Are Feelings Real

For we walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7).

Christianity is a life of faith, and faith has nothing to do with feelings. Many are not making progress in their spiritual life as they should because they have been enslaved by their feelings. Someone once said, “I don’t feel like am born again because I keep on doing what I don’t want to do and I don’t even have the courage to share the Gospel.”

Are feelings real?

First and foremost, you don’t have to feel anything to give you the certainty that you are saved. When you are born again, your spirit is what is born again; given life.

Secondly, preaching the Gospel or telling others about Jesus has nothing to do with how you feel. Jesus didn’t say, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature, when ye feel like….” (Mark 16:15) He said, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature,” period! It’s a mandate and you’re obligated to do it. You don’t have to feel like it; you do it! It’s important as a child of God that you learn to live beyond your senses; beyond the flesh. The Bible says “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live” (Romans 8:13).

To live after the flesh is to live according to the dictates of the senses. However, to live through the Spirit is to get under the sway of the Spirit. It means you are moved by the Spirit and the Word only; an experience that changes everything about your life.

Living beyond your feelings means even if you don’t feel like praying, you’ll pray anyhow. It means you don’t feel like winning souls, but you’ll do it all the same, because the Word says so, and your heart is burning with the love of Christ which you must share with others. Living beyond your feelings means you don’t feel in your body that you’re healed but you’re going to act and live as one that’s already healed.

Conclusion

Remember, the Bible says they that are in the flesh cannot please God (Romans 8:8). To please God you have to live beyond your feelings; you have to live by faith in His Word, for without faith, it is impossible to please Him (Hebrews 11:6).

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