Controlling your thoughts can be difficult to do. Mainly because this world is full of messages being directed at you. Finding peace can be challenging in this bombardment of ideas and advertisements. Most advice I’ve read concerning finding peace revolves around finding time to spend isolation away from others and focus on controlling your thoughts. While I agree that this is good practice, this is only half of what the Apostle Paul recommends in Philippians 4. Let’s look at it;

When does a person know that they are healed enough to begin providing care for others? From a biblical perspective, I want to answer the question of when the transition from healed to helping should happen, and when a person with areas of struggle, weaknesses, and personal trauma can know that they are well enough to counsel others.

God’s Word encourages us to take every thought captive to obedience to Christ and invites us to experience transformation by renewing our minds (Romans 12:2). The purpose of this tool is to aid in processing challenging circumstances by identifying the thoughts that need to be taken captive and replacing those unbiblical thoughts with biblical, healthy thought patterns drawn from Scripture.

Satan, in his cunning, does not always resort to lies; he often employs the subtler tactic of redirecting your attention. The great aim of a lifestyle of worship and obedience to God is not a positive attitude or even an encouraged or peppy disposition. Worship is to focus on God.

As God calls us to address issues of the heart, he isn’t just wanting us to ensure that our emotions are in check, so to speak. He desires for our entire inner man to be brought into submission to his will for his glory and our greater good.

The state of your heart holds profound significance in the eyes of God. He is deeply cares for the condition of your inner being, seeking not just outward conformity but a genuine transformation from within. Here are three Bible verses that illustrate God's concern for your heart

Should the Christian trust his heart? The answer to this question is often an emphatic "no!" Frequently, counsel is given that we ignore our hearts and emotions or, at the very least, do not trust their leading as we aim to live a life pleasing to the Lord.