Serve god with your emotions

Blog piece from Andrew Wommack "How to Attain Emotional Stability".

As Humans, we have emotions, and so does God, and Jesus demonstrated plenty of emotions. Be aware of, and acknowledge, all your emotions. THEN SUBMIT them to the Holy Spirit - CHOOSE JOY, choose to "not be troubled". Don't let your emotions rip you around. Submit them. ENJOY your emotions. ENJOY your everyday life - no matter what. 

"You don’t have to have extreme highs and extreme lows. You can live on an even plane of continual joy and peace. Isaiah 26:3 says that the Lord will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed upon Him because he trusts in Him. Well, peace is an emotion, and you can live in a state of perfect emotional peace."

"Because thou served not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee (Deuteronomy 28:45-48).

"God not only hated sin; He hated negative emotions. It was because His people had not served Him with their emotions that He was bringing judgment upon them. Very few people see emotions in that light. Most people look at emotions as being optional. They would like to have positive emotions, but they don’t feel responsible for producing them."

"On the very night before His crucifixion, Jesus spoke to His disciples and told them not to let their hearts be troubled. That wasn’t a suggestion; it was a command......The Lord was talking to His disciples just before they would face a tremendous trial. He knew that what they were going to experience was greater than anything they had ever known. He knew they were going to see what they considered their whole lives—their whole calling and everything they had sacrificed for— crucified, destroyed, and defeated. He knew they weren’t going to understand what was happening to them in that terribly trying time. Yet He told them, 'Don’t let your hearts be troubled.'"

"Jesus would be unjust to give someone a command like that if that individual did not have the power to do what He said. Those disciples did have the power to keep their hearts from being troubled. They didn’t exercise it, and the Lord wound up forgiving them, ministering to them, and comforting them. But His best was for them to put their trust in Him and not let their hearts be troubled. I am not trying to put condemnation on anyone, but I am saying that before we can really start experiencing victory in this area of harnessing our emotions, we are going to have to get rid of the    lie that we have no authority over our emotions. Emotions are not just something that happen to us like a chemical reaction we have no ability to control. We are not like animals that just respond to their environments. We are people created in the image of God who have the power of choice (D eut. 30:19). We do have authority over our emotions through Jesus Christ, and it is time to walk in that authority and take control of our feelings."