You cannot change what you do not confront is a part of a quote I read in Craig Groeschel’s book Winning the War in Your Mind, and I’m pondering it with you today.
For Lent 2025, I’ll be writing new blog posts every day. I’m writing for just five unedited minutes on a quote of the day to deepen our faith in this Lenten season.
Day 30 of Lent 2025 – April 3
Winning the War in Your Mind is a powerful book to help you change your thoughts, which shape your life. I like Craig Groeschel’s writing because it is clear, concise, and ringing with truth. It’s also filled with humor and humility, which make the lessons even more meaningful. You can see my Lenten post about another one of his books HERE.
In the past three years, I have battled depression, which is a battle in the mind. I know that’s where all our battles begin, and it’s where Satan can whisper lies to us. Though I’ve written two books on transforming your thought life, I needed to confront lies I believed that the enemy planted. Lies like “things are never going to get better for me,” or “the shoe is always going to fall,” which are rooted in a lifetime of abuse. I had to confront the underlying traumas to change my thought life, as recommended in THIS BOOK.
You Cannot Change What You Do Not Confront
This journey of greater self-awareness in my thought life is an important part of my healing process. In a support group I joined through my church, we learned to name our emotions out loud. This practice of naming my emotions is helping me gain self-awareness. Now when a thought life problem develops, I name the emotion I’m feeling before God. It helps to say, “God, the reason I’m thinking this is because I’m lonely right now.” The feeling can be changed based on the moment. Just acknowledging it before God out loud helps decrease the negative feeling’s power. After I confess my feeling, I renew my trust in God with an audible statement. In this way, I’m winning the war because I’m not ignoring the battle going on in my mind.
Craig’s book is a powerful tool for gaining self-awareness of your thought life problems. I think it’s a good read along with my book, which is a tool to point you toward specific scriptures to help you fight back in specific areas of struggle. In fact, I know my publisher gave me a contract for my book the same year Craig’s book was published, because the topic of “thought life” was what the Holy Spirit wanted readers to focus on that year, along with this popular book too.
More quotes from Winning the War in Your Mind:
- A lie believed as truth will affect your life as if it were true.
- Who you are today is a result of your thoughts in the past. Who you become in the future will reflect what you think about today.
- The battle for your life is won or lost in your mind. Your thoughts will control you, so you have to control your thoughts.
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