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.
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.
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