Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 64
Michael’s book is
available through:
Abiding Life Ministries
International
Littleton, Colorado
Notice: this email is part of a BLOG, called Getting Out of the
Wilderness. Why a blog? So that many can receive the weekly thoughts
I express on Michael’s writings in an easy manner.
The
“emotional hook” that the enemy gets in a Believer is one of the biggest tools
he uses to keep one in constant turmoil or defeat. Read today’s “lie” and see if you, or someone
you know, suffers from this battle. If
so, there is hope in the Lord…you can find victory from all that is shared on
this page.
Lie #7 – THE DECEPTION OF
LYING EMOTIONS
excerpt
from pages 185-186 of SIW (5th printing,
March 1998)
excerpt
from pages 187-188 of SIW (14th printing,
March 2012)
(used with permission from
ALMI):
As
we begin to experience the abiding life, our emotions will take their proper
place under the influence of the Spirit.
They will begin to express the life of Christ within and will no longer
exercise their influence from without, changing our perspective of ourselves
and the Lord from one moment to the next.
This situation is not pleasing to the enemy, for in dealing with the
defeated, he likes to use emotions to get them into the condition of feeling
out of fellowship with God, in the hope that with time such false feelings can
lead the believers to an ordeal of actually being out of fellowship. The enemy also knows that it is much easier
to perpetuate a lie in the emotions than in the mind.
Therefore,
it stands to reason that as the emotions are brought under the control of the
Spirit, the enemy will work in quiet, hidden, unnoticed ways to bring them back
under his influence. To do this, he uses
what I like to call “jumping time,” which is when our minds return to past
events that caused turmoil and our emotions are stirred afresh and applied to
the present.
For
example, when one is riding along in the automobile and his mind wanders to an
event in the past that caused great pain, embarrassment, or loss. As the event is vividly remembered, the
emotional turmoil associated with the occurrence also returns, and soon he
finds himself feeling today about an incident that took place years earlier. All of a sudden he is depressed and cannot
discern why, for his mind has by then moved on to another thought, but the
emotions stirred by the past experience have remained.
Many
who have suffered emotional hurts in the past are susceptible to this type of
attack from the enemy. It is important
to remember that if our emotions are not based upon something specific that we
can pinpoint the very moment that we are experiencing them, they are to be
rejected.
I’d
like to highlight several points from what Michael tells us:
1.
our minds and our emotions are two different parts of us that have great input
and
influence in our daily lives.
2.
our mind can make one “decision” and our emotions can make “another.”
3.
our mind can “move on” while our emotions “stay put.”
4.
the enemy is wise to all this…and he loves to work in that part of our life
that is
our emotions. (for far too long Christians have been ignorant of
this critical aspect of
dealing with “the past”)
5.
the “emotional hook” that the enemy sinks deep into one’s inner being is easily
jerked by him to remind and return us to
that spot of hurt, pain, and suffering.
6.
it is tragic that many in Christianity still have emotional hurts which render
them susceptible to attacks from the enemy…that
could have been eliminated
many years prior.
“Getting
Past The Past” is one of the most important ministries where Christian leaders can
help brothers and sisters in the Lord get the victory that is duly theirs in
Christ. It is a matter of believing and
receiving the “healing” of damaged emotions, and not just thinking time will
heal them. Time never does. God can and will.
I
would be happy to share some further insights into God’s healing of emotions
with anyone who wants this. Email me (address is below).
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