Success is a sense of well-being based upon having of health built into your life. Right produce right feelings. Motion results in emotion. If you wait to feel right to do right, you will most likely never move in the right direction. False Sources of Success Achievements—what you accomplish in life: your career, personal pursuits. Affluence—what you accumulate: the money and possessions you acquire. Accolades—what others say about you: the recognition, awards, respect, and status people give to you. Amusement—the fun, relaxation, pleasure, or adventure you enjoy. 3 Areas the Enemy Attacks Us in Our Emotions Having emotional health in these areas contributes to healthy success. —Am I loved? (Mark 15:34) —Am I valued? (Matthew 27:39-40; Luke 23:35-37) —When people wrong us (Luke 23:34) Healthfully Handling Our Emotions and on our emotions instead of reacting to or stuffing them What am I feeling? And what am I feeling about that feeling? What am I sad about? Glad about? Angry about? Anxious about? Where in my body am I feeling tension or stress (e.g., shoulders, neck, stomach)? What might this be telling me about what is going on inside me? Why am I experiencing each emotion? 2. Identify negative, false - Matthew 4:1-11 Some voices come from people, some from the devil. Satan attacked Jesus’ identity and lured him with false success sources Gaining victory over the voices that lie and limit us your identity upon being a beloved child of God—Matthew 3:17 The worth of something is by what someone pays for it. God paid the greatest price for us, the death of His Son. the negative lies with the Word of God—Matthew 4:4,7,10 Infractions—Matthew 5:44 False markers of success—Ecclesiastes 2:1-11; 5:10-11 Your identity—see Building Your Identity on the Word handout