WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.680 Hey, everybody. Okay, so we had talked on at the fireside chat on Thursday about negative 2 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:13.400 emotions. Someone had brought that up and we talked about the importance of just letting 3 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:17.480 of not stifling them and suppressing them and actually just letting them come up and 4 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:23.400 out and how important it was to kind of like feel them all the way through to their fullness. 5 00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:29.640 It doesn't mean that we should sit there and like like kind of wallow in it. We don't want 6 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:35.560 to do that because you don't want to feed something and you don't want to use your emotions, 7 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:40.840 feed your emotions to make them stronger and then just kind of like prolong them. We definitely 8 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:48.800 don't want to do that. But what we do, but it is important to just kind of let them it 9 00:00:48.800 --> 00:00:53.880 when I say let them come to their fullness, meaning like don't stifle them, stop them. 10 00:00:53.880 --> 00:01:01.320 If they're coming up, let them come up and let them finish, right? And and here's why 11 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:07.840 you remember that we're already in a in a state of rest, right? But if we're not acting 12 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:11.280 like we're in the state of rest and we don't see that manifesting in our lives, it means 13 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:17.680 that we're in an active state of resistance against our natural state because our natural 14 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:23.400 state is to see the evidence and the manifestation of the fruits of the spirit in our lives. 15 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:27.560 It's to exhibit the character of the Lord. It's to express the Lord. It's it's to believe 16 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:32.560 our father. It's to love our fathers, have faith in our father, etc. All of that is natural 17 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:38.440 for us. So if what is natural for the new man is not what we're seeing in our lives, 18 00:01:38.440 --> 00:01:45.840 it means that we're in an unnatural state and it means that we're resisting our natural 19 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:52.520 state. So that my so in order to shift into rest in order to kind of revert back to our 20 00:01:52.520 --> 00:01:59.240 natural state, we have to stop the resistance. We have to actually let go. And that's why 21 00:01:59.240 --> 00:02:04.520 I'm saying that it's important for us, you know, along that same principle to allow ourselves 22 00:02:04.520 --> 00:02:09.440 to feel those negative those negative emotions all the way through to their fullness is because 23 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:13.640 what we've been we need to allow the process to go ahead and go through. I'm sorry. It's 24 00:02:13.640 --> 00:02:19.400 very loud all of a sudden because all of these kids are outside playing because it's them. 25 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:25.080 Say I'm on a lake and it's Sunday evening. So obviously families with their kids are 26 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:31.000 are walking riding bikes because it's a really lovely evening. But we have to let those negative 27 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:36.680 emotions up and out because they're going through a process kind of like detoxing where 28 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:42.440 there's some process that the Lord is taking us through that those emotions that not those 29 00:02:42.440 --> 00:02:47.560 emotions the things that that are anchored that those emotions are pointing us to some 30 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:53.160 belief that we have or whatever is is poisoning us because it's some lies that we're believing 31 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:59.480 and and and God is and they've been prompted somehow by through a process that the Lord 32 00:02:59.480 --> 00:03:03.720 is taking us through some trigger that we've been experiencing, you know, that something 33 00:03:03.720 --> 00:03:08.760 that your spouse said or that your or that your children said to you or that you someone 34 00:03:08.760 --> 00:03:12.440 something they experienced in the grocery store or maybe you were just all by yourself. You 35 00:03:12.440 --> 00:03:17.000 started remembering memories from the past or you got frustrated because you couldn't get 36 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:23.880 everything done today that you had, you know, set yourself up to whatever it is. There is 37 00:03:23.880 --> 00:03:30.840 those situations are triggering some belief that we have down in us and and that our emotions, 38 00:03:31.480 --> 00:03:37.160 you know, our you know, our emotions are indicative that are