on with Sew Masks for Cincy

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and Sew Masks for Humanity really hit me last night,

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to be honest, because I never expected to be leading a group like this.

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Like I thought it would be a dozen moms and sewers sewing these masks.

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And the fact that it's turned into more of a movement

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and getting contacts from now from cities all over America

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and the world has been nothing short of astounding.

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Look at all these people that came together out of love

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and out of community because we want to protect

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someone else's son or daughter or mother.

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It's been -- it's been absolutely life changing.

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- The key to controlling your mind and your emotions

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is what the Bible calls taking every thought captive.

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I want to teach you how to do that right now.

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So when we have an emotion that comes out,

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it's because we're feeling something.

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It's coming into our brain.

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It's causing us to have an emotional reaction.

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What we do is I grab it. I grab it.

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I take that thought captive.

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I say "Why am I feeling this way?"

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I grab it and I pull it away and I look at it

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and I say, "Why am I feeling this way?

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Am I feeling the way that I want to feel?

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What is this stimuli that's causing this reaction?

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Do I like this reaction or do I want to manage this reaction?"

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How do you actually do that?

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How do you take thoughts captive and control your thoughts

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instead of them controlling you and then controlling your emotions?

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One thing you do is you monitor what's coming into your mind

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that's giving you thoughts and emotions to begin with.

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You monitor your news feed.

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You monitor your social media feeds.

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You monitor who it is that's giving you information,

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because if someone is always firing us up, pun intended,

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if someone is always firing us up, we have to say, "Hold on.

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Do I want to constantly be fired up?

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Do I want to constantly feel indignation towards other people?

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Do I want to constantly be on edge?"

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I don't like that, I have to change my stimuli. Change it.

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The second thing you do is you choose

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to think about something other than yourself.

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Some of the most depressed people you'll ever know

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are those who think about themselves.

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If you want to be more depressed, think about yourself.

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I'm not talking about a kind of clinical depression

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where you need medication.

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I'm just saying, "I'm down. Woe is me."

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The more we think about ourselves and about our situation,

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the more our emotions are going to feed with on it.

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It's going to be a fire.

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It's like as we think about ourself,

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we keep putting more wood on the fire.

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We put more emotion that keeps bubbling us up.

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I have a friend of mine, a pastor friend in another country.

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His son got hit by a car.

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The doctor said, "We're going to operate,

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but it looks like your son's going to have permanent brain damage."

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As they sat in that hospital room,

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as any parent would, being devastated.

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As they felt themselves getting lower and lower and lower,

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they said each other, "Hey, we need to stop

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thinking about ourselves for a moment.

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We need to go around in this hospital

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and see other people who are hurting and pray for them."

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So that's what they did.

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What do you know?

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Was that the reason or was there some other reason,

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but their child is 100% fine today.

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And you can see the scar that comes all the way around him.

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You control what you think about

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and you can think about something else other than your problems.

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Some of the problems that we have

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are problems that may never come true.

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And if we give our emotions over to them,

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we're putting fuel on a fire that's never gonna cook any meat.

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Don't prepay interest on a debt you may likely never have.

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Jesus doesn't want my emotions getting out of control.

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And right now, I can choose that

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my emotions are not going to get out of control.

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The third thing we do is we pray.

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We invite God into it.

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If I'm just staying with my own mental resources,

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my own spiritual power, I'm going to get more and more stressed

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because I don't have the power to overcome my problems.

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There's a power that's outside of me,

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a power that can come inside of me

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when God fills me with his Holy Spirit,

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that gives me something that I couldn't have.

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So what I do is I pray about that.

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I say, "God, I'm feeling this way.

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How do you feel about that, God?

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God, I am stressed. I am hurting.

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Would you please comfort me?"

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There's entire Psalms, in fact,

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there's a whole book in the Bible called Lamentations,

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where people are just allowing their emotions to be processed

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and they're saying how they feel to God.

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It's OK. You can tell God that you are afraid.

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You can tell God that you're stressed.

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You can tell God that things are not going well.

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Tell Him. Talk to Him about that. Be silent before Him.

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You might just find that He comforts you.

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He gives you, as the Bible says, a peace that passes all understanding.

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I want to make sure you hear me really clearly.

