Today’s New Covenant nugget is from 3 John 2
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
Your soul is the catalyst for all prosperity and spiritual progression. Your soul is your inner man, your mind, your will and your emotions. Wrong thinking, fleshly desire and carnal emotions cannot receive the blessings that the Lord has already provided. Jesus has already freely given us all things as born again, New Covenant believers, as we are transformed emotionally, mentally and in our desires, we are able to desire, embrace, rejoice over and receive these blessings!
Ephesians 3:16, 20 (AMP) says, “May He grant you out of the riches of His glory, to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through His Spirit in your inner self, [indwelling your innermost being and personality]. Now to Him who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to His power that is at work within us.”
He can only fully carry out His purpose and do superabundantly more than we dare ask or think when we are STRONG and renewed in our inner self… in our souls.
I AM SEPARATING THE RENEWAL PROCESS OF THE MIND, THE WILL AND THE EMOTIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF TEACHING…
The renewal of the mind, the will and emotions overlap and are intertwined! Your SOUL is transformed as a whole, and as you are renewed mentally, emotionally as well as in your desire, you will be able to perceive, desire and be emotionally in sync to receive what the Lord has for you.
Firstly, when it comes to your feelings and emotions, you do not have to suppress your emotions and your feelings… God gave them to you for a reason, in fact, He has emotions… He ‘feels’ very strongly. He can be grieved or saddened, He sits in the heavens and laughs, He gets angry and He gets excited and emotionally stirred up.
We need to understand that there is a difference between fleshly emotions, or fleshly feelings that cannot be trusted, or followed, and transformed, renewed emotions that can absolutely be trusted and followed.
Flesh emotions don’t ‘FEEL LIKE’ praying, they don’t ‘feel like’ getting up and going to church and the don’t ‘feel like’ reading the bible… they are easily stressed, frequently worried and totally circumstance based. Renewed godly emotions are always joyful, at peace, in faith and are never circumstance based, but always Word based… in other words, the WORD and the LEADING OF THE SPIRIT are the barometers for renewed emotions, whereas circumstances dictate a person’s fleshly emotions.
Ephesians 4:23-24 says, “Be renewed in ‘the spirit of your mind’, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.” The ‘spirit of the mind’ is referring to our attitudes and our emotions, or feelings. As we are emotionally renewed, we are able to fully clothe ourselves in the NEW that the Lord has for us!
Psalm 69:19-20 (TPT) expresses being emotionally heartbroken and crushed, “See how they dishonor me in shame and disgrace? You know, Lord, what I’m going through, and you see it all. I’m heartsick and heartbroken by it all. Their contempt has crushed my soul. I looked for sympathy and compassion but found only empty stares.”
Circumstance based flesh emotions and feelings can lead to heartbreak, shame, disgrace, hopelessness, and being crushed. Renewed ‘Word based’ emotions and feelings lead to hope, faith, courage, wholeness and overall prosperity in every area of life, regardless of circumstances!
WHEN YOUR FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS ARE NOT TRANSFORMED, GOING BY HOW YOU FEEL, IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER. WHEN YOUR FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS ARE RENEWED, GOING BY HOW YOU FEEL IS THE PATHWAY TO SUCCESS AND BLESSING!
HOW TO UNDERGO EMOTIONAL RENEWAL
#1. THE IMPLANTED WORD
James 1:21 says that the implanted Word is able to save your soul. The way that the Word gets PLANTED in our souls is by SPEAKING it and declaring it by faith. As you confess the Word that you believe, “with the heart one believes, and with the MOUTH confession is made unto transformed emotions, wholeness, prosperity and every promise of God!”
SPEAK THE WORD TO YOUR EMOTIONS…
“According to the Word I walk in love, peace, gentleness, self-control, gentleness and joy, I am in His presence and I am joyful… I go forth with joy and I am led by peace…”
In Psalm 42:11 (AMPC) David speaks to his emotions… “Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, who is the help of my countenance, and my God.”
#2. THE ANOINTING AND GLORY OF GOD
2 Corinthians 3:18 says that as we behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, we shall be transformed into the same image of Jesus from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. In other words, as we get under the anointing and the glory of God, we begin to be transformed progressively into Jesus’ image. We progressively are renewed in our desire, our thinking and in our emotions!
TRUST AND BE LED BY YOUR TRANSFORMED EMOTIONS
Isaiah 55:12 says, “You shall go out with joy, and BE LED out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”
Colossians 3:15 (AMP) says, “Let the peace of Christ [the inner calm of one who walks daily with Him] be the controlling factor in your hearts [deciding and settling questions that arise]. To this peace indeed you were called as members in one body [of believers]. And be thankful [to God always].”
The Good News Translation says, “The peace that Christ gives is to guide you in the decisions you make.”
The Passion Translation says, “Let your heart be always guided by the peace of the Anointed One, who called you to peace as part of His one body.”
YOU CAN TRUST TRANSFORMED FEELINGS OF THE NEW CREATURE… FEELINGS OF EXCITEMENT, JOY AND PEACE! OR, WHEN YOU FEEL GRIEVED, STRESSED OR HAVE NO EXCITEMENT OR JOY, DO NOT PROCEED!
CONFESSION
“Father, I thank you that You transform me emotionally from glory to glory to be like Jesus and operate like Jesus emotionally.
I declare that I am being renewed in ‘the spirit of my mind’, and as I am emotionally transformed, I put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
I receive emotional wholeness now, in Jesus Name!
I receive a new heart, now, in Jesus Name!
My emotions and my feelings are progressively being transformed and renewed.
Thank You Father for feelings and emotions that I can trust.
Your peace, joy, excitement and gladness will act as an umpire and will rule in my heart, in Jesus Name!”
Blessings on you, Nick