revealing to us is there and so we're 39 00:03:37.160 --> 00:03:42.120 feeling the emotion because that that unbelief is trying to come to the surface so that God 40 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:47.800 can reveal it to us and we can just deal with it. In other words that we can come out of agreement 41 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:52.200 with it because the reason that it's there is that we're in agreement with it. So we're trying 42 00:03:52.200 --> 00:03:58.120 to come out of agreement with it anyway. So part of what's kind of like attached to that unbelief 43 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:03.240 is this feeling that that's just simply letting us know that that unbelief thing that unbelief is 44 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:08.680 there. Point is if we're feeling that feeling it means that they're that that unbelief is going 45 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:13.720 through a process in which we're getting being given opportunity for it to come out of the dark 46 00:04:13.720 --> 00:04:20.440 come into the light and then for us to finally let it go, right? And so with that, you know, 47 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:27.480 in order to kind of as part of the process of like letting the unbelief go we need to kind of 48 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:32.040 we can't feel the unbelief but we can feel the feeling attached to the unbelief, right? 49 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:39.000 So you let that feeling come up so that that and hopefully the unbelief that we're trying 50 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:44.280 to deal with at the same time will come up. We choose to come out of agreement with the thing 51 00:04:45.640 --> 00:04:52.120 and then both the feeling and the aspect of unbelief leave. What we don't want to do is do 52 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:56.520 what we've been doing this entire, you know, what we've been doing, you know, all of our lives 53 00:04:56.520 --> 00:04:59.880 up to this point which is stifling those negative feelings thinking. 54 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:07.280 I'm not supposed to feel those feeling them is a sin feeling them means that there's something bad 55 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:12.400 About me or wrong with me or whatever and then we try to stifle it, right? 56 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:18.880 But remember that that is resisting something and we don't need to be resisting those things 57 00:05:18.880 --> 00:05:24.080 We need to be letting it go and allowing the thing to come up and out so we can come out of agreement with it 58 00:05:24.640 --> 00:05:31.120 So anyway, that's the whole process and that's why I was that's what I was saying in the uh 59 00:05:31.200 --> 00:05:37.200 In the fireside chat on thursday, but what I wanted to explain here because the question a follow-up question was asked 60 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:39.360 so i'm just supposed to 61 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:43.840 Ride these negative emotions and the impression that I got from that was this 62 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:46.640 The was that the question was being asked 63 00:05:47.280 --> 00:05:53.920 Are we just supposed to like sit in that negativity and just allow ourselves to just like just feel? 64 00:05:54.080 --> 00:05:59.280 Awful and depressed and I don't know hopeless or despondent or discouraged or 65 00:05:59.920 --> 00:06:00.960 or 66 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:06.640 You know bad about myself or whatever and no, no, no that that's not it's not the point 67 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:09.760 The point is not to sit and wallow in it 68 00:06:09.760 --> 00:06:16.560 We definitely don't want to feed it and and use those feelings to reaffirm to us that something is true 69 00:06:17.280 --> 00:06:23.440 Well, I feel this way and therefore that's affirming to me that whatever it is that i'm believing is really true 70 00:06:23.520 --> 00:06:27.840 No, that's hogwash. You know, all it is is it's indicating to you that you believe it 71 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:35.680 It's not telling you and trying and it can't reveal any type of truth to you about whether or not what you're believing is accurate 72 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:37.360 um 73 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:44.160 So anyway, what do you actually so what what do you actually do with it like in like in the process? 74 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:49.840 You're not just like sitting in it and just allowing yourself to just sit around and feel these feelings 75 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:53.300 The whole thing is we're talking about something's triggered 76 00:06:54.080 --> 00:06:57.200 You just don't want to stifle that feeling you want to allow it to come up 77 00:06:57.600 --> 00:06:58.720 You want to face it? 78 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:05.840 You want to let it come up ride to its fullness and then and then eventually, um, it'll it'll begin to dissipate 79 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:08.400 What will help it dissipate? 