Paul tells us how we are supposed to respond to our feelings:
"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6: 11)
John prayed for his beloved Gaius as well as every other believer:
"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." (3 John 2)
"Soul prosperity" depends on walking the Truth:
"3For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." (3 John 3-4)
We find the Truth in Christ (John 14: 6) and His Word:
"Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." (John 17: 17)
The more that we see Him in the Word, that more that we walk by faith, believing what God has said instead of the circumstances of the world or the feelings in our flesh, then our soul prospers, and so do we.
"Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)" (2 Corinthians 5: 6-7)
Faith is not some notion of hyperspirituality which speaks to some realm not yet present to us, but rather recognizing reality based on God's Word what is right now before us:
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2For by it the elders obtained a good report." (Hebrews 11: 1-2)
Faith is Based on His Word, not our feelings.
"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6: 11)
John prayed for his beloved Gaius as well as every other believer:
"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." (3 John 2)
"Soul prosperity" depends on walking the Truth:
"3For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." (3 John 3-4)
We find the Truth in Christ (John 14: 6) and His Word:
"Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." (John 17: 17)
The more that we see Him in the Word, that more that we walk by faith, believing what God has said instead of the circumstances of the world or the feelings in our flesh, then our soul prospers, and so do we.
"Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)" (2 Corinthians 5: 6-7)
Faith is not some notion of hyperspirituality which speaks to some realm not yet present to us, but rather recognizing reality based on God's Word what is right now before us:
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2For by it the elders obtained a good report." (Hebrews 11: 1-2)
Faith is Based on His Word, not our feelings.
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