Mind Over This Matter: Taking Your Thoughts Captive Before Your Thoughts Take You Captive

What happens when the situation is real, the feelings are valid, but your thoughts begin making the matter bigger than the God who is carrying you through it?

Mind Over This Matter is a Scripture-centered journey through fear, imagination, comparison, residual pain, wilderness seasons, changing territory, and the daily work of bringing our thoughts back under the authority of God.

Through biblical teaching, personal experiences, and practical reflection, Elder Leigh M Johnson challenges readers to examine not only what is happening around them, but what is happening within their minds because of it.

What are you agreeing with? Are you responding to what is happening today—or what you fear may happen tomorrow? Are you carrying yesterday's survival thinking into today's new territory? Have you mistaken provision for the promise, preparation for punishment, or residual pain for present pain?

This book will encourage you to:

• Take thoughts captive before they take you captive
• Recognize when imagination has begun writing a story God never wrote
• Face reality without allowing it to dominate your thinking
• Stop rehearsing what has already hurt you
• Identify fear when it tries to prophesy your future
• Enlarge your thinking as God enlarges your territory
• Guard the gate of your mind and choose what you agree with
• Keep your mind stayed on God—even while the matter is still present

Renewing is not masking. The goal isn't to pretend the matter doesn't exist. The goal is to keep the matter from becoming greater in your thinking than the One who holds you through it.

The matter is real. But the matter does not get the final word.