Hey, everybody. Okay, so we had talked on at the fireside chat on Thursday about negative
emotions. Someone had brought that up and we talked about the importance of just letting
of not stifling them and suppressing them and actually just letting them come up and
out and how important it was to kind of like feel them all the way through to their fullness.
It doesn't mean that we should sit there and like like kind of wallow in it. We don't want
to do that because you don't want to feed something and you don't want to use your emotions,
feed your emotions to make them stronger and then just kind of like prolong them. We definitely
don't want to do that. But what we do, but it is important to just kind of let them it
when I say let them come to their fullness, meaning like don't stifle them, stop them.
If they're coming up, let them come up and let them finish, right? And and here's why
you remember that we're already in a in a state of rest, right? But if we're not acting
like we're in the state of rest and we don't see that manifesting in our lives, it means
that we're in an active state of resistance against our natural state because our natural
state is to see the evidence and the manifestation of the fruits of the spirit in our lives.
It's to exhibit the character of the Lord. It's to express the Lord. It's it's to believe
our father. It's to love our fathers, have faith in our father, etc. All of that is natural
for us. So if what is natural for the new man is not what we're seeing in our lives,
it means that we're in an unnatural state and it means that we're resisting our natural
state. So that my so in order to shift into rest in order to kind of revert back to our
natural state, we have to stop the resistance. We have to actually let go. And that's why
I'm saying that it's important for us, you know, along that same principle to allow ourselves
to feel those negative those negative emotions all the way through to their fullness is because
what we've been we need to allow the process to go ahead and go through. I'm sorry. It's
very loud all of a sudden because all of these kids are outside playing because it's them.
Say I'm on a lake and it's Sunday evening. So obviously families with their kids are
are walking riding bikes because it's a really lovely evening. But we have to let those negative
emotions up and out because they're going through a process kind of like detoxing where
there's some process that the Lord is taking us through that those emotions that not those
emotions the things that that are anchored that those emotions are pointing us to some
belief that we have or whatever is is poisoning us because it's some lies that we're believing
and and and God is and they've been prompted somehow by through a process that the Lord
is taking us through some trigger that we've been experiencing, you know, that something
that your spouse said or that your or that your children said to you or that you someone
something they experienced in the grocery store or maybe you were just all by yourself. You
started remembering memories from the past or you got frustrated because you couldn't get
everything done today that you had, you know, set yourself up to whatever it is. There is
those situations are triggering some belief that we have down in us and and that our emotions,
you know, our you know, our emotions are indicative that are revealing to us is there and so we're
feeling the emotion because that that unbelief is trying to come to the surface so that God
can reveal it to us and we can just deal with it. In other words that we can come out of agreement
with it because the reason that it's there is that we're in agreement with it. So we're trying
to come out of agreement with it anyway. So part of what's kind of like attached to that unbelief
is this feeling that that's just simply letting us know that that unbelief thing that unbelief is
there. Point is if we're feeling that feeling it means that they're that that unbelief is going
through a process in which we're getting being given opportunity for it to come out of the dark
come into the light and then for us to finally let it go, right? And so with that, you know,
in order to kind of as part of the process of like letting the unbelief go we need to kind of
we can't feel the unbelief but we can feel the feeling attached to the unbelief, right?
So you let that feeling come up so that that and hopefully the unbelief that we're trying
to deal with at the same time will come up. We choose to come out of agreement with the thing
and then both the feeling and the aspect of unbelief leave. What we don't want to do is do
what we've been doing this entire, you know, what we've been doing, you know, all of our lives
up to this point which is stifling those negative feelings thinking.
I'm not supposed to feel those feeling them is a sin feeling them means that there's something bad
About me or wrong with me or whatever and then we try to stifle it, right?
But remember that that is resisting something and we don't need to be resisting those things
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
So anyway, that's the whole process and that's why I was that's what I was saying in the uh
In the fireside chat on thursday, but what I wanted to explain here because the question a follow-up question was asked
so i'm just supposed to
Ride these negative emotions and the impression that I got from that was this
The was that the question was being asked
Are we just supposed to like sit in that negativity and just allow ourselves to just like just feel?
Awful and depressed and I don't know hopeless or despondent or discouraged or
or
You know bad about myself or whatever and no, no, no that that's not it's not the point
The point is not to sit and wallow in it
We definitely don't want to feed it and and use those feelings to reaffirm to us that something is true
Well, I feel this way and therefore that's affirming to me that whatever it is that i'm believing is really true
No, that's hogwash. You know, all it is is it's indicating to you that you believe it
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
um
So anyway, what do you actually so what what do you actually do with it like in like in the process?
You're not just like sitting in it and just allowing yourself to just sit around and feel these feelings
The whole thing is we're talking about something's triggered
You just don't want to stifle that feeling you want to allow it to come up
You want to face it?
