Today we'll explore how to have a peaceful thought life as we continue our week on

transcendent peace. The Bible speaks very specifically about our minds and how important it is to have

control over our thoughts. So today we'll dive a little bit deeper into those biblical

concepts and I hope we each walk away better equipped to face

life's trials with a transcendent peace of God. Welcome to the First of Team

podcast. First of Team Podcast. Our verse for today comes from Romans 8 verse

6. Scripture says,

for to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace.

Your thought life can be to be a place of peace and life or a source of immense

internal struggle and despair. It's our thoughts that the enemy tries to affect with half truths and outright lies.

It's our thoughts that are the gateway to our emotions and actions.

And it's our thoughts, our loving father longs to influence, redeem, and renew that we might

experience everlasting peace.

Isaiah 263 says, you keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts

in you.

Do you long for perfect peace today. Do you long to keep your mind stayed on the

inexpressible excellencies of Jesus? It all starts with trust. When we allow our minds to stray into worry, doubt, fear,

reservation and lies, it's because we don't trust that God is who he says he is,

or that he will do what he says he'll do.

If we truly trusted God with our relationships, we wouldn't spend so much energy

molling over conversations that could have been better or different.

If we truly trusted God as the perfect provider of our finances and

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