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

by Jennie Allen

I recently spoke to a field full of girls at Baylor University. I still am awestruck at what went down. I preached about Paul’s declaration in Romans 8:1: “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Why are we living tied down and defined by our sin when the Bible tells us we are free and there is no condemnation in Jesus? Why don’t we live as if we’re free? I challenged the girls to just shout out what they were struggling with and bring into light the dark hell they had been dealing with. To my surprise, one by one they started standing up. In the middle of their campus, they stood and shouted out one struggle after another. This went on until everyone was standing. It was beautiful. I had them get in groups and pray over each thing that had kept them from being free while I asked God what He wanted to tell them next. This is when a student came up to me and said, “I think you should tell them this no longer has power over them.”