Rock of Recovery

Today, we will learn how to turn our fears into trusting prayers and how to pray Scriptures. 

Choose to trust by exercising your trust muscle. We must accept the unchangeable. It's important to not fight or manipulate circumstances. There is a need to develop a realistic view of God and to develop the faith of Job: "Though He slay me, yet I will trust in Him."

Today, we will identify the source of our fears. Are they rational, irrational, exaggerated, induced by others, or paranoia. Also, we relate the need to forgiving others and myself to overcoming fear. 

Identify your fears and explore the lies. Name them.

Mature thinking skills need solid ground based upon foundational principles, not on emotions or manipulation from others. 

1) Today we will learn to think and speak in terms of recovery.

2) Regeneration and renewal leads to restoration.

3) Honorable living produces teachability.

4) Discipline your thinking to stop dwelling on things that are not happening.

5) Press into God's Word until it comes alive and active in your Spirit. 

6) Our responsibility is to renew our minds, not to let emotions make us unstable and driven by the wind.

Let your maturity go above your emotions. There will be a Higher Ground Emotional Training at the end to give practical application to your life. 

Developing decision-making skills empowers us to escape the mind control trap. Impulsive decisions rarely turn out well. Develop skills to make decisions, set decision-making priorities in relationships, make your own decisions, discuss more difficult decisions and how not to give your decision making power away. 

Mind control is defined as causing changes to the mind or behavior of another through persuasion and influence. There are ethical and respectful influences that respect the individual's personality and rights. Then there are negative influences that strip the person of their right to independent thinking. Selfishness is one of the key components of a person exercising mind control over another. Whoever or whatever controls your thinking controls you. 

Emotions are fickle and cannot be trusted. If my peace is gone, slow down and process what robbed your peace. Otherwise, you are on the way to an emotional thinking pattern and a mental prison. Spiritual growth and maturity is intentional. Learn to protect the gateways to your soul: eyes, ears, heart and mind. 

Overthinking about a negative event or circumstance will be a trap for a mental prison. Today we will examine the negative thinking patterns and identify our carnal thinking. 

Today, we will recognize our own Mental Prisons along with the games other people play to control and manipulate. We will identify our own self-inflicted prisons.