Daily writing prompt

What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?

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You can’t stop a thought from flying through your mind, but you can prevent it from roosting, cawing, and squawking in your head. A key to mental health is to quickly shoo away negative, painful, tormenting, and destructive thoughts. If you want to be happy conquer your mind and force it to think healthy, uplifting, peaceful, pure, and joyous thoughts.

An uncontrolled mind is a nest for deception. It freely welcomes and embraces distorted thoughts without intently examining them to see if they are true. (1 John 1:4)

Fear thoughts will make you scared. They will also make you self-focused, irrational, and unkind. Refuse to give fear thoughts any room in your mind. (1 John 4:18) Replace them with love thoughts. (Matthew 5:44)

Angry thoughts will keep you angry. They will keep you far away from inner peace. However, if you will begin to regularly and consistently pray God’s blessing on everybody you are angry at, your anger thoughts will gradually be replaced by compassionate thoughts. (Luke 6:28) That is called forgiveness. (Matthew 6:14)

Guilty thoughts are warnings from your conscience that you are in the wrong. To get rid of guilty thoughts turn away from whatever is causing them (Matthew 4:17) and ask God to forgive you. (Psalm 51:1)

You can’t control your circumstances, but you can control your thoughts. Will you? (2 Corinthians 10:5) Self-control begins when you take control of your thoughts. (Philippians 4:8)

Unhealthy thinking prevents people from experiencing thriving mental health and ongoing inner peace. (Romans 12:2) You are responsible for the thoughts that you allow to linger and lodge in your mind. You are the only person, place, or thing that can fill your mind with healthy thoughts.

Instead of allowing your thoughts to be random and uncontrolled ask God the Holy Spirit to help you take control of them and align them to God the Father’s will. (Galatians 5:22-23) Let the risen Jesus Christ, who is God the Son, work deep inside of you (Colossians 1:27) to train and empower you to have and maintain true mental health. (2 Timothy 1:7)