Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to the messy masterpiece podcast, which had

an Tory happy Thursday, happy Thursday, happy Thursday, y'all, or whatever day you're listening

to this podcast on, we are in day four of our reset your mind, overhauling toxic thoughts

devotional on the Bible app. There's a link to that in the description. And I'm going

to go ahead and read the two scriptures for it. And then Tory's going to read the devotional.

The first one is Colossians 3 verse 2. Think about the things of heaven, not the things

of earth. And then it's Hebrews 12 verses 1 through 3. Therefore, since we are surrounded

by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that

slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance,

the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion

who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the

cross, disregarding the shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God's throne.

Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people, then you won't become weary

and give up. The devotional is titled Fix Your Thoughts. It says, testing our thoughts

and learning to take them captive is a huge part of the mental battle we have with our

thoughts. So when we can learn to do that as a regular practice, we will gain control

over our thoughts. But what if we choose to be more proactive with our thoughts in order

to prevent reacting later on? There will still be thoughts that have to be tested and

taken captive, of course, for we are not perfect. We can, however, choose to follow through

with Paul's exhortation in Colossians 3-2, which says, set your mind on things above,

not on earthly things. In setting our mind on things above, we will have less thoughts

that need testing and being taken captive. When we set our minds, we are striving for

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