MASTER YOUR EMOTIONS

Romans chapter 12
















Today we are walking in: MASTER YOUR EMOTIONS



















1 Chronicles 28:9




And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind H3824: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

























MIND













Today we look to the word-MIND-H3824 lebab--mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory















The Torah testifies...............







Genesis 23:8




And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind H3824 that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,




Leviticus 24:12




And they put him in ward, that the mind H3824 of the LORD might be shewed them.







Numbers 16:28

And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind H3824.



















The prophets proclaim..................




Isaiah 26:3




Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind H3824 is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.







Ezekiel 11:5




And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the Lord; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind H3824, every one of them.









Habakkuk 1:11




Then shall his mind H3824 change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.















The writings bear witness..........................







1 Chronicles 22:7




And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind H3824 to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:













Lamentations 3:21




This I recall to my mind H3824, therefore have I hope.







Job 34:33

Should it be according to thy mind H3824? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.
























MASTER YOUR EMOTIONS




My friends, hear me today. The greatest battles in your life are not taking place around you. They are taking place within you. The storms that threaten your destiny are not the storms in the world. They are the storms in your soul. And if you do not learn to master what is happening inside, you will always be controlled by what is happening outside. You were never created to be a slave to your emotions. You were never designed to be dragged through life by reactions, impulses, and feelings. Yah did not form you to be tossed to and fro by the mood of the moment or the pressure of the environment. You were created to rule. You were created to lead. You were created to govern beginning with yourself.




But we are living in a generation that has confused feeling with leadership, reaction with reality, emotion with identity. The culture teaches you to follow your heart, but the heart without discipline becomes a dictator. The culture says speak your mind, but the untrained mind becomes a minefield. And if you are not careful, you will spend your entire life reacting to things that do not even deserve your attention. Listen carefully. Emotional instability is one of the most common ways people lose their destiny. Not because they lack talent, not because they lack opportunity, but because they lack control. They lose influence because they could not control their responses. They lose relationships because they could not govern their reactions. They lose peace because they gave people access to places Yah never gave them authority to enter.




You must understand something. The world you live in is designed to provoke you. Media provokes you. Social platforms provoke you. Relationships provoke you. Institutions provoke you. Circumstances provoke you. Everywhere you turn, someone is trying to pull a reaction out of you. Why? Because the moment you react without intention, you give away your power. The moment you respond without purpose, you surrender your authority. Anybody who can control your emotions can control your decisions. Anybody who can control your decisions can control your destiny. And Yah never gave your destiny to people. He gave it to you.




So today we must confront a hard truth. Many of us are not being controlled by others. We are being controlled by what others can trigger in us. It is not the person. It is the ungoverned emotion. It is not the situation. It is the unmanaged reaction. This is why so many people live in cycles of conflict, fear, frustration, and regret. Not because life is against them, but because they have never been taught how to govern the inner world. But hear me, emotional instability is not a personality problem. It is a leadership problem. It is a violation of the kingdom order of man. Yah designed you to have dominion over the earth, but dominion begins with the territory of your own soul. Before you can manage resources, you must manage reactions. Before you can lead others, you must lead yourself. Before you can govern circumstances, you must govern your own spirit.




This is why the enemy does not need to destroy you. He only needs to distract you. He only needs to offend you. He only needs to provoke you. Because if he can control your emotional state, he can sabotage your spiritual authority. But today I am going to show you something powerful. You can take your emotions back. You can take your peace back. You can take your authority back. You can become unmanipulable, unshakable, and unmoved. Not by becoming cold or distant, but by becoming governed, disciplined, and anchored in kingdom principle. Yah built you to rule your feelings, not to be ruled by them. And if you will hear this teaching, if you will take these principles into your spirit, your life will cross a line you will never return from. Emotional control will make you untouchable to manipulation. Today is the beginning of a new kind of strength. Today is the beginning of a new kind of peace. Today is the day you stop being reactive and start being responsible, intentional, and purposeful.




Now let me take you deeper because emotional manipulation is not what most people think it is. Many believe people are controlling them. Many think society is controlling them. Many assume the enemy is controlling them. But hear me carefully. No one can control you unless they can activate something inside you. Manipulation does not begin with a manipulator. It begins with unmanaged emotions. This is why the wise writer said a man without self-control is like a city whose walls are broken down. When your emotional walls are broken, anybody can walk in. Anybody can influence you. Anybody can push you. Anybody can provoke you. And the most dangerous part is this, you will not even know it is happening because the battle is internal.




