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The Bible Effect | Taking Thoughts Captive · Divine515 Podcast

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  - What if prayer became more than something you
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  - do?
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  - What if it became the way you live?
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  - Life can be overwhelming.
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  - The pressures are real.
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  - The questions
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  - are constant,
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  - and sometimes,
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  - it feels like you're carrying more than you
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  - were ever meant to carry alone.
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  - The inner chamber was created for those who
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  - desire more than occasional inspiration.
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  - It's a community for believers who want to
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  - build a consistent prayer life,
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  - grow in God's word, and walk alongside others,
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  - pursuing a deeper relationship with Christ.
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  - Inside the inner chamber, you'll find guided prayer
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  - experiences that help you apply scripture to everyday
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  - life,
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  - monthly biblical teachings that strengthen your faith,
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  - practical prayer strategies for life's real challenges,
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  - and a supportive community that encourages prayers and
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  - grows together.
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  - You don't have to figure out your prayer
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  - journey alone.
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  - Come discover what happens when believers gather with
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  - one purpose,
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  - to know God
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  - more deeply and walk with him more closely.
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  - Visit divine515.com
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  - to learn more and become part of the
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  - inner chamber community.
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  - Prayer isn't simply something we do. It's how
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  - we walk with God every day.
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  - Welcome to the divine five one five podcast.
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  - Here is today's prayer.
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  - Hello, and welcome to daily prayers with Valerie
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  - Rocha.
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  - This September, our theme is how to study
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  - the Bible. So it changes your life.
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  - We've learned how to move from reading scripture
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  - to understanding it and from knowing God's word
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  - to actually living it.
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  - This week, we're focusing on renewing your mind
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  - through God's word.
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  - We'll address the thoughts that shape our everyday
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  - lives, including worry comparison,
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  - negative self talk,
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  - discouragement, and the mental noise that can make
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  - God's truth difficult to hear.
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  - More importantly, we'll learn how scripture gives us
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  - truth to stand on how prayer helps us
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  - apply that truth when our thoughts begin pulling
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  - us in another direction.
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  - Because transformation
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  - isn't only about changing what we do.
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  - God also wants to transform how we think,
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  - and that leads us to our key scripture
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  - for this week.
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  - Romans twelve two,
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  - do not confirm to the pattern of this
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  - world,
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  - but be transformed
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  - by the renewing of your mind.
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  - This week's prayer strategy. We're going to be
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  - focusing on
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  - catch it, check it and change it.
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  - When a troubling thought keeps repeating itself this
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  - week,
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  - catch it. What am I thinking?
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  - Check it.
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  - Does this thought agree with what God says?
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  - Change it.
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  - What scripture can I pray instead?
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  - Then turn that scripture into a personal prayer.
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  - The goal isn't to pretend difficult thoughts don't
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  - exist.
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  - It's to stop allowing
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  - every thought to have authority over you.
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  - The first
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  - focus we're going to be dealing with for
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  - today
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  - is if you can't stop
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  - thinking negative thoughts,
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  - how to renew your mind with God's word.
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  - Scripture text for today is Philippians four eight.
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  - Whatever is true, whatever is noble,
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  - whatever is right, whatever is pure.
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  - Think about such things.
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  - One negative thought can finally become an entire
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  - conversation in our minds.
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  - I'll never get this right.
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  - Nothing is going to change. I can't handle
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  - this.
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  - The more often we repeat a thought,
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  - the more believable
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  - it can begin to sound,
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  - but not every thought deserves our agreement.
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  - Yet when we're tired,
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  - disappointed,
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  - or under pressure, it's easy to accept our
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  - thoughts as truth without examining them against God's
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  - word.
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  - Prayer gives us an opportunity to interrupt that
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  - thought instead of feeding it.
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  - We can stop and ask,
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  - is what I'm telling myself actually true according
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  - to God's word?
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  - Then scripture gives us something stronger to put
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  - in its place.
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  - Prayer isn't pretending the struggle doesn't exist.
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  - It's refusing to let the struggle
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  - determine what we believe.
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  - That being said, let's pray.
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  - Heavenly father, help me recognize the thoughts I've
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  - allowed to speak louder than your truth.
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  - One negative,
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  - thoughts begin shaping my perspective.
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  - Bring your word back to my mind.
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  - Teach me to reject thoughts that contradict what
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  - you've said and fill my mind with what
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  - is true, honorable, and pleasing to you.
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  - Let me think
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  - your thoughts and let them become increasingly shaped
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  - by your truth instead of my circumstances.
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  - And I will bless you in Jesus' name.
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  - Amen.
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  - Today,
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  - catch one negative thought and replace it with
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  - one biblical truth.
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  - And if you know someone whose thoughts have
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  - been weighing
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  - them down heavily,
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  - share this prayer with them. Sometimes
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  - one truth arrives at exactly the moment someone
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  - needs it. And until tomorrow, keep meeting God
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  - at the throne.