Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, March 13th.

Are your thoughts helping you or holding you back?

Today's podcast wraps up a message from Colossians chapter 3, focused on controlling your thoughts.

You and I live in a society and in a time, in a culture that our minds are continuously bombarded by what?

Things that we see on the television and the movies, things we read in the newspapers, things, or other things that we read, for example, words that you hear, sites that you see, our mind is always receiving all of these things. Sometimes that's good,

sometimes it's not so good. The question is, how can you and I live a godly life and think right

when we live in a world that's throwing all of these things that are not right at our mind?

So I want you to listen very carefully. What you think today

is affecting your life more than you realize. Who you are today is the result of what you've been

thinking all these years of your life. And what you think today is going to determine where you're going to be tomorrow.

And what you're going to be tomorrow because you see, it's our thoughts that cause us to become what we are.

It's our thoughts that influence our relationships, our choice of occupation, our marriage part. It's our thoughts that cause us to move in a certain

direction, make certain decisions, that affect their finances, that affect every aspect of our life,

that affect their relationship to Jesus Christ.

Our thoughts are powerful mediums.

Now, the problem is, how do I face these situations and circumstances

and listen to these words and all the bombardment that Satan and all of his outfit throws

at us day by day? How can I face that? And at the same time, do what he says, that is, keep on seeking

him, set my mind on him.

And remember this, the mind is like the pilot.

The mind's like where the radar is.

This is the captain of your life.

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