Thought Conditioners

Weekly Thought Conditioner

38 I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. -Psalm 34:4 A cure for fear that will absolutely work is to get close to God in your thoughts. He is the only certain unchanging factor in the world. He will never let you down nor forget you. If plagued by fear, do what this text says: Seek the Lord. That may be done by spending 15 minutes every day just thinking about God. You can split this up into five-minute periods, but never let a day pass without spending 15 minutes thinking about God. Each day, make the following statement, "I surrender myself and all my problems, my loved ones, my future into the hands of God, and I trust Him." Three times every day, thank God for all His goodness. Soon your life will be filled with God, and emptied of apprehensions.

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I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. -Psalm 34:4

A cure for fear that will absolutely work is to get close to God in your thoughts. He is the only certain unchanging factor in the world. He will never let you down nor forget you. If plagued by fear, do what this text says: Seek the Lord. That may be done by spending 15 minutes every day just thinking about God. You can split this up into five-minute periods, but never let a day pass without spending 15 minutes thinking about God.

Each day, make the following statement, "I surrender myself and all my problems, my loved ones, my future into the hands of God, and I trust Him."

Three times every day, thank God for all His goodness. Soon your life will be filled with God, and emptied of apprehensions.

How to Use Weekly Thought Conditioners

By Norman Vincent Peale

Think Happy Thoughts
Since happiness and effectiveness depend upon the kinds of thoughts we think, it is absolutely impossible to be happy if we think unhappy thoughts.

If you put into your mind thoughts of fear, you will get thoughts of fear. Fill your mind with resentment thoughts, and resentment attitudes will emerge. In neither case, can you find happiness-inducing thoughts. Whatever the condition of your mind, the Thought Conditioners I suggest are so powerful that they will displace unhealthy thoughts.

Spiritual Power
In my experience through many years in working with people, I have discovered that the most vital, creative and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive — they are capable of revolutionizing the entire personality.

This means, simply, that if you fill your mind with spiritual words so that they sink from your conscious to your subconscious through spiritual osmosis, you will condition your personality with spiritual power of sensitivity that God's will can operate in you. Every great value of this life, the ones that really matter, shall then be yours.

Life-Creating Words
Over the years, I had noticed that certain passages from the Scriptures had a particular, potent effect on human beings. I began, therefore, to list the life-creating words from the Scriptures that had done the most good — where there had occurred the most astonishing demonstration of new life and joy.

Memorize and Apply
The process I have used both personally and in counseling is simply that of committing these great passages to memory. One puts them in the mind as in a sort of spiritual medicine cabinet, each to be drawn out as needed for specific ills or maladies of the personality, or to meet life's situations as they develop. The method is also to conceive of these thoughts as having displacement value, crowding out injurious thought patterns.

Positive Thought Patterns
The best results are gained by utilizing spare minutes to say these Scripture passages, or Thought Conditioners, over and over. As you are riding on a bus or train, or washing the dishes, or waiting for an appointment, utilize fractional moments to dwell and meditate upon the meaning of these texts. As you do so, there will flash out from them new insights, new perceptions of truth. Gradually, by a deep therapy, they will drive into the mind until presently your life will become a living demonstration of God's power.

I give these 40 Thought Conditioners to you with the prayer that they may add to the happiness and usefulness of your life.