sometimes I hate emotions :(

[outcast]

Especially when I realize that I have to just pray myself and try to walk through how they make me feel. Before - as a religious addict, I would simply call someone and ask them to pray. They would pray some powerful prayer - binding up some demon or other, and all would be well. Or so I would think. Really, all was not well. I had simply put a band aid on something that God wanted me to take a closer look at and let heal.

I now have the opinion that God does not always want to alleviate our emotional pain in an immediate sense. Rather, He expects us to turn to Him and let Him help us to deal with it. Binding up a spirit is not always the answer in these cases. Sometimes it is, but it is our job to use discernment and know when to call someone and have them pray for us when praying ourselves does not seem to work.

I know Jesus went through these things too and that does help some. But, on a night like this when I am feeling really sad for no apparent reason, I really hate emotions. :(

[ex-shep]

Especially when I realize that I have to just pray myself and try to walk through how they make me feel. Before - as a religious addict, I would simply call someone and ask them to pray. They would pray some powerful prayer - binding up some demon or other, and all would be well. Or so I would think. Really, all was not well. I had simply put a band aid on something that God wanted me to take a closer look at and let heal.

I now have the opinion that God does not always want to alleviate our emotional pain in an immediate sense. Rather, He expects us to turn to Him and let Him help us to deal with it. Binding up a spirit is not always the answer in these cases. Sometimes it is, but it is our job to use discernment and know when to call someone and have them pray for us when praying ourselves does not seem to work.

I know Jesus went through these things too and that does help some. But, on a night like this when I am feeling really sad for no apparent reason, I really hate emotions. :(

A most perceptive post. I have discoved my emotions, particularly my anxiety causes me to turn to Him. Emotions do not kill one, even though it feels like it at the time. There are nights I am stuck and that is the way it is. I simply cannot get a handle on the emotion. My experience has been either I will get some type of insight or it passes without further incident.

[outcast]

A most perceptive post. I have discoved my emotions, particularly my anxiety causes me to turn to Him. Emotions do not kill one, even though it feels like it at the time. There are nights I am stuck and that is the way it is. I simply cannot get a handle on the emotion. My experience has been either I will get some type of insight or it passes without further incident.

I have to agree with you. I think that the latter situation is the case tonight. I have learned that sometimes there are both natural causes to why my emotions swing a certain undesirable direction. Sometimes it is tiredness or just hormonal. I don't enjoy the pain as I endure it, but I do realize it will not be the end of the world either. Most likely, I will wake up in the morning and be fine.

[Anna Marta]

Dear Outcast,

Your post makes me think of Jesus and the feelings and pain He probably lived with. All the while he taught, ministered, healed, laughed and cried, He had before Him - what He was to endure.

Love,
Anna Marta

[Jerry]

But, on a night like this when I am feeling really sad for no apparent reason, I really hate emotions. :(

There are times when I awaken without clear memory,,,,but knowing that I have been fighting some great battle.I am glad it's over.I have won !! I know I have won because I am still here,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and I know "It" will come again........
Love Jerry

[SpinningHead]

I have the view that when I'm experiencing a feeling for no apparent reason, it's just my system getting rid of something that is no longer serving me...cleaning house so to say.

[ex-shep]

I have to agree with you. I think that the latter situation is the case tonight. I have learned that sometimes there are both natural causes to why my emotions swing a certain undesirable direction. Sometimes it is tiredness or just hormonal. I don't enjoy the pain as I endure it, but I do realize it will not be the end of the world either. Most likely, I will wake up in the morning and be fine.

Something can be said about sleeping on it :)

[abbey]

Especially when I realize that I have to just pray myself and try to walk through how they make me feel. Before - as a religious addict, I would simply call someone and ask them to pray. They would pray some powerful prayer - binding up some demon or other, and all would be well. Or so I would think. Really, all was not well. I had simply put a band aid on something that God wanted me to take a closer look at and let heal.

I now have the opinion that God does not always want to alleviate our emotional pain in an immediate sense. Rather, He expects us to turn to Him and let Him help us to deal with it. Binding up a spirit is not always the answer in these cases. Sometimes it is, but it is our job to use discernment and know when to call someone and have them pray for us when praying ourselves does not seem to work.

I know Jesus went through these things too and that does help some. But, on a night like this when I am feeling really sad for no apparent reason, I really hate emotions. :(

Outcast, Hello! Longtime, no see.

Ya know, Those darn religious maniacs I was conned by, were always binding up demons too. And it never worked, because its mostly all false. There are demons, but not in the way they believed.

They had me renoiuncing and binding up everything. If i had a common cold it was demonic. Utterly absurd!

Hope all is well. I had to comment because your post reminded me of my own awful cult. When will freedom come from the experience! I still am wounded over the cult and it has been one year.

Binding is BS! lol

[abbey]

I have to agree with you. I think that the latter situation is the case tonight. I have learned that sometimes there are both natural causes to why my emotions swing a certain undesirable direction. Sometimes it is tiredness or just hormonal. I don't enjoy the pain as I endure it, but I do realize it will not be the end of the world either. Most likely, I will wake up in the morning and be fine.


I have tons of emotional pain too. Im always asking God to remove it. SOmetimes He does. And then somedays, we just have to feel. Im a very emotional, sensitive person. It hasnt benefitted me at all.

[outcast]

I understand how you feel Abs. On both counts. I am doing better and think that night was either triggered by a conversation I'd had with a good friend of mine or it was just physiological.

I had a similar situation for an hour or so after working out tonight. I was dealing with some emotions from a friendship conundrum and they had Princess Diana's memorial on TV at the gym. The things said there caused me to think of both my father's death and my husbands health issues. I cried most of the way home and then was fine. I know that maybe I needed the emotional release and feel like I am fine now.

I too tend to be overly emotional and have tried all of my life to not let it rule me. I know emotions are there for a purpose, but I know too that God wants us to balance things with our brains.

Thanks so much for asking about me. I haven't been on much this week since school has started again, but it is nice to know that you were concerned and that you can understand how I feel.