Peter 5: 7 (Amplified)

When circumstances cause suffering, suffering will cause anxiety

*the Bible doesn’t tell us to throw off affliction, but throw off anxiety

*God understands our feelings and concerns

*God has feelings

*Power without passion has no temperance

*God has passion and temperance, feeling

*it’s not wrong to have feelings, it’s wrong when your feelings have you

*when to enemy is the inner me, the heart shuts down

*worry and anxiety are sins

*when your heart is broken, people often try to fix it and make it worse

*the enemy will try and tell you that God does not care

*when fear and anxiety attacks us we charge God falsely

*God do you care?

*people have given up on their faith because they thought God did not care

*God understands that you have feelings, you can have feelings and be a person of faith

*God asks Cain “why has your countenance fallen?”

*God cares how you feel

*we’re good at hiding the things that we should be revealing

*Jesus tells us to “believe and we shall receive it”

*God cares about you!

*your heart can cry out to God and your lips not move

*when no pain gets into your heart no beauty comes in either

*there is a difference between “guarding your heart” and shutting it off

*God wants to put a catheter in our heart and flush it

*you cannot be angry and worship

*when worship connects us, all that matters is worship and pleasing God

*arrogance stops us from getting our heart right

*we come in the sanctuary and worship what we had in mind

*praise and ask God for His will and what He has in mind for our lives

*”God confuse my plans”

*the weapon in our arsenal is the Bible

*the answers are in God’s word

*trust your instruments (your spirit), God will always bring you out right side up