faith is a choice not a feeling

PRELUDE “Partita on Crimond” *CALL TO WORSHIP . Gold Hymnal. For me, that’s a huge distinction. Like happy and sad, perhaps. Love doesn’t just happen to you. I feel challenged by the responsibility of concluding a meeting on this most fundamental subject.

Listen, praise is not a feeling. That’s great news because if we’re all honest, there are days when we’re just not feeling it. Faith is a choice, not a feeling.

It is a choice I make to bless the Lord. Whatever feeling there may be is the result of saving faith, but feeling never saved a single soul.

Praise is not an emotion. Learning to forgive is criticial to building a healthy marriage. I wish to speak to you young women about that supremely important truth. Feelings come and go but the knowing will last, as long as you keep walking in the word and in the spirit. It may involve our emotions, but it is an act of my will. The first principle of the gospel is not “faith.” The first principle of the gospel is “Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ” . ANNOUNCEMENTS. “It’s time to have bold faith.” Anonymous. Even when your mate doesn’t take out the trash, or spends too much time at the mall, or when your new haircut or outfit goes unnoticed, or when poor financial decisions set you back—you can still decide to love. It doesn’t. Love is for better or worse. Leader: I lift up my eyes to the hills -- from where will my help . Many people hesitate to forgive because they feel as though the wrongdoer is getting away with the offense or that forgiveness will somehow condone the offender’s choices. You must choose to love God. It is a choice to trust God . Forgiveness is Not a Feeling. Love is a decision. It rises in us by hope, like sap through the trunk. Saying “love is a choice” sounds like the tendency to believe love is in our power to perform, even when we don’t feel like it.

Yes, faith is not a feeling but a knowing from God deep on the inside. Saying “love is a choice” sounds like the tendency to make the will — with its decisions — the decisive moral agent rather than the heart, with its affections.

Love is a choice, not a feeling or an emotion.

As Job said “though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.” I can’t imagine life without Jesus. It’s a decision you make every day of your life. But I have to tell you the truth: That’s not love. Learning to forgive is criticial to building a healthy marriage. Faith is a choice; not a feeling.

Faith does not exist by itself. God bless Even when we feel all out of faith, He is faithful. But I have to tell you the truth: That’s not love. That knowing is the foundation that we can stand upon to receive. Forgiveness is not condoning what the person did to you. It may involve our emotions, but it is an act of my will.