80 00:07:08.620 --> 00:07:10.240 faster 81 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:13.760 And what will help help it dissipate eventually, um, you know, just period 82 00:07:14.400 --> 00:07:17.280 is coming out of agreement with the belief that that 83 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:21.600 Emotion is pointing you to and letting you know you have 84 00:07:22.960 --> 00:07:29.120 That's that's what it is that you should be doing while you're having this while you're having this emotion 85 00:07:29.760 --> 00:07:31.760 The point isn't the emotion 86 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:36.880 The point the reason that you have that emotion and the reason that that emotion will continue to come back 87 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:41.440 Continue to rise back up is if you continue to believe the thing 88 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:44.560 So in order to stop feeling like that 89 00:07:45.520 --> 00:07:48.240 You know not just now but just like you know 90 00:07:49.020 --> 00:07:50.400 permanently 91 00:07:50.400 --> 00:07:56.000 Is to actually deal with the unbelief that the emotion is simply letting you know is there? 92 00:07:57.280 --> 00:07:58.720 um 93 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:04.420 Anyway, and so what it is that you're going to want to do is you're going to want to want to come out of agreement 94 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:05.840 with that 95 00:08:05.840 --> 00:08:08.400 belief with that and with that unbelief 96 00:08:08.960 --> 00:08:13.120 Sorry, i'm trying to make sure I say this in a way that's um simple and not confusing 97 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:15.360 So I don't need to be mixing and phrases 98 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:19.620 But you want to come out of agreement with that unbelief 99 00:08:20.640 --> 00:08:23.200 uh, and uh, so simply 100 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:30.320 I know that we feel a particular way and while we're in the feeling we're like, you know what I just want to be saved 101 00:08:30.880 --> 00:08:32.559 From this I want 102 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:37.360 God to come in and make me feel different. I want it to be proven to me 103 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:40.000 While i'm feeling this way 104 00:08:40.640 --> 00:08:42.080 that 105 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:47.440 That what god says really is true and that is going to change how I feel 106 00:08:48.160 --> 00:08:51.280 And so let me just tell you that what god's waiting for 107 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:57.440 And what your life is waiting for and what you've been waiting for actually is you 108 00:08:58.800 --> 00:09:00.160 You're the one 109 00:09:00.160 --> 00:09:02.160 Who has to choose 110 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:05.280 That what it is that you're believing really isn't true 111 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:08.180 And that that belief that unbelief 112 00:09:08.500 --> 00:09:13.300 Um and really in relationship to god is not true 113 00:09:14.020 --> 00:09:14.900 so 114 00:09:14.900 --> 00:09:16.260 I'm afraid 115 00:09:16.260 --> 00:09:20.740 That it's in a manner of speaking. Sure. God can do anything and he does the miraculous 116 00:09:20.820 --> 00:09:23.940 But remember that the miraculous in the way that we like to think of it 117 00:09:23.940 --> 00:09:26.660 It's like him just coming in and doing something and we don't do anything 118 00:09:27.220 --> 00:09:29.220 Is not the norm 119 00:09:30.100 --> 00:09:36.500 What is usual is he's saying no i've already given you everything i've already done the miraculous i've already done everything for you 120 00:09:37.060 --> 00:09:41.700 Now though you have to choose to receive it so what we're waiting on really is us 121 00:09:42.420 --> 00:09:47.700 We're waiting on us to actually come out of agreement with that with that unbelief of that 122 00:09:47.940 --> 00:09:50.980 As we're being triggered and we're feeling this negative emotion 123 00:09:51.620 --> 00:09:53.860 We really do have to face the thing 124 00:09:54.740 --> 00:09:56.740 And choose to let it go 125 00:09:57.460 --> 00:09:59.460 um and because 126 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:07.800 If, in a manner of speaking, if we are waiting for something to come along to prove it, to 127 00:10:07.800 --> 00:10:17.400 prove us otherwise and to change the situation for us, to change, um, to change the evidence 128 00:10:17.400 --> 00:10:23.560 that we see in our lives or in the situation, um, to change that for us, we're going to 129 00:10:23.560 --> 00:10:25.520 be waiting for forever. 130 00:10:25.520 --> 00:10:34.200 We're going to stay a victim and in bondage to simply our own belief. 