Stop the

Stinking Thinking

Psalms 139:23Psalms 139:23

• Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

• And see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Thought Patterns Thought Patterns

• Thoughts that continually run through your mind.

• Thought patterns are words, events, desires and feelings that you find yourself constantly meditating on.

• Thought patterns are dreams and visions that continually flood your mind.

• Everyone has an evil or ungodly thought. The danger is when that thought becomes a pattern of thinking.

• When a thought becomes a pattern of thinking it then becomes a state of being.

• Your worldview is determined by your thought pattern.

• The enemy does not want to just drop a thought in your mind, he wants control of your thinking.

Ephesians 2:2-3Ephesians 2:2-3n 2: In which at one time you walked

[habitually]. You were following the course and fashion of this world [were under the sway of the tendency of this present age], following the prince of the power of the air. [You were obedient to and under the control of] the [demon] spirit that still constantly works in the sons of disobedience [the careless, the rebellious, and the unbelieving, who go against the purposes of God].

n 3: Among these we as well as you once lived and conducted ourselves in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by our corrupt and sensual nature], obeying the impulses of the flesh and the thoughts of the mind [our cravings dictated by our senses and our dark imaginings]. We were then by nature children of [God's] wrath and heirs of [His] indignation, like the rest of mankind.

• Impulses are urges and desires that are produced by what’s called maladaptive thoughts.

• Maladaptive thought patterns

• When you focus on something that may in fact be true, but is nonetheless not helpful to focus on excessively -(healthpsychology.net)

• Thoughts that become excessive and irrational focusing on something that is not true.

• Maladaptive thoughts produce maladaptive behavior.

• Maladaptive behavior is behavior that is counter-productive or interferes with everyday living. (health.stateuniversity.com)

Cognitive Therapy Cognitive Therapy 1.Avoid focusing on what can’t be

changed.

2.Be intentional about what you’re hearing.

3.Interrupt old thought patterns with new confessions.

4.Set goals and create a new focus for your life.

5.Learn to meditate on productive activities and behaviors.

Philippians 4:8Philippians 4:8• Finally, brethren, whatsoever

things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.