Get Out of Your Head

Our emotions are a by-product of the way we think.

The danger of toxic thinking is it produces an alternate reality, one in which distorted reasoning actually seems to make sense.

This isn’t who you are—simple truths, spoken in love, can break strongholds of doubt and remind us of our identity in God.

We have a choice because we are conquerors who possess weapons to destroy strongholds.

The reality is that our emotions are a by-product of something else. Our emotions are a by-product of the way we think.

Quiet time isn’t so quiet, is it? Our heads actually get noisier when the noise all around us falls away... Yet, the God who created the universe wants to be with you in your pain, doubt, and shame.

Gradually we embrace the lie that we have to do life on our own, that we must isolate ourselves to avoid risking exposure and rejection.

Anxiety says, ‘What if?’...But our tool for defeating ‘what if’ is found in two words: ‘Because God.

When we’re weak, it’s actually a good thing, because Christ’s power is made more evident in us.

Every lie we buy into about ourselves is rooted in what we believe about God.Doubt steals hope. And with no hope, everything that matters doesn’t feel as important anymore.

We have bought the lie that we are victims of our thoughts rather than warriors equipped to fight.

The singular, interrupting thought is this one: I have a choice.

What we think about, our brains become.

No fixation exists outside God’s long-armed reach. Every spiral can be interrupted.

Through Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross, God has rendered the fights we face His fights too... Victory? It’s already yours.

When we say out loud what’s in our thoughts, when we reveal our dark struggles, we take them captive and break their power.

God purposefully places us in community so that our friends can help us in the battle for our thought lives.

Anxiety says, ‘What if?’... But our tool for defeating ‘what if’ is found in two words: ‘Because God.

Cynicism at its root is a refusal to believe that God is in control and God is good.

God holds my faith in place. What is real? God is real. He is not going anywhere, even if my mind jumps to all kinds of dark places.

Beauty interrupts us, it awakens us, it undoes us, it cuts us open, and restarts our hearts. Beauty points our gaze toward the heavens and reminds us of hope.

When we realize we’ve bought into the lie of our own greatness and we make the shift to choose humility... we put God in His rightful place.

When we’re weak, it’s actually a good thing because Christ’s power is made more evident in us.

Refusing to be a slave to our circumstances doesn’t mean we don’t fight for what’s right; it means we fight from a place of reconciliation, of peace, of love.

Our culture’s idea about freedom is doing whatever we want, but those seasons often turn out to be our least content.

Our brains are hardwired to thrive when we are serving others.

Each thought you think matters a lot. From creation to completion, your thoughts physiologically, scientifically, indisputably change your brain in ten minutes.

Because Jesus chose... you and I can choose to do the same. We’re only ten minutes away from a fresh start.

We have a choice between chaos and quiet, between noise and solitude with God, between denial and healing.

Every lie we buy into about ourselves is rooted in what we believe about God.