Addictions – What are you thinking?

Pew2You

April 7, 2019

Pastor Phil Vance

Highlights:
- 21-Day Brain Detox Plan
  - Gather your thoughts: take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ (2 Cor. 10:5).
  - Have focused reflection: be transformed by the renewing of your mind through repentance, forgiveness, and accurate biblical thinking.
  - Journal: write about your process of capturing negative thoughts and replacing them with God’s thoughts
  - Revisit and replace: review often God’s truth in scripture to replace the toxic thought
  - Take an action step: choose to think about whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–anything that is excellent or praiseworthy (Phil. 4:8).
Discussion Questions:
- What are some of the negative thoughts that regularly circle through your mind?
- Is there anyone you should confess to or ask forgiveness of?
- What are some biblical truths that can replace the toxic thought you have been thinking?
- Is there a place or a time you can you daily review God’s promises to you? (i.e. I can review God’s truth each morning as I brush my teeth because I’ve written it on a 3×5 card and stuck it to my mirror).
Key Scriptures, Quotes and Definitions
- Proverbs 23:7a “For as he thinks within himself, so he is.”
- 2 Corinthians 10:5 “We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,”
- Romans 12:2 “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”
- Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.”