Often, when the term "emotions" are mentioned by Christians, the statement is accompanied with a caution, implying that they are unreliable. While it is true that emotions can vacillate and should always be in sync with Truth---we don't need to shut them off in fear of vulnerability. Rather, we need to max them out for God because God is a God of EMOTIONS!! Being made
in His very image, we have the amazing ability to release our hearts. God
doesn't want us to supress our emotions, but rather He desires us to align them with His own.
Jesus expressed passionate emotions on Earth that were aligned with the Father's heart.
He wept, steamed with righteous indignation, and loved vehemently. Jesus' didn't supress His
emotions but expressed them, even publicly at times, because of the freedom that He walked in. Free people are liberated with their emotions. It's those who have been wounded and hurt that often supress their emotions as a protective measure. For example, by not opening their hearts so wide, they conclude that the pain of any heart break won't be felt as much. But Jesus came to set the oppressed free. He wants to remove those shields of defense off of our hearts so that we can align them with the One whose love never fails us.
Through prayer and intercession, directed by the Holy Spirit, God will open our
hearts wider than we ever thought possible. Our emotions of love, hate, sorrow, joy etc.
will soar to greater heights than we have ever known as the Holy Spirit guides us into the heartbeat of the Father. To explain, the ectasy of revelling in His Presence, the indignation against sin, the sorrow of a broken world, and the joy of our salvation will be expressed with God's propelling passion into astronomically diminsions.
And as we deeply intercede for others, the Holy Spirit will guide us to tap into God's desires for their needs to be met. Consequently, our emotions will burn with passion that will press the prayer through to victory in the Spirit realm; asthey flow in God's heart and compel His intervention. Our emotions move the heart of God, because the Holy Spirit prays through our emotions expending them on Kingdom pursuits. Instead of a warning accompanied with being too emotionful, perhaps the opposite should be true. A dead person doesn't express emotions. Emotion's are the release of the heart and through the power of the Holy Spirit, even God's heart. Therefore, we need to encourage Christians to be MORE EMOTIONAL for God, opening our hearts as wide as possible, so we can throb with His heartbeat.
