Emotional Purity

[His Princess]

Have you ladies ever really thought on the subject of emotional purity? Until I read a wonderful book about it I had never even thought about it. It may be a more common thing in the message, I dont know as I wasnt raised in it.

[SisTrev]

emotional purity? um..nope ...cant say as i have... what book are you reading about it in? sounds interresting.

[His Princess]

It's a book called 'Emotional Purity'. It really changed my thoughts and life and I am so thankful to the Lord for letting me come across it. It is not message so you may not agree with everything she says but it is very good.

[blessed]

Want to tell us more about the book?

[azurity]

Yes, I would be interested in hearing about it too!

It sounds like keeping your mind and emotions pure, as well as your body. Am I on the right track?

[NeedGod]

oh, praise the Lord. i want to be pure everywhere. of course my dear we may not agree with everything if it is not all in line with the world, but you know what we will do, we will eat the wheat and leave out the weeds. just weed them out and eat the wheat.
oh, in fact the title alone is enough for me. emotional purity. NICE. do tell us more!

[AgapZoe]

hmmmmmmmmm.........Emotional purity! sounds interesting! who's the author?

[collegegirl]

Yes sister, please share that with us. I would sincerely like to read the book.

[His Princess]

Well I can't put it into words as good as the author does but what she is trying to say is that there is so much more beyond physical purity. Keeping our thoughts and emotions pure is also so very important. I would say more so. Because most everything we do starts with a thought. As women we get attached very quickly and we have to learn to be very careful what we let happen with our emotions. In friendships it's very important to have it clear on both sides what kind of friendship it is. And keeping both of yourselves pure for you future mate without any emotional baggage from a past relationship. But anyway I would really recommend the book. The authors name is Heather Paulsen.

[SisTrev]

I looked on Amazon.com and they have the book...It sounds good. I just may have to see if our library has it.

[Sara]

I really enjoyed reading this article by Brother Paul. It's really interesting and opened up my eyes to many things. Most importantly, read the bold paragraph near the end. Emotional purity.

The Youth Quake News
Issue No. 3.2
June - July 2005

Should We Trust Our Heart?
by Bro. Paul LaFontaine

Recently, in one of our Friday night youth Bible studies, we discussed "following your heart." We had a great discussion and to be honest, we ended up taking the Word and totally destroying the whole worldly concept of "just follow your heart." For many of the youth at our meeting, it was a real surprise to learn that following your heart is unbiblical. No doubt we have learned this principle from the messages the world sends us. "Do what your feel in your heart", "if it feels good then just do it", "if your heart is beating fast, it must be love", are all pretty bad ways to approach love.

Before we look at some scriptures to help see what to really do with our heart, let's look at the word "heart". Heart is used in so many different ways today and means so many things. Just like the word love. Even the Bible has different meanings to the word heart. We know we have physical part of our body that is called our heart, but sometimes "heart" is referring to our soul. The Bible tells us to hide the Word in our heart, and sometimes preachers say we need a revelation of Christ in our heart. This is certainly true and we should be led by Christ that's in our heart. The Christian should be led by the inside of the inside, which is the soul, and sometimes that is referred to as our heart.

The heart that I am writing about for our subject is not the soul or the physical heart. It is the seat of our emotions. It's the whole realm of our human spirit, feelings, and thoughts. As happy we are to have all this, I want to make it real clear. The realm of our heart is not something to be trusted. It can feel so right and convincing, sometimes that it's hard not to follow. What is bad is when young people buy into what their heart and emotions are saying so much they can ignore the still small voice of the Holy Ghost, the good godly counsel around them, and even the Bible itself, all in the name of following their heart. I have heard young people say, "Well, I know this guy is not a Christian, but I feel good in my heart about him." "I feel it's the Lord's will to move to (city) and go to college. I know there is no fellowship of believers there, but I'll be okay." These are statements from a person who is getting pretty risky following what they feel is right. Let's all remember the old saying: the will of God will never lead you where His grace cannot keep you. Gifts that come from God will always lead you closer to Him, never further away. JAMES 1:17 says Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. A new job promotion you feel came from the Lord, but pulls you away from Lord, probably did not come from the Lord. A girl you feel God sent your way, but she continually leads you astray, probably wasn't sent by God.

Why can't we trust our heart? God gives the reasons in Jeremiah 17:9-10. These would be good scriptures to memorize. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. That word deceitful means sly or even slippery. Something God says can be sly or slippery is not a good thing to follow or base your decisions on. The heart is so unpredictable. One day it can send you a strong message one way, the next day it can send you a totally different message. Nobody can understand it or as the Bible says, "who can know it." There is only one source that can search, test, and screen the heart properly, and that's God. Just because your heart is telling you something does not mean its right. It needs to be continually checked by the Word of God. Why? Because it is deceitful. It can lie to you. What feels so right some times can be dangerously wrong.

