Changing Your Thinking by Changing Your Focus

CHANGING YOUR THINKING BY CHANGING YOUR FOCUS

3/30/2025-Sunday School

Lesson #8 in the series: The Bible You Can Trust

Text: Various

Theme: The ultimate goal for filling your mind with scripture is to change the way you think and what you are thinking about.

Victory at a high level, especially spiritual, is never by accident

1. We need to learn valuable lessons from passages on trials to help us to understand how we should view trials

2. Secondly, and with no less importance, we need to turn our attention to focus on the Lord and His promises

Your problem may be initially the trial, but your problem ultimately becomes your thinking

U How you view your problem will determine how you view your solution

Key passage: 2 Timothy 3:13-17

Doctrine – what is right (to teach/indoctrinate)

Reproof – what is wrong (to prove guilt)

Correction – how to get right (to stand upright… improvement of life and character)

Instruction – how to stay right (training, educating and cultivating of thinking and actions [mind & morals])

After you stabilize your heart with a biblical view of trials, we then need to turn and look at the God who should become our joy, our expectation, our light…