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Name: Winning the War in Your Mind
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Author: Craig Groeschel

Craig Groeschel

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

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What’s in it for me? Look up to find inner peace.

Does your daily life feel like a battle?

Every minute of the day, you're fighting your own negative thoughts and crippling self-doubt. You want to escape from the downward mental spiral but you feel trapped.

If you’re stuck in an unhappy rut, these blinks are here to help. Packed with spiritual insights as well as practical self-help tools, this is your guide to mental health the Christian way.

You’ll discover inspirational words from the Bible, and learn how God’s love and strength can support you through any crisis you face.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

why God whispers rather than shouts;
what Satan has to do with your mental health; and
how you can make peace with your troubled past.

Satan’s lies are keeping you prisoner.

The great escape artist Harry Houdini once found himself in a jail cell he couldn’t break out of. Despite his incredible skills, he just couldn't escape.

What was so different about this particular jail cell?

Houdini couldn’t break free because, when the jailer locked the door, he purposefully turned the key the wrong way. This gave Houdini the impression that he was locked in when he wasn’t. So when Houdini shifted the lock, thinking he was escaping, he was actually locking himself in. He was trapped because he believed a lie.

The key message here is: Satan’s lies are keeping you prisoner.

Of course, most of us aren't locked in an actual jail cell. Instead, we’re prisoners in our own minds, and our jailers are the lies we tell ourselves. These lies include the little voice in your head that says you’ll never be good enough, or the voice that says you’re too stupid, too lazy, or too unloveable to succeed.

These lies stop you from opening the door to your true potential. Like Houdini that day, they keep you believing that the door is locked.

If you want to break free and have the future you deserve, you need to reject these lies and embrace the truth. What truth? The truth that you are capable of achieving almost anything you set your mind to.

This battle for your headspace is the war between truth and lies. The lies that make you feel fearful and inadequate, and the truth that you are worthy of happiness and love.

So, how can you win the war in your mind?

The first step is to understand that these lies come from Satan. The Bible tells us that Satan is the father and the creator of lies, and that he’s the one who plants these terrible, self-limiting lies in your mind. Even worse, he has you thinking that they’re your own beliefs, rather than his.

You can identify the devil’s presence in your mind by making a thorough list of all the negative thoughts that run through your mind each day. It might feel uncomfortable to reflect on these things, but once you do, you can start to reject them and replace them with the truth.

God will give you the strength to change your negative beliefs.

In ancient times, when an army invaded an enemy city, they knew they had to capture the city’s stronghold. The stronghold was a guarded fortress, and it was where the enemy’s leaders would be hiding. Capture the stronghold, and you control the city.

Sadly, when it comes to the war in your mind, many people adopt a losing strategy. When they set out to change an aspect of their lives, whether it’s quitting smoking or losing weight, they try to change their behavior. They eat less, for instance, or they simply don’t buy their next pack of cigarettes.

Your brain has a tendency to fall into a mental rut.

Do you ever feel stuck in a mental rut? You want to make changes, but you can’t help doing the same negative things, over and over again.

You tell yourself that you’ll spend more time talking with your family, but you waste time on your phone all evening instead. Or you tell yourself that you’ll think more positively, but the next time you hit a minor setback you start thinking you’ll always be a victim.

Your truth trench will be created from the word of God.

To win the war in your mind, you must identify the neural pathways that support your negative thoughts, and lay down new, helpful pathways in their place. Whereas the old pathways represented your mental rut and Satan’s lies, your new pathways will be your truth trench.

You might think a rut and a trench don’t sound all that different, but think again. A rut is something slippery and dangerous that you fall into, whereas a trench is something you dig purposefully. It has meaning and it can change your life.

Your warped perspective blinds you to the truth.

Imagine you’re about to go to a party with a friend. Just before you go inside, your friend tells you that everyone at the party thinks you're stupid. Throughout the evening, you see people joking around, and assume they’re laughing at you.

After the party, your friend tells you she was just kidding, and that no one there thought you were stupid at all. Despite this confession, the lie she told ruined your night.

Thank God for what He didn’t do for you.

The author’s childhood dream was to play professional baseball. By the time he was in eighth grade, he was the star of his little league team, and it was starting to look as if his dream might come true.

But then disaster struck. The night before a big game, his fingers were crushed and broken by a fast ball. Traumatized by his experience, he didn’t venture back onto the pitch.

When you can’t stand your suffering any longer, God will come to you.

Have you ever felt like you’ve just had enough? Sure, you can deal with one thing going wrong, or maybe even two, but sometimes the problems in life just keep coming until you feel suffocated.

In our darkest moments, we often shout out to God, and all we want is for Him to shout back and let us know that He’s there. But God doesn’t shout, He whispers. You need to take a moment to be quiet so that you can hear Him.

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Winning the War in Your Mind (2021) explores how God’s word can improve your mental health. It unpacks the ancient wisdom of the Bible and explains why its verses are still relevant today.

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Über den Autor

Craig Groeschel is a New York Times best-selling author and the founder and senior pastor of Life.Church. Not only is Life.Church one of the world’s biggest churches, it's also the creator of the YouVersion Bible App, which has been downloaded 465 million times.

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