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Emotions are really good. Emotions are great.

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They make us feel alive.

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They they bring spice to our life.

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It's just that we have to channel them.

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We have to take control of them.

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And you can take control of them.

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So many times there's things in the physical world

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that represent the spiritual world.

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Right here I have a fire that represents emotions.

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And I've been managing this fire.

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I've been controlling this fire to do something really good.

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I placed my wood in the right place.

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I want to get a little going a little bit more.

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What I'm doing here is I'm taking the energy

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that I am controlling, that I am bringing around

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to do something really, really good.

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Like what would that be good?

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That would be a venison backstrap, that's what that would be.

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That would be a backstrap that I have prepared

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to have an amazing meal.

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Had I had no fire, were I not controlling this fire,

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I would not be able to eat.

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I've got to get all that -- got to get all that goo out of there.

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That's what my dad used to call it, all the goo.

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Get that goo out of there. Yeah, right there.

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See how I just controlled that?

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Now, because I have been taking this energy

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and I've been controlling it, I'm going to have great meal.

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And had I not had this energy, I would have an awful meal.

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You need the energy of emotions in your life.

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If you don't have the energy of emotional life,

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you're not going to have good meals, but you have to control it

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because you don't want to burn your life.

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You don't want to crush your life.

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You can control your life. You can control your mind.

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You can control your emotions.

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Your emotions are a blessing from God.

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Use your emotions, don't let them use you.

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That's good.

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I have the emotional happiness right now.

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I get to have this because I controlled that fire.

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God is able to overcome our emotions.

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He cares about our feelings

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and He can turn them into something to be used for good.

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We're going to sing a song that helps me remember

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that God is an overcomer and He can handle all my thoughts

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and feelings even when they seem overwhelming.

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And while we see thoughts from real people in our community,

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this is a moment to turn over our feelings and emotions to our God.

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When I’m overwhelmed and shadowed with doubt

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You make a way

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In my brokenness where peace can’t be found

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You make a way

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You lift my head up

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You heal my soul

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I’m made new because of You

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Because of what You’ve done

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You’re the God who overcomes

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Painting grace upon my canvas of fears

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You make a way

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Draw me closer so you’re all that I hear

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You make a way, make a way

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You lift my head up

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You heal my soul

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Because of what You’ve done

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All my worries, all my doubts [You're the God who overcomes]

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I shake ‘em off and they’re falling down [You're the God who overcomes]

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All my fears, all my shame [You're the God who overcomes]

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I lay 'em down in Jesus’ name [You're the God who overcomes]

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You lift my head up

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You heal my soul

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Because of what You’ve done You’re the God who overcomes

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You lift my head up

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You heal my soul

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Because of what You’ve done You’re the God who overcomes

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You're the God who overcomes

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You're the God who overcomes

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- God, I thank you because just like we're singing

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when we're alone, when we're on our own, we're not alone.

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God, I ask that I'm even in the midst of our times

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of gathering like this that You would send Your Spirit,

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You would send the Comforter to meet us in the midst of these times.

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That even right now that we would find comfort,

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comfort in Your presence,

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comfort in the gathering of the body right now.

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Guys, it's so good worshiping with you.

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I love getting to do this.

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We do this actually not quite like this,

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but we still gather twice a day

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in the morning at 8:30 on Facebook

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you can go to Crossroads Church and at 7 p.m.

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So if you want to join us and thousands of other folks

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who are coming together, we'd love to have. Love to have you.

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- I love that we can still worship together at a time like this.

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And if you want to follow Crossroads music or hear more of it,

00:33:23

it's available on every streaming platform:

00:33:25

Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your music.

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Hey, if you heard something today and want some prayer

00:33:30

or want to talk with someone, don't forget,

00:33:31

you can do that at Crossroads.net.

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We also want to invite you to partner with us financially

00:33:37

or practice the spiritual discipline of giving.

00:33:38

You can do that at Crossroads.net/give.

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Join us next week where we're going to continue

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in our Mindset series.

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We're gonna be talking about the importance of community

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for processing our thoughts and emotions.

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We're all disconnected right now, but we're going to talk

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about the power of connecting with other people.

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And I promise I will not set myself on fire.

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