I am learning to walk with God beyond my feelings. Beyond my usual, “I don’t feel like reading the Bible today. I don’t feel like praying today. I don’t feel like spending time today.” All these feelings “feel” so real at the time I feel them (so many feelings in one sentence). I am just not in the mood and so I choose not to. But I am unlearning my bad habits and learning to choose to show up beyond how I feel.

My ability to see God as just this person I communicate with when I feel like is my inability to see and recognize his sovereignty and vastness and the magnitude of who he is…....the creator of the universe. I realize that when remembering the one we serve, the Almighty God, I mean when we truly remember him for who He is, then we are able to shift our perspective to see that it is a privilege to communicate with God daily.

Sometimes I realize that this ability so surrenders to my feelings so easily when it comes to the things of God is not unique to God. It is a slow fade; I find that this same attitude is present in all other parts of my life where I just “don’t feel like it” so when I allow myself to move the rhythm of my feelings on other areas then this reality sips into my relationship with God as well.

Even when we don’t feel like it, we should never withhold our praise because our feelings are fleeting and as I jokingly say sometimes “feelings are not to be trusted.” Our feelings should always be subject to the truth and when we feel like doing something we are not meant to do or don’t feel like doing something we are meant to do we should always question our feelings and not just go with them. We should ask ourselves If this is true or if this is just our flesh trying to get us to feel something that will pull us away from what God wants us to do.

Don’t get me wrong, I am in no way saying feelings are invalid or we should not acknowledge how we feel. Acknowledging is important and sifting through them are important. But in the midst of that, you need to know how to ensure that your feelings and emotions are not controlling your every move.

I am learning to live beyond my feelings, to remember that God has given me authority from the beginning of time and this authority is not subject to just principalities and powers but also, I have authority to live beyond my feelings.