Welcome to Replay Friday at Keep the Heart. I've been traveling to promote the new book,

Apply, Living What We Learn, a 31-day devotional, which is why our new recordings have been

limited lately. Visit the shop at keeptheheart.com for this daily devotional and more, but don't

worry, we have plenty of episodes in the archives.

This week's episode, Four Ways to Stop Double-mindedness, was very popular in season three.

Double-mindedness over-complocates our lives, so it is worth it for us to learn how to avoid

this unhelpful habit. Let's listen to this episode again.

Here's a common scenario. You've been going back and forth in your mind, having a monologue with

yourself that alternates between lecturing and venting. You know what you should do, and then you

change your mind.

Back and forth, back and forth, the internal speech goes until you finally realize that you are riding the fence on your decision.

This is another way of saying you're double-minded, and it's uncomfortable. Welcome to Keep the Heart podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker known for sharing biblical insights that are practical and inspiring.

Now back to today's valuable study. What does it mean to be double-minded?

The Strong's Concordance defines it as two-spirited, two as in the number two. It also goes on to

define it as wavering, doubting, and uncertain. We're going back and forth on

an issue in our opinion, our purpose, or both. This phrase appears only twice in the New Testament,

and both times they're in the book of James. I caught myself being double-minded about a very

important matter recently, and I didn't want to

accept the title. After all, it's not complimentary. Listen to the bottom line from James

1, verse 8. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. The scripture is plain.

Granted, now this verse was speaking about asking God for wisdom without wavering, but it applies to any area where we're wavering. Let's consider four

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