When you are praying or “treating” about a particular thing, you should handle it, mentally, very carefully indeed. The ideal way is not to think about it at all except when you are actually praying about it. Moreover, to talk to other people about it is exceedingly likely to invite failure.
When a new problem presents itself to you, decline to consider it except in the light of Truth. I call this “putting a subject in quarantine.” Even an old long-standing problem can be “put in quarantine” today, if you mean business and will resolutely break the habit of constantly thinking over that problem.
Whenever you think about any subject, you are treating it with your thought – either for good or evil.
The lip of truth shall be established forever… (Proverbs 12:19)
Paul’s letter to the Phillipians says it well. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
We are what we think. If we limit our thinking about negative things to prayer about them; we will not only rise above them, we will resolve them with God’s help.
Thinking truthfully,
Z gardener
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