EP 65: How to Overcome Bad Thoughts

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Nearly everyone has to wrestle with negative or sinful or intrusive thoughts at one time or other, so in today's episode, we're talking strategies for overcoming bad thoughts and taking them captive to the obedience of Christ.

Show Notes VERSES CITED:

- 2 Cor. 10:5 - “We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God….”

- Psalm 19:14 - “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight...”

- Romans 12:2 - “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind....”

- 1 Cor. 10:13 - “No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind....”

- Eph 6:16-17 - "...taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows...."

- James 4:7-8 – “Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.....”

- Matthew 6:13 – “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil…”

- Isaiah 26:3 – “You will keep in perfect peace him whosemind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.”

- Psalm 23:4 – “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil....”

- Matt. 11:28 – “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

- Phil. 4:6-7 - “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving...."

- James 1:19-20 – “Let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak andslow to anger; for the anger of man....”

- Matt. 12:34-35 – “For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. The good man brings good....”

- Matt. 5:44 - “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you...."

- Gal. 5:24 – “Now those who belong to Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”

- Matt. 5 27-28 – “You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you....”

- 1 Cor. 6:18 – “Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but....”

- 2 Tim. 2:22 – “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that....”

- Romans 13:14 - “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to...."

- Phil. 4:8 - "...whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely...."

- 1 Peter 5:5 - "Dress yourselves in humility as you relate to one another, for God opposes the proud but ....”

- Prov. 16:18 - “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before fall.”

- 1 Cor. 4:7 – “What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if...."

- Phil. 2:3-5 - “Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another ...."

- Jer. 17:9 - “The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it?”

- 2 Cor. 12: 20 – “...there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.”

- 1 Tim. 5:13 – “Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers....”

- Prov. 21:23 - "Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.”

- Eph. 4:31 - "Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice."

- Col. 3:8 - "But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander...."

- 1 Peter 2:1 - "So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander."

- Eph. 4:29 – “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for...."

- James 3:14-17 – “But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart...."

- 2 Cor. 10:12 - "... measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves...."

- Col. 3:13 – “Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone....”

- Eph. 4:32 – “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”

- Heb. 12:15 – “See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to...."

- Matt. 6:14-15 – “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you....”

- Rom. 12:3 – “Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober....”

- Psalm 139:14 - "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful...."

- Genesis 1:27 - “in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

- Psalm 8:5 - "You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor."

- 1 Cor. 6:19 - “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you...."

- 2 Cor. 5:15 - "He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him...."

- Rom. 14:7 - “...none of us lives for himself and no man dies for himself.”

RELATED LINKS:

- EP 28: Bible Memory Tips

- Taking Every Thought Captive Printable

- What God Hath Promised by Annie Johnson Flint

- Praying for Your Enemies

- Screwtape Letters

- EP 11: Forgiving Fully & Freely

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