Level Up: How to Stop Defeating Thoughts

1. First observation is that our mind never stops.

2. Second observation is that our thoughts are leading us to a destination.

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. Ephesians 4:17

They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. Ephesians 4:18-19

You, however, did not come to know Christ that way. Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:20-24

1. We must take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ.

2. We must immerse ourselves in scripture.

3. Memorize scripture.

● If you think that you are unloved and unlovable.
John 3:16 says: “God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.”

● If you think your past can’t be forgiven.
Romans 8:1 says: “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

● If you think you can’t change.
2 Corinthians 5:17 says: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”

● If you were told, “you can’t do anything right.”
Philippians 4:13 says: “I can do everything through him who gives me strength.”

● If you think fear and anxiety will always rule your life.
Psalm 23:4 says: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for God is with me.”