Practical Ways to Take Your Thoughts Captive

No one is exempt from having poor thoughts. If you ever listen to interviews with athletes like Michael Jordan, you'll notice that even "the greats" have had their bouts. What sets them apart, oftentimes, is they find the resolve to disregard those poisonous thoughts and get the job done. 

You and I may not have MJ's basketball skills but we can take our thoughts captive and live life in freedom. In this week's podcast episode we chat about:

5 practical ways to take our thoughts captive,Bible verses to help us remember God's goodness and live as overcomers, why we need to hide the Word of God in our hearts, and more!

Scriptures

I will be with you when you pass through the waters, and when you pass through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. You will not be scorched when you walk through the fire, and the flame will not burn you. Isaiah 43:2 HCSB

For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures. Romans 15:4 HCSB

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 1 Timothy 1:7 NKJV

This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; you are to meditate on it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do. Joshua 1:8 HCSB

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2 ESV

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

“I can choose to be led by emotions or I can choose to believe God’s truth. ”

— JAQUETTE GILBERT

 

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Resources

The Weekly Check-in journal - a quarterly faith-based journal for Christian women (details and waitlist here)

The Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer

 

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