The way you think about a problem can become part of the problem. Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

We need to remember that the battle is in the mind. The battle's in the mind. We think it's our

emotions or our circumstances or other people that are the battleground and sometimes they get

in the fray, but ultimately goes back to the way that we think.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamou, author of Adorned, for Friday, March 17, 2017. Nancy's given us a little Greek lesson, talking about being so frown or having a sound mind.

It's part of a series called God's beautiful design for women, living out Titus 2, 1 through 5.

Well, I want to continue with one more session on this whole concept of being

Sophrone. We've been having a little Greek lesson over these past few sessions, S-O-P-H-R-O-N.

It's that word that is found multiple times in the book of Titus. It's translated in the ESV as

self-controlled. If you have the New American Standard Bible,

it's translated as sensible. It's that word that means sound-minded, of sound thinking. It's a saved

mind, a sound mind, a restrained mind, a mind that is restrained by the word of God and the truth of God's word.

And as we've been talking even on a break before this session, we're saying to ourselves

that this affects everything. The way we think determines the way that we live.

And if we have a sound mind, then our emotions, our appetites, our passions, our thoughts, our words, everything will follow after our decisions, our behavior will all follow after the way that we think.

And if we don't have a sound mind, then our behavior, our words, our attitudes, our emotions, everything will follow that unsound thinking, and that's

when we end up in trouble. We've been talking about this word based on the passage in Titus 2,

that's a series of our larger study now, that tells us that older women are to train younger

women to be sober, sophronizo, it's a related word. They are to train these women to think

straight. And all of us can remember those of us who are no longer younger women. We can remember

how much as younger women we needed someone at times to come alongside of us and say, you're just

not thinking straight. In fact, those of us who are older women still need people to come alongside of us and say, you're just not thinking straight.

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