{"id":2289,"date":"2018-07-16T01:15:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T01:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freshhope.us\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2025-07-08T19:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T00:36:39","slug":"changing-our-self-talk-to-faith-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshhope.us\/es\/changing-our-self-talk-to-faith-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Our Self-Talk to Faith-Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The other day I was pitching a baseball to grandsons. If you know me, you realize I am balding\u2026all except for a little patch right in the front. The wind was blowing and this little bit of hair was standing up in the wind and \u2014lets just say it looked a little unusual. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Suddenly grandson said with admiration, \u201cPop you have a Mohawk!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A Mohawk? Now I am cool but not that cool. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You never know what people are thinking especially kiddos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But I have noticed that negativity occupies a lot of self-talk when we are depressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Negativity is a contagion that lodges easily in our mind. Like a virus it infects those around us. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thoughts like: \u201cI know I will do a lousy job.\u201d \u201cI should never make a mistake.\u201d \u201cI should have known better.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cIf I am not best I am a failure.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cWhy me? Bad things always happen to me.\u201d \u201cIt is not fair.\u201d \u201cI should have known better.\u201d \u201cI always ruin every thing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">These thoughts become automatic. The more we talk of them the more embedded they become in the brain. It is possible to change these thoughts, but it requires self examination. A counselor can hep us identify cognitive distortions and replace these thoughts with truth. In time the truth can become our new automatic thoughts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We can turn to promises God gives us in the Bible as substitutes for negative thoughts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But God loves us and has given us promises of hope. We don\u2019t have to carry negative rumination as we move into an our future. Circumstances may not be easy or comfortable. But we have hope for today and tomorrow. Our hope in Him is not a \u201cmaybe\u201d, \u201cmight-be\u201d, or \u201ccould be\u201d, it is certain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As we travel into the uncertainty of life, here are some promises that can give us a new way of thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Isaiah 41:10 ESV <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Philippians 4:6-7 ESV<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cDo not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Romans 8:31-39<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIf God is for us, who can be against us? \u2026Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reprograming our self-talk combats the thoughts of negativity. It takes time to change our negative-talk to faith-talk. But living by the truth of hope in God is worth it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And it can protect us from scary looking things like this old grandpa with a Mohawk. <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was pitching a baseball to grandsons. 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