People do not manipulate you, they manipulate your reactions. They press a button and you respond. They whisper a word and you collapse. They withdraw approval and you panic. They give a comment and you break. But it is not the person. The person is only touching a wound you have not healed, a fear you have not confronted, a belief you have not challenged, an emotion you have not governed. The real enemy is the internal vulnerability. You cannot be manipulated by something outside until something inside has been left unmanaged. If someone can predict your reaction, they can control your decision. If they can control your decision, they can control your destiny. And if they can control your destiny, they can silence your purpose.




The kingdom never trains believers to become emotionally driven. The kingdom trains believers to become principle driven. Emotion reacts. Principle responds. Emotion is immediate. Principle is intentional. Emotion fluctuates with the moment. Principle stands firm through the ages. You are not meant to live by what you feel. You are meant to live by what is true. It is impossible to manipulate a person who knows who they are. Identity is immunity. Purpose is protection. Self-governance is spiritual armor. Most manipulation succeeds because people do not know their own value. They do not understand their assignment. They have not established internal boundaries. They have not developed emotional discipline.




Your emotional reactions reveal the areas where access still exists. They reveal the gaps in self-leadership. This is why Yah focuses on inner transformation. Before He releases the outer assignment He demands stability. Before He gives influence He demands governance. Before He gives visibility He demands maturity. Your emotions are not someone else’s job. They are your leadership territory. Your heart is your territory. Your peace is your territory. Your reactions are your territory. Your destiny depends on how well you govern the territory of your soul.




There are three major sources of emotional instability. The first is identity confusion. When you do not know who you are, you allow others to tell you who you are. When you are unsure of your value, you give people the power to measure it. Identity anchors the soul. Without it, emotions become vulnerable. The second is purpose disconnection. When you do not know why you are here, everything becomes an emotional event. Purpose is the filter that decides what deserves your reaction. The third is disorder in the soul. The mind, will, and emotions must be trained. If the soul is untrained, emotions will reign. Your spirit must lead, your mind must follow, and your emotions must obey.




The foundational kingdom principle is this: emotions are servants, not masters. Whenever something designed to serve becomes the ruler, abuse follows. Emotions were designed to be indicators, not dictators. They communicate, they do not command. When emotions instruct your decisions you live outside of divine order. The internal hierarchy is spirit, mind, body, emotions. When this is reversed instability becomes normal. He who rules his spirit is greater than one who conquers a city because ruling the spirit governs the whole internal world.




Every time an emotion rises, tell it, you are reporting to me, you are not ruling me. Emotions are employees. They give information but they do not run the company. Manipulators rely on emotional chaos. When you are governed they lose access.




Purpose becomes the master filter. Purpose decides what deserves energy and attention. Without purpose everything feels personal. With purpose you begin to ignore what does not belong to your assignment. Yahusha walked through betrayal and opposition emotionally steady because purpose controlled His responses.




The strongest person in any environment is the one who cannot be provoked. An unreactive spirit is not numbness, it is governance. Reaction is the lowest form of living. Response is the highest. Your reaction reveals who has power over you. Calmness is spiritual armor. Silence is spiritual strategy. The pause is the birthplace of dominion. Pause before you speak. Pause before you decide. Pause until the spirit leads and the emotion yields.




There are four levels of emotional dominion. Reaction, where emotions rule. Suppression, where storms are hidden but not healed. Management, where emotions are recognized but not obeyed. And dominion, where emotions serve purpose. At dominion anger becomes righteous change, fear becomes wisdom, sadness becomes depth, pressure becomes momentum.




This requires an identity shift. You are not an emotional creature trying to be spiritual. You are a spiritual being learning to govern emotions. Reject labels of instability and receive the identity of an emotional leader. Identity creates authority.




Emotional intelligence in the kingdom means understanding the source of feelings, interpreting their message, and redirecting their energy. Ask what is this telling me, why is it affecting me, how can this serve purpose. Emotions are fuel and fuel must be aimed.




Above all, guard your heart, for from it flow the issues of life. Guarding is governance. You were created to lead the earth, but before Yah gives you nations He gives you yourself. If you master your inner world you become unstoppable. Your peace becomes unshakable. Your purpose becomes undeniable. Your decisions become unmanipulable. Your destiny becomes inevitable. This is the transformation Yah intended for you.