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You thought you had leaned how to handle such crisis in the past, but now you realize there is so much more to learn about yourself. To be really honest about it, you feel blah! You feel down! You feel strange! You feel confused! You feel helpless! You feel like you haven't learned anything - that you are still a bundle of mistakes! You feel unworthy! You feel like you are wasting time! You feel unloving! You feel dejected! You feel misunderstood, forsaken! You feel angry that you feel so helpless and blue! You feel discouraged because you are still the victim of childish pouting. Without warning, without any reason you can think of - you are thinking and feeling something entirely different. Maybe it crept over you in the middle of the day. Maybe the cloud was there when you work up. Your faith was alive with hope you encouraged others you felt spiritually strong revelation truth excited your soul! But today, just hours later, the picture has changed. Perhaps just yesterday, you had marvelous thoughts of God's power and love.
They are like dark, broken glasses that distort everything you look at. They will put on you a fear of cancer, fear of dying, fear of losing a loved one - and a world of other overwhelming fears. Your feelings, when in control, will lie to you like the devil himself. Your feelings, if left unchecked and permitted to run roughshod over your spirit, can drag you down into abject despair and fearfulness. If you allow it to happen, feelings have a way of draining your confidence in the Lord, and in yourself. You will probably do as I do and end up thinking to yourself - "How could I feel so low, so weak, so immature, so stupid - how did I turn from hot to cold so quickly? What's bothering me? What's making me act so un-Christlike? You may then feel condemned you may even feel sinful and immature. As much as you hate it - you will find yourself short tempered, cutting off your loved ones and those you work with - and perhaps even raising your voice at your husband, wife, or children. An inexplicable irritability is the first sign of this buffeting from Satan. When it hits you, everything seems distorted for a while. I don't care how saintly you are, or how much faith or revelation of truth you may have - there comes to all God's children this humbling experience of falling into a dry, depressing time of confusion. I say to my heart, "Why am I cast down, O my soul? Why am I suddenly disquieted in spirit? Shy so restless and irritable - when I don't want to be? What evil thing have I done to deserve these negative, depressing feelings?"ĭear reader - have you never known such a phenomenon in your life, when peace and happiness are suddenly disrupted and you are cast down into the very pit of despair? Have you never prayed - "Oh, God, why am I feeling like I do? Why such a heavy, sad, fearful cloud hanging over me? What's wrong - have I brought it upon myself by something I've done." When the enemy comes in like a flood, trying to drown me in depressing feelings and negative thoughts, I have a tendency to blame myself.
Often, these mental buffetings come upon me right after some great spiritual victory or revelation. It seems as though the wicked principalities and powers of hell choose to buffet me with unwanted negative feelings when I least expect them. I did nothing to deserve these evil messengers of Satan.
Suddenly, unexpectedly I am overwhelmed with troubled feelings that flood my mind that spirit. I can be walking along in the Spirit, reading my Bible, praying and loving the Lord with all my heart. I have come to recognize all unsettling feelings as messengers of Satan, intended to bring me down into despair and fear. My feelings have discouraged me many times they've tried to deceive me they've tried to rob me of my peace and joy in Christ and they have harassed and accused me of every evil thing possible. I would have given up long ago had I given in to my feelings. I am so glad my feelings have no meaning I am even more grateful they do not affect my salvation or my relationship to the Lord.
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