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Will God punish me for negative feelings?

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Hi everyone,
This is difficult for me.
Right now I am struggling with my emotions in particularly I am afraid that I may be embarrassed of Jesus somehow. Sometimes when I think of Him or talking about Him I will get a strange feeling in my stomach and I think "Oh this is embarrassment" then I worry and start repenting.

Yesterday I was writing one of my novels and felt the urge to mention Jesus' name and I felt the horrible urge to run and finish the page as quickly as possibld in order to get away from that section.

I was horrified and I refused to do it and instead I forced myself to stare at the line where I wrote Jesus' name. Despite this I feel like I have sinned horribly I have repented but I feel like God now wants to take that novel from me as punishment for having that feeling. I dont want to have those feelings but I cant control them, I try to fight them my positive reactions but I still feel like I must be embarrassed of God whether I can control it or not and that He will punish me harshly for it. What can I do? Is it sinning to experience an emotion like that and how do I stop it from coming?
 

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Why would our loving God want to take away such a precious opportunity for such a gifted and talented person like you to reach out for Him? Why would He want to punish you at all? He is your heavenly Father who longs to bless you and those who you reach out to. So keep writing your novel, have faith, and trust God do something amazing :)
 
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Hello! We are not usually in control of which thoughts pop into our heads, but we can learn to control how we respond to them. My advice for when thoughts or feelings occur like this is to stop for a moment, direct your thoughts to prayer...especially prayer concerning the thing you're having an issue with, and then once your mind has been reoriented back towards God in prayer, continue what you were doing. Don't blame yourself for thoughts or feelings you don't want to have appearing in your mind, just try to practice noticing when it happens and chasing them off with prayer.
 
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Hi everyone,
This is difficult for me.
Right now I am struggling with my emotions in particularly I am afraid that I may be embarrassed of Jesus somehow. Sometimes when I think of Him or talking about Him I will get a strange feeling in my stomach and I think "Oh this is embarrassment" then I worry and start repenting.
Yesterday I was writing one of my novels and felt the urge to mention Jesus' name and I felt the horrible urge to run and finish the page as quickly as possibld in order to get away from that section.

I was horrified and I refused to do it and instead I forced myself to stare at the line where I wrote Jesus' name. Despite this I feel like I have sinned horribly I have repented but I feel like God now wants to take that novel from me as punishment for having that feeling. I dont want to have those feelings but I cant control them, I try to fight them my positive reactions but I still feel like I must be embarrassed of God whether I can control it or not and that He will punish me harshly for it. What can I do? Is it sinning to experience an emotion like that and how do I stop it from coming?
Here is the Scripture that you should be seriously considering:

"But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Corinthians 12:9-10).

There is a false teaching in many areas of the church that believers must always have positive thinking, and that negative thinking about one's self if a lack of faith. This comes out of the Power of Positive Thinking theory by Norman Vincent Peale. The deception is that believers are brainwashed into thinking that they can achieve victory in their lives by positive thinking and confession, when, in fact, what they are actually doing is turned their backs on Christ and trusting in themselves.

This is the message of the cross - that we can't achieve victory in our Christian walk in ourselves. If we could, why do we need Christ? Why did Jesus have to come and die on the cross? Is God a vending machine, a celestial Father Christmas who just hands out goodies every time we demand them?

Thinking and saying "poor me" is just another form of pride and it grieves the Spirit in you. Here is the correct principle:
"I'm just a poor sinner, and nothing at all,
But Jesus Christ is my all in all."
 
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Hello! We are not usually in control of which thoughts pop into our heads, but we can learn to control how we respond to them. My advice for when thoughts or feelings occur like this is to stop for a moment, direct your thoughts to prayer...especially prayer concerning the thing you're having an issue with, and then once your mind has been reoriented back towards God in prayer, continue what you were doing. Don't blame yourself for thoughts or feelings you don't want to have appearing in your mind, just try to practice noticing when it happens and chasing them off with prayer.
Thank you Sasha, I am beginning to realize that I cannot control the feelings I have just my reaction to those feelings. So you don't think I need to stop writing this novel as a punishment to myself?
 
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Here is the Scripture that you should be seriously considering:

"But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Corinthians 12:9-10).

There is a false teaching in many areas of the church that believers must always have positive thinking, and that negative thinking about one's self if a lack of faith. This comes out of the Power of Positive Thinking theory by Norman Vincent Peale. The deception is that believers are brainwashed into thinking that they can achieve victory in their lives by positive thinking and confession, when, in fact, what they are actually doing is turned their backs on Christ and trusting in themselves.

This is the message of the cross - that we can't achieve victory in our Christian walk in ourselves. If we could, why do we need Christ? Why did Jesus have to come and die on the cross? Is God a vending machine, a celestial Father Christmas who just hands out goodies every time we demand them?

Thinking and saying "poor me" is just another form of pride and it grieves the Spirit in you. Here is the correct principle:
"I'm just a poor sinner, and nothing at all,
But Jesus Christ is my all in all."
Thank you for the verse it is helpful. I get worried at times that if I think or feel negative emotions especially one that might be offensive to God, He will punish me harshly even though I tell Him I do not mean those feelings the fear persists, but I will try to let that fear go and understand that God does not expect positive feelings and thoughts from me all the time and that He understands that I am not intentionally conjuring them up.
 
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Thank you Sasha, I am beginning to realize that I cannot control the feelings I have just my reaction to those feelings. So you don't think I need to stop writing this novel as a punishment to myself?
No, I don't think so!
 
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