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Chapter 6 Train Your Emotions
Your body will “believe” something is real when it experiences that thing—whether in reality or through imagination. To help yourself really believe truths you’re finding hard to believe, activate your emotional brain with biblical imagination. Imagine vivid scenes in which the truth you want to believe plays out dramatically.
Chapter 5 Brain Chemistry & the Human Soul: How to Rewire Your Brain
Ridding yourself of physical and mental symptoms while leaving spiritual causes untouched is like mopping up water without fixing the leaky pipe.
Chapter 4: The Fireproof Heart: Finding the Peace of God
Imagine how much better equipped you would be to face the day’s troubles if your first conscious thoughts were on God. Instead of groping your night stand for your phone first thing, let your heart grope heavenward to wake up to God’s presence. Let your first conscious thoughts be a personal exchange with the one who watched over you all night.
Anxiety & The Peace of God Pt.3 Bad Anxiety
We can conceive of what calmness feels like. We can imagine a relaxed vacation, job security, money in the bank, high self-confidence, the ability to sleep like a baby. This world offers countless remedies for anxiety, but what God promises here goes far beyond anything in this world. It exceeds anything we can even understand or imagine.
Anxiety Pt.2 How to Use Your Anxiety to Take Spiritual Action
I’ve taken mental and physical action, but have I taken spiritual action?
Anxiety & the Peace of God part 1 – Good Anxiety
“There should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal anxiety[6] for each other.” (1 Corinthians 12:25).
God calls us to have anxiety for our brothers and sisters in Christ like Timothy did for the Philippians. And when he expands on that a few verses later, he gives us the most famous chapter in the whole Bible on love—1 Corinthians 13. Paul wrote that chapter as an explanation of what he meant by having anxiety for one another. Anxiety is a byproduct of love.