{"id":1264,"date":"2018-11-20T19:38:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T01:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2018-11-20T19:38:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T01:38:22","slug":"daily-fixing-my-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/daily-fixing-my-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Fixing my Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philippians 4:6-8\u00a0Don\u2019t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.<\/span>\u00a0<\/sup>Then you will experience God\u2019s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.<\/span>\u00a0<\/sup>And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.<\/span><\/em>\u00a0NLT<\/p>\n

This scripture in Philippians has been a precious one to me over the years. As a young adult, I struggled to think about positive, true things. I fought battles late at night in my thoughts. I believed lies and acted upon them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It took years. And many moments of repeating these verses over and over. Clinging to the truth that God loved me. That God was not angry with me. That God wanted me whole, healed. Time and time again I needed to remember my part. Dwelling in negative thoughts was not helpful or profitable. Sitting in the darkness is not God’s desire for any of us.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, years later I am thankful for the deliverance. Thankful for the long nights in darkness that brought me to the truth and light. Thankful I grew and matured through those long days and nights.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although years have passed I still need those reminders. To fix my thoughts on what\u00a0is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>As a mom, daily I need to be reminded that I am not a failure. I make mistakes. I act in frustration and selfishness at times however God gives grace and forgiveness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many times my heart bows after a tussle\u00a0between my 3-year-old and I. I say strong things or raise my voice. But every time I come to God and cry out. He hears me and He never condemns\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I don’t need to beat myself up. I don’t need to put myself down. That is not going to help my girls either if I walk around as a defeated mommy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moms reading this today, I want you to know that you are not a failure. You have not messed everything up. There is grace and forgiveness always, as long as there is life. Hold onto what is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, and admirable. God desires for you to be whole and healed. God desires for you to walk in His truth. Instead of allowing derating phrases flow in your mind replace them with truth. Replace them with scripture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Romans 8:1-2\u00a0Therefore, there is now no condemnation\u00a0for those who are in Christ Jesus,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>because through Christ Jesus\u00a0the law of the Spirit who gives life\u00a0has set you\u00a0free\u00a0from the law of sin\u00a0and death.<\/em> NIV<\/span><\/p>\n

Matthew 6:26\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup><\/em>Look at the birds. They don\u2019t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren\u2019t you far more valuable to him than they are?<\/em> NLT<\/span><\/p>\n

1 John 1:9\u00a0If we confess our sins, he is\u00a0faithful and just to forgive us our sins and\u00a0to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.<\/span><\/em>\u00a0ESV<\/p>\n

James 4:6\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup>But He gives us more and more grace [through the power of the Holy Spirit to <\/em>defy sin and live an obedient life that reflects both our faith and our gratitude for our salvation]. Therefore, it says, \u201cGod is opposed to the proud<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0haughty, but<\/span>\u00a0[continually]\u00a0gives<\/span>\u00a0[the gift of]\u00a0grace to the humble<\/span>\u00a0[who turn away from self-righteousness].\u201d<\/em> AMP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philippians 4:6-8\u00a0Don\u2019t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.\u00a0Then you will experience God\u2019s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.\u00a0And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","sharing_disabled":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_274284761.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7NWg5-ko","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godsgoggles.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}