The Renewed Mind
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Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
(Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) to help with:
- eating disorders
- depression
- anxiety
- PTSD
- substance use disorder
- mental illness
- marital problems
1. Confront your negative thinking
1. Confront your negative thinking
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror;
For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like.
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
2. Identify what God says about you.
2. Identify what God says about you.
The entrance of Your words gives light;
It gives understanding to the simple.
Break open your word within me until revelation-light shines out!
Those with open hearts are given insight into your plans.
3. Take responsibility for your own perceptions – reframe the ones that are negative
3. Take responsibility for your own perceptions – reframe the ones that are negative
You have to own your victory!
Blame is the nature of sinful man.
Write out a Confession of Faith
4. The Word of God becomes the Plumb line
4. The Word of God becomes the Plumb line
Justice will be the measuring line for the foundation, and honesty will be its plumb line.”
Hailstorms will sweep away all the lies you depend on, and floods will destroy your security.
Amos 7:7–8 (NKJV)
Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand. And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.”
Then the Lord said: “Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.
5. Confess the activating belief. Be Consistent!
5. Confess the activating belief. Be Consistent!
63 days to change behavior
63 days to change behavior
