The big picture here is this: We have chaotic thought lives. This promise of wielding power over our thoughts sounds great, doesn’t it? Yet I sense a small question from you:

And in so doing, we can wield our power for good and for God, slaying strongholds left and right. Paul tells us that we don’t have to live this way, that we can take captive our thoughts. Christ Gives Us Power over Our Thought Lives Yet we walk around acting as if we have no power over what we allow into our minds.

We have the power and authority to do this! Here’s what I take from these words: You and I have been equipped with power from God to tear down the strongholds in our minds, to destroy the lies that dominate our thought patterns. Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity.” ( 2 Corinthians 10:5-6, MSG) “We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. In what may be the most provocative explanation in Paul’s entire New Testament litany of provocative explanations, the apostle had this to say: Paul now had the power of the Spirit-the same power that raised Jesus from the dead, and he chose to live aware of and under that power. Paul now chose to live aware of the power of Christ in him, through him, and for him. No longer was he a slave to his circumstances or his emotions. Paul experienced a massive shift, and now he was a totally different man. “To me to live is Christ,” Paul wrote in Philippians 1:21, “and to die is gain.” It’s all-always-about Christ. He stopped the things that had distracted him and let himself focus on one simple thing:

There was no other hope, no other narrative, no other track playing in the background. After the scales fell from his eyes, Paul’s life and mind centered on an entirely new reality. The Apostle Paul’s own life was a picture of interruption. Photo Credit: © Getty Images/tadamichi How to Interrupt the Toxic Spiral What if one thought held the power to interrupt our spirals and bring peace to our mental chaos? 'The spiral is real and stuffed with more thoughts than it seems we can manage.' Of those, so many are negative that “according to researchers, the vast majority of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of a toxic thought life.” The average person has more than thirty thousand thoughts per day.

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