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Jennie Allen
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December 5 - December 29, 2023
We have bought the lie that we are victims of our thoughts rather than warriors equipped to fight on the front lines of the greatest battle of our generation: the battle for our minds.
Because how we think shapes how we live.2
3 Did you know that research shows that “75 to 98 percent of mental, physical, and behavioral illness comes from one’s thought life”?4
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.
The reality is that our emotions are a by-product of something else. Our emotions are a by-product of the way we think.
The average person has more than thirty thousand thoughts per day. Of those, so many are negative that “according to researchers, the vast majority of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of a toxic thought life.”7
Every lie we buy into about ourselves is rooted in what we believe about 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.
“We are coming for you,” she said in an urgent whisper. “You need to quit talking about us. We are coming for you.”
I knew exactly who was screaming, and I knew exactly what this was about.
to doubt their career choices. Or they doubt whether they married the right person. Or they doubt their purpose in life. But what I was doubting went right to the core of who I was: I doubted the existence of God.
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.
