Your Thoughts Control Your Life - Daily Hope with Rick Warren - June 12, 2025
Your thoughts have the power to shape your life, and by renewing your mind, you can transform your circumstances. By learning to manage your mind, you can overcome mental fatigue, find peace and happiness, and experience a deeper connection with God.
“Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.”Proverbs 4:23 (GNT)
God is far more interested in changing your mind than changing your circumstances.
We want God to take away all our problems, pain, sorrow, suffering, sickness, and sadness. But God wants to work on you first, because transformation won’t happen in your life until you renew your mind—until your thoughts begin to change.
Why is it so important for you to learn to manage your mind? The Bible gives you three reasons.
Manage your mind because your thoughts control your life.
Proverbs 4:23 says, “Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts” (GNT). Your thoughts have tremendous ability to shape your life in positive or negative ways. For example, maybe you accepted a thought someone told you when you were growing up: “You’re worthless. You don’t matter.” If you believed that, even though it was wrong, it has shaped your life. You must choose which thoughts you allow to affect you.
Manage your mind because the mind is the battleground for sin.
All temptation happens in the mind. Paul says in Romans 7:22-23, “I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned; but there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind and wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. In my mind I want to be God’s willing servant, but instead I find myself still enslaved to sin” (TLB).
One reason you get mentally fatigued is because there’s a battle in your mind 24 hours a day. It’s debilitating because it’s intense, and it’s intense because your mind is your greatest asset. Satan wants your greatest asset!
Manage your mind because it’s the key to peace and happiness.
An unmanaged mind leads to tension; a managed mind leads to tranquility. An unmanaged mind leads to conflict; a managed mind leads to confidence. When you don’t try to control your mind and direct your thoughts, you will experience an enormous amount of stress in your life. But a managed mind leads to strength, security, and serenity.
“Letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace” (Romans 8:6 NLT).
When your circumstances are out of your control, take the time to manage your mind. Ask God for his help, and you’ll find that you can find peace and happiness despite tough times.
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