The problem with an “emotional affair” is that it is more than unhelpful; it misses what is going on in a person’s life entirely. Emotions are what the person may feel or experience, but it does not accurately identify what is happening inside his spiritual heart.
I’m talking about cause and effect. Emotions are the effect, but the thoughts create the effect (the emotions). A person caught in an emotional affair has evil thoughts. He has a distorted thought life, which has him entangled in a relationship with another woman. He thinks he wants to be adulterous because he’s hooked on a feeling (emotions). His “affair” did not just happen. https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-87-the-unintended-consequence-of-an-emotional-affair/
The shocking and inspiring story of Sophie Ottaway.
Watch the full interview here: https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-490-sophie-ottaway-engineered-at-birth-to-be-a-girl/
Focus on the Cause, not the Effect, so you can remove the cause and not be affected by the effect.
A local church’s worship value is not primarily about the music but the lifestyle because you never ask, “Are you worshiping?” The reason is that we worship all the time. God made us for worship—wired us for worship, you could say.
Worship is part of what it means to be image-bearers. Who could do otherwise? The better question is, “What or whom do we worship?” https://lifeovercoffee.com/three-characteristics-of-a-fantastic-local-church/
Whenever a person chooses sinful anger, he is, in effect, giving the other person control over him. It’s counterintuitive. In his anger, he is like a marionette, a puppet on a string.
Anger toward someone is the total submission of their thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors to the other person. It is not self-control, as governed by the Spirit of God, but someone out of control or under the control of another spirit. https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-110-help-for-the-angry-person/
