Faith and feelings

I hear many Christians claim that to have faith in God you must throw away all reason and trust what you heart tells you, you must go by feelings. This idea seems particularly popular among charismatics for obvious reasons.   The problem with this view of faith is that you aren't having faith in Christ, you having faith in your feelings. Perhaps if the Bible taught us to trust our feelings, such a faith would be justified. However, this is not what scripture says, Jeremiah 17:9 states, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?" Faith means trusting that God has died for your sins and that He has called you to a purpose in life. We are not to work out this purpose by feelings alone. Rather we are told to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. It is only by seeking God with all of these faculties that we will find Him and what He wants with our lives.