131 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:44.080 We're simply going to be enslaved to something that actually isn't real and isn't true. 132 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:54.020 But we think that it is, and so, anyway, um, so hopefully that's helpful, uh, if the, when, 133 00:10:54.020 --> 00:10:59.460 when feeling the negative emotion, remember, all you're doing is you're not stifling it 134 00:10:59.460 --> 00:11:01.820 down thinking, I shouldn't be feeling this way. 135 00:11:01.820 --> 00:11:04.460 What can I do to stop feeling this way? 136 00:11:04.460 --> 00:11:12.920 You know, take the opportunity to face the, the, the unbelief that the negative emotion 137 00:11:12.920 --> 00:11:20.380 is attached to and choose to come out of agreement with that, uh, and then that negative emotion 138 00:11:20.380 --> 00:11:24.940 can come up and out and I am telling you because I've done it, I've done it so many 139 00:11:24.940 --> 00:11:30.100 times that I, you know, literally countless times that when you come out of agreement, 140 00:11:30.100 --> 00:11:38.100 the negative emotion leaves immediately, not tomorrow, not after, well, immediately. 141 00:11:38.100 --> 00:11:47.900 Now one of the things is that if it kind of like dissipates over bit by bit, like I'm 142 00:11:47.900 --> 00:11:48.900 coming out of agreement now. 143 00:11:48.900 --> 00:11:49.900 Okay. 144 00:11:49.900 --> 00:11:50.900 Well, I'm feeling a little better. 145 00:11:50.900 --> 00:11:51.900 I feel a little more shifted into rest or whatever. 146 00:11:51.900 --> 00:11:57.340 You know, I take a little bit more, a little bit more shifted into rest, et cetera. 147 00:11:57.340 --> 00:12:04.220 But once I, but to what degree I am coming out of agreement with that, that unbelief 148 00:12:04.220 --> 00:12:09.860 and I'm coming into agreement with what God says to that same degree, I shift into rest 149 00:12:09.860 --> 00:12:14.980 to that same degree that negative emotion releases immediately. 150 00:12:14.980 --> 00:12:21.260 So if I only come into agreement with him this much, then this much of the negative 151 00:12:21.260 --> 00:12:22.260 emotion will leave. 152 00:12:22.260 --> 00:12:28.260 But if I come out of agreement with him this much, then I mean, come out of agreement with 153 00:12:28.260 --> 00:12:32.700 the unbelief and into agreement with him this much, then this much of the negative emotion 154 00:12:32.700 --> 00:12:37.140 leaves immediately, immediately. 155 00:12:37.140 --> 00:12:40.700 You're not feeling the way that you're feeling for no good reason. 156 00:12:40.700 --> 00:12:45.340 It's attached to a belief and if you no longer believe that thing, meaning like it's attached 157 00:12:45.340 --> 00:12:50.740 to an unbelief, if you're no longer in agreement with that unbelief, the emotion no longer 158 00:12:50.740 --> 00:12:55.380 has any, how do you put that? 159 00:12:55.380 --> 00:13:07.300 It has no, there's a picture I am trying to grab and explain in order to say it in a way 160 00:13:07.540 --> 00:13:14.300 that will hopefully help it, unfortunately I'm missing it at the moment, but it's got 161 00:13:14.300 --> 00:13:19.180 nothing to hold on to, it's got nothing to feed it, it literally is getting its existence 162 00:13:19.180 --> 00:13:24.060 from the other's existence, so if the other doesn't exist, poof, immediately the emotion 163 00:13:24.060 --> 00:13:26.940 doesn't exist, immediately. 164 00:13:26.940 --> 00:13:30.500 It can't exist on its own. 165 00:13:30.500 --> 00:13:34.300 It's simply letting you know something's there, as soon as it's not there anymore, it's got 166 00:13:34.300 --> 00:13:38.100 nothing to point to, kind of thing. 167 00:13:38.100 --> 00:13:42.860 So, anyway, that's how you let go of the negative emotions. 168 00:13:42.860 --> 00:13:47.260 We'll be talking, as you go through the teaching, you'll be learning more and more about the 169 00:13:47.260 --> 00:13:51.260 principles and the tools that you can use in order to let things go. 170 00:13:51.260 --> 00:13:55.460 First and foremost, the foundation to everything, by the way, those tools won't work if you 171 00:13:55.460 --> 00:14:02.300 don't get these first two things, and that is the fact that for God so loved the world, 172 00:14:02.300 --> 00:14:07.780 for God so loved you, that he gave you Jesus, and that if you believed in Jesus, in other 173 00:14:07.780 --> 00:14:11.900 words, if you accept Jesus into your heart, and you accept him in the power of the gospel, 174 00:14:11.900 --> 00:14:16.340 then you are unified with him, and you have therefore eternal life. 175 00:14:16.340 --> 00:14:21.660 So that is the foundation of everything, that is the place for rest, that is how you shift 176 00:14:21.660 --> 00:14:22.660 into rest. 177 00:14:22.660 --> 00:14:28.060 If you believe the gospels to the degree that God mentions in John 3.16, you'll be in rest 178 00:14:28.060 --> 00:14:30.980 for the rest of your life without knowing any of these other tools that we'll be talking 179 00:14:30.980 --> 00:14:31.980 about. 180 00:14:31.980 --> 00:14:37.020 But, you know, in order to help you, you get those foundations, you choose those foundations, 181 00:14:37.020 --> 00:14:41.980 and then, okay, therefore that means no shame and no condemnation, therefore that means 182 00:14:41.980 --> 00:14:47.580 no judgment, which is another thing that we talked about at the Riverside Chat on Thursday. 183 00:14:47.580 --> 00:14:54.940 So, anyway, hopefully this helps, and let me know, and I will talk to y'all tonight.