If we are not to follow our heart as the world teaches us, then what do we do with our heart? Besides letting the Lord always search and try it, the Bible gives us another simple principle to follow. It says in Prov. 4:23 to keep or guard your heart. "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." Our quality of life will be connected very much too how much we guard our heart. If you don't think the heart is tied to what issues (or springs) from our everyday life, then you have serious issues (just had to add that.) We are to put a high priority on guarding our heart because it is so much a part of our life. It can lead us astray, but when it is guarded and protected, our life can be happier and much more fulfilling. Your heart has the potential to do great damage if it is not carefully guarded.

What does this call for young people to do? Don't just easily give your emotions over to someone or something. Girls are a more vulnerable in this area than guys, because women are bent to being a little more emotional, but this instruction is to both. We hear how important it is to protect and save our virtue and purity till the wedding day, but not much is said about protecting and saving our emotions. Young people often guard there bodies, but give their emotions to several people before they are married. I like to tell young people that all of your sexual passions and the emotions that go with it are meant to be poured out on one person in life. Not three, not four, not ten. Just one, and that is your husband or wife after your wedding day. Often marriages have struggles because people have given pieces of their heart to so many others before marriage. This is another area to apply to "guarding your heart."


I would like to take this to a further level maybe in a future article. One of the ways to guard your heart is to stay accountable in a community of parents, believers, and good counsel. One of the biggest problems I see in many believers today is unaccountability. There is truly too many that get isolated to themselves and put themselves in dangerous situations. Perhaps we can go into this more in the future.

I pray the things I have written will cause you to think about and ponder the false idea of following your heart. There is only one true dependable leadership we need in our lives, and that is the true Holy Ghost. God Bless You.

Written by Bro. Paul LaFontaine

[SpamBoy]

you pasted the whole article? :crazy: ;-)

here is a link directly http://yqnews.org/node/135
fyi, you can comment to the article as well. (scroll to the bottom of the page.)

-SpamBoy
w00t!

[SisTrev]

What are you doing in girl talk?!!! Be gone!!!!!!!

[Sara]

EXACTLY!

:shuriken:

[Babyruth]

Out! Out! :chris: :ninja:

[AgapZoe]

Lol..........Spam boy...we gotta spam you outta here soon enough! lol

Anyhow,that was a great one by bro Lafontaine,Sarah!

[SpamBoy]

grrrr.... sorry for the post. DOH!
I wish JoeC could set it up so I couldn't see "Girl Talk".

again sorry. :012:

[NeedGod]

you are forgiven....at least by me. did you get a red for that post?

[KlosetBlonde]

:rofl: thats funny

ur gonna end up with a collection of reds
jus cant seem to stay out of here can u?

hehe

[SpamBoy]

you are forgiven....at least by me. did you get a red for that post?

yes. :012: --- can whoever gave me them stop laughing at me and remove them? pleeeeeeeeeeeeease!

thats funny

ur gonna end up with a collection of reds
jus cant seem to stay out of here can u?

hehe

nope. :crazy::crazy:

stop repling to my post and I will stay out. :crazy2: :laugh:

[NeedGod]

ok, no one reply to his posts now so he doesnt get anymore reds.

[redeemed]

poor spamboy! i feel bad for him!:012:

[NeedGod]

oh, i do too! but i guess his points will come up sooner than later!

[redeemed]

yeah sometime! i just am SOOO tenderhearted! (well i hope i am!):)

[NeedGod]

lol, i like that last bet, atleast you hope you are, lol. i thik you are dear!:)

[redeemed]

lol namawacha! you make me laugh! thankyou!:)

[AgapZoe]

Lol...this topic doesn't sound like emotional purity to me at all!
(tee hee,sounds more of humorous purity* and psychological impurity* ooww!)

God bless you all saints!

[redeemed]

i guess you're right! didn't notice we had gotten so off track!

[AgapZoe]

Guess that's what many a people have stereotyped as a commercial break!* this one is rahter long! lol

[redeemed]

no kidding! maybe if the person who started this thread (oh dearest cousin i yell at the top of my voice) would actually post on here we'd stay on track.
then again when are any of these threads on track! lol jk! i should try to get his princess to get on here more often

[collegegirl]

As for emotional purity, I really am going to have to look for the book, as I could really use that about now....

[NeedGod]

me too. i need to clean myself up real nice nice inside. i am going to get a vacuum cleaner for the insides so i can get all cleaned up inside.