Good to Great in God's Eyes - Think Great Thoughts, Part 2
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
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Summary
If you want to change for the better there are seven key areas that you must cultivate in your thought life. In this message, Chip explains those key areas in a message he calls “Think Great Thoughts.”
Main Points Introduction: “We are what we eat…”- It’s true physically.
- It’s true psychologically.
- It’s true spiritually.
Practice: Think Great Thoughts!
I. Since we are a product of our thought life, God commands us to “Think Great thoughts.” --Philippians 4:8-9- The Command is to think/dwell on these things.
- Logizomai – to consider, think on, reckon, to deduce, to reason, calculate, and ponder; to deliberate upon through protracted analysis and thought.
- The amazing story of George Dzundra
- God --Romans 11:33
- Yourself --Zephaniah 3:17
- Others --1 Samuel 16:7
- Life --Luke 9:23-25
- The Future --Jeremiah 29:11
- The Past --Philippians 3:13-14
- Challenges --James 1:2-4
- Memorize and meditate on the 3x5 cards you make from the above scriptures.
- Use drive time.
- Listen to great music.
- Take walks in nature.
- Personalize truth of promises and Scripture to address your own personal areas of growth (3x5 cards).
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know why most people want to change but rarely do? |
| 0:05.0 | It's because they focus on the wrong thing. |
| 0:07.0 | They often focus on a behavior they want to change. |
| 0:10.0 | They focus on emotions they want to change. |
| 0:12.0 | But behavior and emotions always go back to something deeper, are thoughts. |
| 0:17.0 | Thinking great thoughts is the key to real transformation. If you want to learn to think |
| 0:22.2 | great thoughts, you're not going to want to miss today. Thanks for listening to this edition |
| 0:28.1 | of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. Living on the Edge is an international teaching |
| 0:33.3 | and discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:38.3 | You know, most people would agree we don't want to waste our time thinking mediocre thoughts. |
| 0:43.5 | That's why today, Chip will continue challenging us to think great thoughts |
| 0:47.2 | as he picks up in our series Good to Great in God's Eyes. |
| 0:50.9 | Well, he has a lot to teach us on this subject, so grab your Bible and go to Philippians chapter 4 as we jump right back into the second half of this vital talk. |
| 1:00.2 | I want to give you some very specific ways to learn to think great thoughts. Okay? I'm not going to |
| 1:05.5 | leave you with, oh gosh, I'm going to try real hard, think great thoughts, or I guess I'm going to have to memorize the book of Matthew, James, Colossians. It's a good idea, but I doubt if many of us are going to go there overnight. |
| 1:15.9 | So what I want to talk with you about is seven areas to cultivate great thinking. |
| 1:21.8 | And I'm going to touch on them, and then at the end I'm going to give you a little game plan. |
| 1:26.5 | I believe it's really, really crucial |
| 1:28.9 | that we think great thoughts. We need to think great thoughts about God. I've just given you |
| 1:36.1 | one verse. Now, I will say, for you second milers, if you had a three by five card somewhere, |
| 1:41.4 | you could say, think great thoughts about God. And then when no one's |
| 1:45.8 | looking, you could write Romans 11, 33. And by the way, I only put 33, but you might want to put |
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