Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

by Jennie Allen

Be transformed by the renewal of your mind. —ROMANS 12:2 This means it’s possible.

taking control of our minds could be the key to finding peace in the other parts of our lives.

Our emotions were leading us to thoughts, and those thoughts were dictating our decisions, and our decisions were determining behaviors, and then the behaviors were shaping our relationships, all of which would take us back to either healthy or unhealthy thoughts. Round and round and round we go, spinning down, seemingly out of control, our lives becoming defined by this endless cycle. Depressing. Unless. Unless there is a way to interrupt it.

The greatest spiritual battle of our generation is being fought between our ears. What we believe and what we think about matters, and the enemy knows it. And he is determined to get in your head to distract you from doing good and to sink you so deep that you feel helpless, overwhelmed, shut down, and incapable of rising to make a difference for the kingdom of God.

No human is ever meant to be the person who fills our souls or holds in place our worth. Only God can do that. But until I throw off the lie that God’s love isn’t for me, my emotions, decisions, behaviors, and relationships will remain twisted up in the mistaken belief that I’m worthless.

Doubt steals hope. And with no hope, everything that matters doesn’t feel as important anymore.

The danger of toxic thinking is it produces an alternate reality, one in which distorted reasoning actually seems to make sense.

Because alone in the dark the devil can tell you whatever the hell he wants.

if our thought lives are the deepest, darkest places of stronghold within us, all hell will try to stop us from being free.

If we want to stop our patterns of toxic thinking, we must notice what’s happening and take action,

Taking every thought captive is not about what happens to us. It’s about choosing to believe that God is with us, is for us, and loves us even when all hell comes against us.

Quiet time isn’t so quiet, is it? Our heads actually get noisier when the noise all around us falls away.

Loneliness can make us think that everything is a threat, even if there is no real threat to be found.

no matter how your life looks today, no matter what tomorrow holds, God does care for us.

we always have a choice. We may not choose the situations and the people in our lives, but we can choose how we react. We get to choose how our minds, and therefore our lives, will go.