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    How to Capture Your Thought Life
    How to Capture Your Thought Life
    How to Capture Your Thought Life
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    How to Capture Your Thought Life

    By Stan Toler

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    This study will help you capture your thoughts and surrender them to the lordship of Christ.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDust Jacket Press
    Release dateJul 6, 2015
    ISBN9781943140619
    How to Capture Your Thought Life
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    Stan Toler

    Stan Toler has spoken in over 90 countries and written over 100 books with sales of more than 3 million copies. Toler for many years served as vice president and instructor for INJOY, John C. Maxwell’s institute for training leaders to make a difference in the world.

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      How to Capture Your Thought Life - Stan Toler

      Copyright © (2011) 2015 by Stan Toler

      Published by Dust Jacket Press

      Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73172

      ISBN: 9781943140619

      All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION ®. NIV ®. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      Writer: Stan Toler with Kevin Riggs

      This Bible study is a companion book to Stan Toler’s Total Quality Life: Strategies for Purposeful Living, expanded ed.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Electronically Published by DustJacket Press at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      CONTENTS

      Cover

      Title

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      Week 1. Surrender

      Week 2. Detoxify

      Week 3. Realign

      Week 4. Reinforce

      Week 5. Pray

      Week 6. Persevere

      WEEK 1

      SURRENDER

      RECOMMENDED READING

      Total Quality Life, chapter 1, pages 9-17

      Have you ever wondered why the international symbol for surrender is a body holding both arms high in the air? It is because doing so opens up the part of your body that protects all vital organs, including the heart. Holding arms high makes a person completely vulnerable and dependent on the other person. By holding your arms up high, you are placing your life (or death) in the hands of someone else. There is no such thing as being partly surrendered.

      Today, we begin a six-week study on total quality thought. This study is based on one of the major themes in Total Quality Life. The Bible teaches that the key to enjoying a quality life is to take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ (2 Cor. 10:5). In other words, in order to experience total quality life, we must first learn to capture our thoughts; and the first step to learning how to capture our thoughts is completely surrendering our lives and thoughts to the lordship of Jesus Christ.

      DAY 1

      ROMANS 12:1-2

      Paul wrote today’s verses to believers, referring to them as brothers (v. 1). He was pleading with people who already claimed to be followers of Jesus to completely surrender their lives as living sacrifices (v. 1). In the days of sacrifices, animals did not give their lives halfway; they gave their lives completely, and that is the challenge here.

      How can you become a living sacrifice? How can you become transformed into the image of Christ instead of being conformed to this world? Paul said it starts by renewing your mind. Another word for renewing is renovation. If you have ever remodeled a home, you know there are two parts to renovating. First is the destruction, a tearing down of the old, and second is the construction, a building up of the new.

      How can you renew, remodel, or renovate your thought life? First, you have to tear out the old stuff and throw it away. This could include changing what books you read, magazines you receive in the mail, or websites you visit. Or, it could mean changing your TV and movie watching habits. The remodeling may involve listening to different music and guarding how much time you spend watching or listening to the news. Once you get rid of the old, you can begin the building process by making sure positive and godly things enter your mind and thoughts. Many negative thoughts enter our minds through the portals of our eyes and ears. Guarding what we allow to enter through those portals will significantly help the renewing process.

      It’s not easy to change your thought life. It’s not easy to surrender. But the promise associated with complete surrender is well worth the effort. The promise is that we will know what God’s will is for our lives. The promise is that we will discover meaning and purpose.

      QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION

      1. What are some things entering your mind through books and media that have had a negative impact on your thought life? What can you do in the next few days as an act of worship in surrendering those things to Jesus Christ?

      2. What are some steps you can take this week to allow more positive and godly things to enter your mind and thoughts?

      PRAYER FOR TODAY

      Father, today I want to surrender my life, especially my thought life, to you as a living sacrifice. Lord, forgive me for allowing all the junk of this world to enter my mind. With your help right now, I want to demolish my old ways of thinking and rebuild with your ways of thinking. I want to be transformed into your image, not conformed to the world’s image. At this moment, with my arms held

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