You want to let it come up ride to its fullness and then and then eventually, um, it'll it'll begin to dissipate
What will help it dissipate?
faster
And what will help help it dissipate eventually, um, you know, just period
is coming out of agreement with the belief that that
Emotion is pointing you to and letting you know you have
That's that's what it is that you should be doing while you're having this while you're having this emotion
The point isn't the emotion
The point the reason that you have that emotion and the reason that that emotion will continue to come back
Continue to rise back up is if you continue to believe the thing
So in order to stop feeling like that
You know not just now but just like you know
permanently
Is to actually deal with the unbelief that the emotion is simply letting you know is there?
um
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
with that
belief with that and with that unbelief
Sorry, i'm trying to make sure I say this in a way that's um simple and not confusing
So I don't need to be mixing and phrases
But you want to come out of agreement with that unbelief
uh, and uh, so simply
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
From this I want
God to come in and make me feel different. I want it to be proven to me
While i'm feeling this way
that
That what god says really is true and that is going to change how I feel
And so let me just tell you that what god's waiting for
And what your life is waiting for and what you've been waiting for actually is you
You're the one
Who has to choose
That what it is that you're believing really isn't true
And that that belief that unbelief
Um and really in relationship to god is not true
so
I'm afraid
That it's in a manner of speaking. Sure. God can do anything and he does the miraculous
But remember that the miraculous in the way that we like to think of it
It's like him just coming in and doing something and we don't do anything
Is not the norm
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
Now though you have to choose to receive it so what we're waiting on really is us
We're waiting on us to actually come out of agreement with that with that unbelief of that
As we're being triggered and we're feeling this negative emotion
We really do have to face the thing
And choose to let it go
um and because
If, in a manner of speaking, if we are waiting for something to come along to prove it, to
prove us otherwise and to change the situation for us, to change, um, to change the evidence
that we see in our lives or in the situation, um, to change that for us, we're going to
be waiting for forever.
We're going to stay a victim and in bondage to simply our own belief.
We're simply going to be enslaved to something that actually isn't real and isn't true.
But we think that it is, and so, anyway, um, so hopefully that's helpful, uh, if the, when,
when feeling the negative emotion, remember, all you're doing is you're not stifling it
down thinking, I shouldn't be feeling this way.
What can I do to stop feeling this way?
You know, take the opportunity to face the, the, the unbelief that the negative emotion
is attached to and choose to come out of agreement with that, uh, and then that negative emotion
can come up and out and I am telling you because I've done it, I've done it so many
times that I, you know, literally countless times that when you come out of agreement,
the negative emotion leaves immediately, not tomorrow, not after, well, immediately.
Now one of the things is that if it kind of like dissipates over bit by bit, like I'm
coming out of agreement now.
Okay.
Well, I'm feeling a little better.
I feel a little more shifted into rest or whatever.
You know, I take a little bit more, a little bit more shifted into rest, et cetera.
But once I, but to what degree I am coming out of agreement with that, that unbelief
and I'm coming into agreement with what God says to that same degree, I shift into rest
to that same degree that negative emotion releases immediately.
So if I only come into agreement with him this much, then this much of the negative
emotion will leave.
But if I come out of agreement with him this much, then I mean, come out of agreement with
the unbelief and into agreement with him this much, then this much of the negative emotion
leaves immediately, immediately.
You're not feeling the way that you're feeling for no good reason.
It's attached to a belief and if you no longer believe that thing, meaning like it's attached
to an unbelief, if you're no longer in agreement with that unbelief, the emotion no longer
has any, how do you put that?
It has no, there's a picture I am trying to grab and explain in order to say it in a way
that will hopefully help it, unfortunately I'm missing it at the moment, but it's got
nothing to hold on to, it's got nothing to feed it, it literally is getting its existence
from the other's existence, so if the other doesn't exist, poof, immediately the emotion
doesn't exist, immediately.
It can't exist on its own.
It's simply letting you know something's there, as soon as it's not there anymore, it's got
nothing to point to, kind of thing.
So, anyway, that's how you let go of the negative emotions.
We'll be talking, as you go through the teaching, you'll be learning more and more about the
principles and the tools that you can use in order to let things go.
First and foremost, the foundation to everything, by the way, those tools won't work if you
don't get these first two things, and that is the fact that for God so loved the world,
for God so loved you, that he gave you Jesus, and that if you believed in Jesus, in other
words, if you accept Jesus into your heart, and you accept him in the power of the gospel,
then you are unified with him, and you have therefore eternal life.
So that is the foundation of everything, that is the place for rest, that is how you shift
into rest.
If you believe the gospels to the degree that God mentions in John 3.16, you'll be in rest
for the rest of your life without knowing any of these other tools that we'll be talking
about.
But, you know, in order to help you, you get those foundations, you choose those foundations,
and then, okay, therefore that means no shame and no condemnation, therefore that means
no judgment, which is another thing that we talked about at the Riverside Chat on Thursday.
So, anyway, hopefully this helps, and let me know, and I will talk to y'all tonight.