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 the transcendent

peace of God. Welcome to the first of teen podcast. Our very 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 either 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 has 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 mulling over conversations that could have been better or different. If we truly trusted God as the perfect

provider of our finances and possessions, we wouldn't spend so much time overwhelming ourselves

with all the different financial opportunities available or not available to us. If we truly trusted God with our futures,

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