Belief and behavior are linked. Because human motives are complicated, cause and effect can be bi-directional between belief and behavior.
It has been said: "If you act enthusiastic, you will feel enthusiastic."
And Brother acting and feeling is not it.
I say this because feelings from acting thinking is deceiving:
Such as in the middle of winter, you have the heater on and are at 78% F, you open your front door and what happens, what do you feel?
All that 30% F cold weather just came in and you feel the cold right? It feels like the cold weather overtook you and you get cold, feelings right?
What in truth actually happened? The heat left the room after the cold attacking the cold. Heat, energy always travels from a warmer place to a colder one, that is just fact. As God does the same in the light overtakes the darkness.
So when my feelings tell me something, I need to check truth that is hidden by my feelings.
The battle is the emotions and the truth. Emotions do not know any right or wrong, they only predictably respond to thought(s) and one reacts whether the thought is truth or not
Ever been in a scary movie and been startled, ones emotions responded to that scene, and one knows it is only a movie right? Yet our emotions predictably respond to what one's mind is thinking at the time and all of a sudden and we respond to a lie, or the lie
So the battlefield is one's mind field, of one's thoughts that control us. And so now therefore is why God said would be wise for us to:
Romans 12:2
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your
mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
From love (God's) to see through the eye gate of God, the creator of all. So me when I personally asked for this. Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! beyond anyone's understanding in receiving the peace, that no man can explain
is absolutely freeing to all stress and worry,
It is the peace, love, beyond understanding, that no mankind can explain, It just is what it is. Praying we all see this type of love that transcends all unbderstanding