Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life

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The Way We Think Directly Impacts Our Joy and Peace

When was the last time you awakened to a swirl of out-of-control thoughts? Perhaps you were overwhelmed with anxiety, the fear of rejection, or the grip of guilt. In Tame Your Thoughts, Max Lucado provides three biblical and practical tools to renew your mind and transform your life.

Our thoughts have consequences. Most people would agree that positive thoughts generate positive actions. Negative thoughts activate negative behavior. But do we understand that we can manage our lives by managing our thoughts? Not only does neuroscience back this concept, but the idea is also embedded throughout Scripture. "Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind" (Rom.12:2 esv). Tame your thoughts and transform your life!

In Tame Your Thoughts, bestselling author and pastor Max Lucado explores three key thought management tools and then applies them to the most common thought problems: anxiety, guilt, rejection, and others. God loves us too much to let us lead a life marked by poor thinking. He made our brains; he can retrain our brains. God has not left us alone in this battle of the mind.

Stuck in your head? Ticked off at the world? Weighed down by worry? There is hope. Change is possible! The thoughts that have characterized your past need not characterize the rest of your life. Max shares how to use three thought management tools to

• take thoughts captive,
• test each message against the truth of Scripture,
• interrupt poisonous thought threads, and
• think and act like Jesus.

If God can resurrect the dead, can he not resurrect hope? Defy depression? Clarify confusion? Silence shame? Destroy doubt? Banish bitterness?

Take God at his word. "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind" (2 Tim. 1:7 nkjv, emphasis added). With God as your helper, you will discover a new way of thinking and a better way of living.

We can tame each thought, friends.

Figures, reflection questions, and a scripture database can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.