The New Bible Cure for Depression & Anxiety Read Online Free PDF

choices, and reactions, these will eventually lead to habits. Habits then form your character. Your character then determines your destiny. I like the way Dr. David Yonggi Cho explains the effects of our thoughts on our actions in his book Fourth Dimensional Living in a Three Dimensional World :
To the extent that we mentally map out our plans for success and carry out those plans accordingly, our assurance of success increases. However, if a person is more focused on failure than on success, the likelihood of his or her failure will increase. When our minds dwell upon success, our thinking will yield positive outcomes, and the fulfillment of our dreams will be expedited.… Once you start believing that something is possible, the likelihood of your taking the action to achieve that goal will greatly increase.… Thinking influences your feelings and behaviors, as well as your physical body.… That is why we must begin thinking in God’s ways, not our own. 1
    Your thoughts affect not only your physical life but your spiritual life as well. Dr. Cho says that your thinking is like “spiritual breathing.” 2 He means that your thinking is as vital to your spiritual life as breathing is to your physical life. Because it affects everything you do, your thinking is the way God carries out His plans in your life. I encourage you to read Dr. Cho’s book Fourth Dimensional Living in a Three Dimensional World for more information on the power our thoughts have in our lives.
    Both depression and anxiety are thought disorders. When you learn to tune in to your feelings and begin to capture anxiety-provoking thoughts and beliefs, you can then replace these automatic thoughts and beliefs with God’s Word, which will resolve both depression and anxiety. You can literally change your thinking and change your life.
    It is impossible to dissect every thought because you have literally tens of thousands of thoughts every day. However, you can tune in to your feelings. Feelings can then alert you to what you are thinking, which is usually at the root of your anxiety.
    In 2 Corinthians 10:4–5, Paul states, “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (KJV).
    Realize that these two verses in 2 Corinthians talk about thoughts, imaginations, and strongholds. An anxious thought will become an anxious imagination or belief, which, if dwelt upon, over time will become a stronghold or a mind-set.
    To help you understand this process, think of the preset radio stations on a radio dial. When you push one button, you’re listening to the talk radio station, and when you push another button, the Christian music station is tuned in.
    Your preset belief system, usually formed in childhood, eventually becomes a mind-set or what is called a stronghold in the passage from 2 Corinthians. When you operate from preset beliefs, you feel anxious without even knowing why. You then act on these beliefs so much that you bypass even thinking about them and simply feel anxious. In other words, you react before you think.
    You will learn, when anxious feelings occur, to track your anxiety triggers, thoughts, and beliefs. Then as you reprogram these thoughts and beliefs, anxiety will subside and eventually go.
    Romans 8:5–6 says, “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace” (NKJV).
    This verse shows us the importance of dwelling on spiritual thinking rather than worldly (“of the flesh”) thinking. The things we dwell on create mind-sets. Worldly mind-sets lead to depression and anxiety, but spiritual mind-sets lead to life and peace.