Self-Talk

I heard a podcast yesterday from Kris Vallotton, he said that "Psychologist say that we have 1,200 words a minute of self-talk, and about 1,100 of them are negative thoughts."

We are in spiritual warfare. Those negative thoughts are not our own. They are from the enemy. We are constantly influenced, and we need to fight back. God does not tear us down. He does not destroy our self-image. We are made in his image, and he is not going to talk bad about himself! We need to constantly be filling our minds with what God says about us, in doing so we can destroy self-doubt, depression, anxiety, or really any other limiting factor of that sort. If we believe it is our thought, then we can debate whether it is true or not. We need to recognize that those negative thoughts we have about ourselves are not the truth, but are actually put in our minds to destroy us. I don't know how many times I have not done something God wanted me to do, because I didn't think I could do it, because I wasn't good enough, or to scared to try. When we realize those thoughts are not our own, but instead they are a spiritual attack, we can overcome them through Christ.


1 John 5:4-6 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 6 This is the one who came by water and blood-- Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.