Worshipping Ladies Community Group
This group is for Christian women only. We seek to love and encourage one another with the compassion Christ gives us.
Philippians 4:8 (NLT)
“ 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.”
Excerpts taken from Max Lucado’s book “Anxious for nothing”:
There are many things in life in which you have no choice. But the greatest activity of life is well within your dominion. You can choose what you think about.
You can be the air traffic controller of your mental airport. You can occupy the control tower and can direct the mental traffic of your world. Thoughts circle above, coming and going. If one of them lands, it is because you gave it permission. If it leaves, it is because you directed it to do so. You can select your thought pattern.
For this reason the wise urges, “Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life” (Proverbs 4:23 NCV). Do you really want to be happy tomorrow? Then sow seeds of happiness today. (Count blessings. Memorize Bible verses. Pray. Sing hymns. Spend time encouraging people.) Do you want to guarantee tomorrow’s misery? Then wallow in a mental mud pit of self-pity or guilt or anxiety today. (Assume the worst. Beat yourself up. Rehearse your regrets. Complain to complainers.) Thoughts have consequences.
….the devil is always messing with our minds. He comes as a thief “with the sole intention of steeling and killing and destroying.” (John 10:10 PHILLIPS) He brings only doom and gloom. … Satan is the master of deceit. But he is not the master of your mind. You have a power he cannot defeat. You have God on your side.
So “fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right , and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about that are excellent and worthy of praise.” (Phil. 4:8 NLT)
...Lay claim to every biblical promise you can remember, and set out to learn a few more. Grip them for the life preservers they are. Give Satan no quarter. Give his lies no welocme. "Fasten the belt of truth around your waist." (Eph. 6:14 NRSV)
----Max Lucado, “Anxious for nothing,” page 121-125.
John 10:10 New King James Version (NKJV)
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.