I am getting off this emotional roller coaster!! Have you ever said that before? Or ever felt like you were on an emotional roller coaster during a life event? Always going up and down with emotions and then repeating the same emotions over and over again.
You can get dragged down by others drama or what they are personally going through. This is where you need to learn to draw a line and set some healthy boundaries. We should help a friend in need, or listen to someone who is having a problem. We just need to recognize that other people can influence the way we view our own lives and how we feel about ourselves. It can be emotionally draining and unproductive.
We all go through emotions but when it starts to take over your life that is when you need to look at everything, give it ALL to God and get off the emotional roller coaster. Especially when you are feeding off someone else’s emotions, how they feel about you or what they are going through.
You want to be able to produce fruit and if you are on an emotional roller coaster you cannot produce fruit. Emotions can take over your life and not allow the Holy Spirit to work in you. Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV) 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Don’t let someone else’s emotions dictate how you are feeling. I have been doing this for several years now and I have realized that I need to take my life back. I can be there for people, listen to them and pray for them. I just can’t allow them to steal my joy, peace and who I am. This is where setting healthy boundaries’ comes in and you get off the emotional roller coaster. If they want to stay on it then let them but life is too short to be going in circles and being unproductive. Continue to pray for them.
Put on the full armor of God and take a stand against the devil’s schemes. Get off that emotional roller coaster and surrender it all to God.
Ephesians 6:11-17 (NIV)
11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
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