How to Overcome Negative Thinking

Read Philippians 4:8

    Negative thinking can eat away at you like cancer. Scripture tells us that what comes out of man’s mouth is what is in his heart. Sometimes it’s negative, critical, angry, etc.. Perhaps my heart is not always black, but those times when it is, I feel sickened.
    But how can we change it? God tells us to repent, be holy just as He is holy; well that’s a tall order to fill. At times it seems downright impossible right?
    It is our obligation to study His word and learn all that He has given us about how we are to live. So just how are we to do that?
By focusing on godly things; “focus on what is pure, lovely, honorable, just, commendable, anything of excellence or anything that is worthy of praise.”
    I know that it is hard to do this sometimes, but v. 9 of this same passage goes on to say, “and what you learned and received and heard and saw in me, do these things. And the God of peace will be with you.”
    This sums it up; if we will not only learn what the Bible has to say, but APPLY it then the God of peace WILL be with us.  And what is it that Paul says? “Focus on pure, lovely…what you learned…do these things…God will be with you…”
    This is not a promise that things will be perfect, this means that we will change. We will be able to overcome the urge to be a negative thinker.
As always, God Bless you till we meet again…

 

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