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Truth For Life Daily Program

The Power of Negative Thinking (Part 1 of 2)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

Religion & Spirituality, Alister, Truth, Bible, Parkside, Allister, Begg, Truthforlife, Teaching, Alistair, Christianity, For, Life

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🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Negative thinking sounds like a bad thing—but find out how, when, and why saying no can be the best response when doing God’s work God’s way. Join us as we continue a study in the book of Nehemiah on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.

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0:00.0

Most of us don't like having to say no, but today

0:29.5

on Truth for Life we'll find out how and when and why, saying no, may be the best

0:35.4

response when we are doing God's work, God's way. Alistair Begg is continuing our

0:41.1

study in the book of Nehemiah with the message he's titled The Power of Negative

0:45.9

Thinking.

0:47.5

Heavenly Father our need of you is great in fact it's total because it's total

1:00.7

futility for us to think of spending this next period of time simply listening to

1:07.7

our man's voice, expounding views and news. So we ask that in and through and

1:18.2

beyond that voice and in and through and beyond the pages of scripture which we

1:25.4

open now we may hear you speak and in speaking we might be given grace to

1:34.9

respond in faith and in obedience to the glory of Jesus. Amen. We resume our studies

1:48.3

this morning where we left off last time, namely at the 14th verse of chapter 5, we've

1:54.1

been trying to go all the way through chapter 5 and we're unsuccessful and so we

1:59.7

need to pick it up at that point. Having dealt with chapter 5 in its fullness

2:07.1

in preparation for last time and then coming back to chapter 6 to start a fresh

2:13.2

for this time, I really wasn't sure of how to go at the whole procedure, how

2:19.0

possibly to try and tie it all together. And what I want to do this morning is to

2:25.0

focus on the importance of the correct usage of one of the most employed words of

2:32.0

the English language, a word which tiny children learn to say quickly in

2:37.1

defiance and most of us as growing up children find difficult to say in discipline

2:43.3

and the word is no, no. What we have in these verses before us this morning is

2:49.3

we're going to see is a lesson in how and when and why to say no. When Paul

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