The Mind Connection: How the Thoughts You Choose Affect Your Mood, Behavior, and Decisions (23 page)
Authors: Joyce Meyer
Tags: #Religion / Christian Life / Personal Growth, #Religion / Christian Life / Inspirational, #RELIGION / Christian Life / Spiritual Growth
• Self-control is the key to a godly thought life.
• You live in this world, but you don’t have to live as this world lives. You can choose to live differently.
• Take an inventory of your thoughts and eliminate the ones that are stealing your peace.
• When you feel like you have lost control, there’s still time to get it back.
• Jesus has already provided His peace. All you have to do is receive it.
As usual, by the time we get to the end of any book, we have taken in a lot of information, and we probably don’t remember all of it. With that thought in mind, I would like to reiterate what I feel is the main theme of this book and what I hope it does for you.
Your thoughts affect every area of your life, so that makes them extremely important. They especially affect the words we speak, the attitudes and moods that we display, our relationships, including our personal relationship with God, and our success or failure in things that we do.
I encourage you to believe what God believes, learn to think as He would think, say what He says, and make the decisions that He leads you to make. God, through Jesus, has provided an amazing life for us, one in which we can bear much good fruit for God and mankind.
I recommend that you daily ask God to help you with your thoughts and words, because they are more important than any of us might imagine. Right ones are filled with life, and wrong ones are filled with death and misery of every kind. As I close, let us remember the words of God:
“… I have set before you life and death, the blessings and curses; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live.” (Deuteronomy 30:19)
J
OYCE
M
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is one of the world’s leading practical Bible teachers. Her TV and radio broadcast,
Enjoying Everyday Life
, airs on hundreds of television networks and radio stations worldwide.
Joyce has written more than one hundred inspirational books. Her best sellers include
Power Thoughts
;
The Confident Woman
;
Look Great, Feel Great
;
Starting Your Day Right
;
Ending Your Day Right
;
Approval Addiction
;
How to Hear from God
;
Beauty for Ashes
; and
Battlefield of the Mind
.
Joyce travels extensively, holding conferences throughout the year and speaking to thousands around the world.
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OYCE
M
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S
PANISH
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(
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)
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(
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)
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(
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)
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(
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)
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(
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)
Dios No Está Enojado Contigo
(
God Is Not Mad at You
)
La Dosis de Aprobación
(
The Approval Fix
)
Empezando Tu Día Bien
(
Starting Your Day Right
)
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(
Do Yourself a Favor… Forgive
)
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(
The Confident Mom
)
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(
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)
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(
Perfect Love
)
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(
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)
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(
You Can Begin Again
)
Viva Valientemente
(
Living Courageously
)
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Make the most of what you learn from
The Mind Connection
with this companion study guide. Its engaging lessons and stimulating exercises will help you think with purpose, maintain a positive attitude, and overcome every obstacle you face.
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Winning the Battle in Your Mind
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In her most popular book, Joyce Meyer explains how to transform negative thoughts that attack your mind so that you can enjoy a life of freedom, fruitfulness, and peace.
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El Campo de Batalla de la Mente
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and
12 Strategies to Win the Battle of the Mind
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Pensamientos de Poder
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