Joyce Meyer’s main theme is that although feelings can be very strong and demanding, you do not have to let them rule your life. Opening with a quote from Jonatan Mårtensson: “Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.” Living Beyond Your Feelings shows you how.

The answer, she demonstrates, is in making decisions not on your own emotions and feelings, but on God’s Word so that you can live each day with an indescribable peace and joy, enjoying a more stable life and more satisfying relationships with family, friends and colleagues.

As you read the book, Joyce asks you to make decisions, write them down and confess them out loud as your first step to taking control of your life and feelings. The principles she proposes “agree with God’s Word and will put you in a position of authority rather than one of a slave,” she says. “You can have victory rather than being a victim. You don’t have to wait to see how you feel every day before you know how you will act.”

The practical guides and scriptural instructions are designed to help you make decisions based on biblical wisdom, not feelings, understand how your personality triggers your emotions, shed the guilt and fear from your past and grow into good emotions that stay in balance.

“I believe,” says the author, “this book will help you understand yourself better than ever before and also equip you to make decisions that will release God’s best into your life.”