Welcome to the sixth day in a week of encouragements that will bring you “7 super easy keys to wipe out worry!”

Learning to think more like God is a sixth way to wipe out worry!

Changing the way that we think changes our perspective, which changes how we speak. Our minds are powerful and our thoughts shape who we are and who we will become: our words, our actions, our decisions, our emotions, our health, our prosperity - in fact, everything.

A great example of this at work in my life was when I was teaching teenagers. At the beginning of term I gave them all a sheet printed with affirmations, such as: ‘You are strong’; ‘You are great’; ‘You are clever’; ‘You are beautiful’; ‘You are able’ - things like that. At first the students stared at the page with horror and disbelief. I asked them to highlight the statements that they thought most reflected themselves. It provoked a wide range of emotional responses! After they had completed them, I took all the sheets in and told them I would look at them. For my homework I would do a sheet highlighting what I saw in them. The following lesson I gave them back their own sheet and then the sheet that I had done for each of them. The students were amazed! The revelation of how I saw them completely changed their self esteem, the way they talked and the way they behaved.

“Don’t copy the behaviour and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect His will really is.”

(Romans 12 verse 2 New Living Translation)

God’s word teaches us that the way we think changes the physical nature of our brain. Science has caught up with this principle, which it calls “neuroplasticity” - the ability of the brain to form and reorganise synaptic connections especially in response to learning or experience or injury. When we consciously direct our thinking away from worry, we can rewire our toxic patterns of thinking, replacing them with healthy mindsets. 

“For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.”

(Proverbs 23 verse 7 New King James Version)

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Full of Love and Joy,

Marian ❤️