A Peaceful Thought-Life

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today we will 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. Today we’ll dive a little 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.

Our Scripture for today comes from Romans 8:6, and today's worship is Agnus Dei / King of Kings by Hillsong Worship.

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0:00.0	Today we'll explore how to have a peaceful thought life as we continue our week on transcendent peace.
0:11.0	The Bible speaks very specifically about our minds and how important it is to have control over our thoughts.
0:18.0	So today we'll dive a little bit deeper into those biblical concepts, and I hope
0:22.6	we each walk away, better equipped to face life's trials with the transcendent peace of God.
0:29.3	Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Our verse for today comes from Romans 8, verse 6.
0:48.3	Scripture says,
0:50.3	For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace.
1:01.0	Your thought life can either be a place of peace and life, or a source of immense internal struggle and despair.
1:09.8	It's our thoughts that the enemy tries to affect with half-truths
1:14.2	and outright lies. It's our thoughts that are the gateway to our emotions and actions. And it's
1:21.6	our thoughts our loving father longs to influence, redeem, and renew that we might experience everlasting peace.
1:32.1	Isaiah 263 says, you keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in
1:39.9	you. Do you long for perfect peace today? Do you long to keep your minds stayed on the inexpressible
1:48.6	excellencies of Jesus? It all starts with trust. When we allow our minds to stray into worry, doubt,
1:59.1	fear, reservation, and lies.
2:02.1	It's because we don't trust that God is who he says he is,
2:05.8	or that he will do what he says he'll do.
2:11.0	If we truly trusted God with our relationships,
2:14.5	we wouldn't spend so much energy mulling over conversations that could have been better or different.
2:21.3	If we truly trusted God as the perfect provider of our finances and possessions,
2:27.7	we wouldn't spend so much time overwhelming ourselves with all the different financial opportunities available or not available to us.
2:37.6	If we truly trusted God with our futures, we wouldn't devote so much of our minds to playing out
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