Monitor your default thoughts. Most of us are unaware of the inner dialogue we carry on with ourselves each day. Appraisals. Criticisms. Assumptions. They are knee-jerk reactions. “I’m so stupid.” “I’ll never get this under control.”

When self-criticism or worry plays like a tape in your head, there is always a reason.  Someone trained you to think this way. They are the result of injury after injury, influence after influence, regret after regret—days, years, decades of immobilizing notions until a person cannot escape.

Does the voice in your head speak with proper authority?  Odds are good that many of your thoughts emerge from an unqualified origin. I hope you come to view each thought through the lens of God’s Word. He, and he alone, has the authority to tell you how to think.