Next Level Emotions-Part I

I.                   GOD WANTS US ON OUR NEXT LEVEL.

Ephesians 4 is next Level Chapter

1.    Walk Worthy of the Vocation wherewith you were called. v.1

2.    Every one given grace according to measure of Gift of Christ.  v.7

3.    Christ went up on high to give us gifts. v.8

4.    He gave Office Gifts for perfecting the saints. v.12

5.    Unto the measure of stature of the fullness of Christ. v.13

6.    Unto rootedness no more tossed to and fro. v.14

7.    Walk not as others walk. v.17.

8.    Be renewed in the Spirit of your mind. v.23

II.                IMPORTANCE OF EMOTIONS.

1.    Trichotomy of Man.  1 Thessalonians 5:23

Spirit God Consciousness

Body World Consciousness

Soul (Emotions) Bridge the two

a.    Our Brains are made to prioritize emotions.

b.    Electrical Signals enter your brain at the base near the spinal cord, but must travel to your frontal lobe (behind your forehead) before reaching the place where rational, logical thinking takes place.

c.     They pass the limbic system before reaching the frontal lobe. (Place where emotions are produced)

d.    You experience things emotionally before reasoning joins in. (you feel before you comprehend)

e.    The rational brain can’t stop the limbic system but they work together.

f.     We must learn to recognize emotions in us and others and use them to manage our behavior.

2.    Believers have been taught to neglect emotions

3.    Satan seeks to exploit and damage the soul hindering God’s plan for your life.  

4.    Jesus came to bring Rest unto our souls.

Matthew 11:28

²⁸ Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

III.             NEXT LEVEL EMOTIONS.

Ephesians 4:25-32

²⁵ Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. ²⁶ Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: ²⁷ Neither give place to the devil. ²⁸ Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. ²⁹ Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good ^fto the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. ³⁰ And ⁱgrieve not ^kthe holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and ^pevil speaking, be put away from you, with all ^qmalice: ³² And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, ^tforgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

1.    Authenticity – “Put away lying” “speak truth”

a.    Being able to face and deal with reality.

b.    Being more concerned about what’s real that what people think is real

c.     We lie to cover up shame, falsehood…not to look bad.

d.    Doesn’t reject wisdom. We are to be wise in when, how and even if to share.

e.    Doesn’t mean you can’t be flexible to serve others.

1 Corinthians 9:19-22 

2.    Controlled Anger

Ephesians 4:26

²⁶ Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: ²⁷ Neither give place to the devil.

                    Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools     

Proverbs 16:32

³² He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 19:11

          The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; And it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

                   a.    Resolve the issue when/if you can.

                   b.    Forget it when you can’t.

                   c.     Use scripture when you are weak.

Wrath gives place to the Devil…

Neither give place to the devil (μηδε διδοτε τοπον τῳ διαβολῳ [mēde didote topon tōi diabolōi]). Present active imperative in prohibition, either stop doing it or do not have the habit. See Rom. 12:19 for this idiom.

3.    Personal Responsibility.- (Stealing is trying to get something without paying the price.)

         Entitlement Mentality.

         Mindset that you deserve more than you earn.

         Blame Game.

4.    Clean Speech issuing from a Clean Heart (saprós); to rot. Bad, rotten, putrid.

Luke 6:45

⁴⁵ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the a bundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

                   Communication that tears down.

                   Communication that’s Revengeful.

                   Communication that’s meant to cut.

lupéō; contracted lupṓ, fut. lupḗsō, from lúpē (3077), sorrow. Trans. to grieve, afflict with sorrow

IV.            HOW TO DEVELOP NEXT LEVEL EMOTIONS?

1.    Awareness they are hindering you.

2.    Ask God to help you and heal you.

3.    Acknowledge your faults to those close to you and ask for prayer.

 James 5:16

¹⁶ Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual ^yfervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

4.    Ask God to show you WHY you react this way.

5.    Learn and rehearse scripture contrary to negative emotions.

Psalm 1:1-3

Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; ² But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. ³        He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.

6.    Stay in Faith.

Next Level Thinking

1 Chronicles 4:9

⁹ And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. ¹⁰ And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

Numbers 13:27-33

“…We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. ²⁸ Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. ²⁹ The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” ³⁰ Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” ³¹ But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” ³² And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. ³³ There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

Numbers 14:11; 26-30

¹¹ Then the Lord said to Moses: “How long will these people reject Me? And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them? ^…26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ²⁷ “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. ²⁸ Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: ²⁹ The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. ³⁰ Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.

I.                   GOD’S RELEASE IN 2016.

1.     Bless Indeed – Barak (Pronounce a Blessing). 

2.     Enlarge Coast.

3.     Hand With Me.  

a.     Isaac when famine hit the land. (100 fold Harvest in Famine).

b.     Jacob when Esau was ready to kill him. 

c.      Moses when called to bring Israel out of Egypt.

d.     Joshua parted the Jordan.    

e.      Gideon – 300 men.

                   Isaiah 41:10

¹⁰ Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

         

4.     Keep From Evil.

a.     Spiritual Evil.

b.     Natural Evil.

c.      Self-Inflicted Evil.

II.                OUR BEAUTIFUL MIND AND FREE WILL.

1.    We are the summation of complex programming.

a.    Personality From God.

b.    Natural Gifting from God.

c.     Life Experiences Shape our Habits.

d.    Our Habits determine our Destiny.

III.             OUR PART IN 2016

1.    God Action.

2.    Personal Action.   

                   Romans 12:1-2

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ² And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

         

                   Proverbs 23:7

                   For as he thinks in his heart, so is he…

Joshua 1:8

⁸ This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

a.    See (Think) Something Different.

b.    Write your new Reality.

c.     Say Something Different.

d.    Keep Seeing and Saying Something Different Until You Believe Something different.

 After you write it, you can start reading it.

 When you start reading it, you’ll be able to start saying it.

 When you start saying it, you start hearing it.

 When you start hearing it, you start to believe it.

 When you believe it, things begin to change.

 When things begin to change, you will understand and

believe.

IV.            MAKING IT PLAIN.

1.    Decide what the Bad Habits are.

2.    Determine your new Program.

3.    Write it Down.

4.    Say it every day twice a Day .

5.    Pray it Every Day Twice a Day.

Keys to Your Next Level

I.                  GOD IS COMMITTED TO OUR NEXT LEVEL.

2 Corinthians 3:18

¹⁸ But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 16:9

⁹ For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.

Remember the Parable of Talents

II.                 NEXT LEVEL IN GOD IS CIRCULAR NOT LINEAR.

1.   Israel in the Wilderness.

2.   Israel under the Judges.

III.            WE WILL BE TESTED PRIOR TO PROMOTION.

1.   Blessing can’t mean more to you than God.

2.   You must be fit enough to handle the pressures and warfare of the next level.

3.   You must earn the right to stand in that new level of authority. 

IV.           WE MUST MEET THE SAME TEST/CONDITIONS ON THE WAY UP BUT WE ADDRESS THEM FROM A HIGHER POSITION.

1.   More Knowledge of the Temptation.

2.   More Knowledge of How God Helped you last time.

3.   More knowledge of Heavens Encouragement. 

V.              HOW TO GET READY FOR NEXT LEVEL.

1.   Handle the Hell…

Hebrews 12:2

² Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

2.   Ask for Wisdom to see clearly.

James 1:1-8

² My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. ⁴ But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. ⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. ⁷ For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; ⁸ he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

3.   Set your sights on the promotion (Vision).

4. Take steady steps towards your goal while waiting for  God’s suddenly.