Getting Control Of Our Emotions

We make our choices and our choices make us.

There are six primary emotions:

• Anger
• Disgust
• Sad
• Fear
• Surprise
• Happy

When our emotions go up

• Our logic goes down.

When our emotions go down

• Our ability to choose healthy choices goes down.

How do we keep our emotions and logic on equal planes?

Genesis 37:14-18 So he said to him, “Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.” Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron.

When Joseph arrived at Shechem, ¹⁵ a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, “What are you looking for?”

¹⁶ He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?”

¹⁷ “They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’”

So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. ¹⁸ But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

How is Joseph Feeling?

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Genesis 39:1-6 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

² The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. ³ When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did, ⁴ Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. ⁵ From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the Lord was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field. ⁶ So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.

How is Joseph Feeling?

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Paul’s Choice Chart

• Everyday choices – Little consequences
• Relational choices – Give more than you take
• Moral choices –Poor choices here will sink the ship.
• Work choice –

Genesis 39:6-10 “Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, ⁷ and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”

⁸ But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. ⁹ No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?” ¹⁰ And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.”

Joseph goes to jail for a crime he did not commit. How is he feeling?

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Genesis 39:22-23 “So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there. ²³ The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.”

Joseph asked the cupbearer to have favor on him and ask for him to be removed from prison from the Pharaoh.

• Cupbearer forgot
• How does Joseph Feel?
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How does he do it?

 Genesis 39:9 “How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”

We must learn to filter our emotions through God’s Word.

An example would be if you were Angry, and the Bible verses that would flow through my mind:

• In your anger do not sin
• Forgive as you have been forgiven.
• Love covers over a multiple of sins.
• Do not let any unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is useful for building up others according to their needs.