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Three big ideas are critical for taming our thoughts:

• Practice Picky Thinking (thought prevention). Just because you have a thought doesn’t mean you need to think it.


• Identify UFOs (thought progression). An untruth leads to a false narrative that creates an overreaction.


• Uproot and Replant (thought extraction). Rather than let the untruth grow, give the lie a tug and replace it with God’s truth.

These are the tools in your thought management toolbox. Until we put these ideas to work, they are simply that— ideas. I trace issues to one cause: stinking thinking. You will see that the tools in your toolbox will work on anything Satan throws at you.

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