From the Amateur Wannabe Therapist Desk of Kristen Lopez

Feelings are for feeling. They communicate messages and conclusions that have been made with whatever information has previously been programmed by a variety of different sources, no matter how contradictory those sources are with one another. Feelings are real and valid, they should be acknowledged and valued, but they do NOT define who you are. Your identity should not be based upon your feelings or emotions. They run on previously programmed/downloaded information, regardless of whether or not that information had errors or faulty reasonings based on the principles of this world. They do not concern themselves with truth, they just put two and two together and come up with the feeling based on whatever operating system has been installed, since infancy.

Feel your feelings, they are important, but make the ever so critical distinction..you are NOT your feelings.

The Great Deception

The lie, the great deception is still being told to Adam and Eve's descendants again and again, and believing it leaves devastation and tragic heartbreak.

The lie that the validation and worth given to us from Christ isn't enough, that His grace and His death on the cross and His resurrection for us isn't enough when it comes to speaking to our worth, and that we need this still from others. The lie that says we can get this on our own, apart from God because we are lacking. The serpent saw us through a false paradigm, out of that he spoke and we believed. The paradigm the serpent had of us when tempting Eve was that we were lacking, that God was withholding, and that we could get what we lacked and what God was withholding on our own, and that by us getting that on our own by disobeying God, by mistrusting God, by sinning..we would not surely die, what a lie. The lie was presented so well, it's the paradigm of looking through the eyes of the serpent that paints us as lacking and able to get what God withholds, and by not truly dying in our sin of unbelief and disobedience.

It's the lie that God isn't really enough, what Christ has done for us isn't enough. This is the great deception still propelling us straight into the enemy's headquarters of sin.

Christ's words on the cross hold so much truth and power:

"It is finished." John 19:30. Nothing else is necessary, believe it, it's the truth and be set free.