This new series describes how the choices we make in spite of our feelings can make all the difference in the world.

Our own thoughts, ideas and feelings are often contrary to what God would have us to do. When we are born again, God gives us His power to become truly clean inside and to do things His way. In this article, Nancy Missler begins to explain how.

Living the genuine Christian life is not about doing good things or about fixing ourselves. It is about learning to exchange our life for Christ's, moment by moment setting ourselves aside so that He can live through us. How do we do that?

What do we do when our feelings to not match up with what we know is the right thing to do?

Nancy Missler considers where sin starts, and what we need to do to avoid making sinful choices.

As humans, we have two different kinds of wills, our natural desires and wants, and our non-emotional decisions. Making faith choices, regardless of our emotions, is the key to freedom in our lives. But, we need God's strength...

We often don't know what is the right thing to do when making decisions, but the Spirit of God is our Counselor, our helper and guide to make the best decisions for each situation.

What good is knowing what God's will is if we don't have the strength or the power to carry that will out?

Throughout Scripture, God is alerting us to the fact that the battle for our lives is really waged in our minds as we are to 'take every thought captive.'

What is the key to being honest through and through, a Christian who truly shines God's love with no faking or hypocrisy?

How can we choose to do what God has asked, when we really don't feel like it, want to or think it will work? Will God honor something we choose by faith, but really don't feel?

Can we choose to go 'against the tide' and do what God has asked when we really don't feel like it, want to or even think it will work? Will God honor a choice like this?

If we doubt God's Love for us, we won't have the confidence to surrender ourselves and each situation to Him in total trust, limiting our ability to love others as well as our ability to experience His personal touch on our own lives.

While they may be our first response, emotional choices in our Christian walk, no matter how we look at them, are lethal for many reasons...

When we make 'fleshly' choices based on our own wild emotions, rather than making faith choices to obey God, His Spirit is grieved and becomes quenched within us.

Our moment-by-moment choices determine whose life will be lived in our souls: either God's or our own.

Our moment-by-moment choices determine whose life will be lived in our souls: either God's or our own.