Solutions August 2018 | Page 24

or strangling someone, smothering an
elderly parent, or driving your car off a
bridge.
That amounts to 116 minutes a day of
some sort of unwanted, unwelcome,
unhelpful thoughts stealing our joy
and neutralizing our effectiveness.
To be clear, the problem isn’t that these
thoughts show up. The problem is that
we let them pull out the sofa bed and
spend the night. An old saying warns
us that you can’t stop birds from flying
around your head, but you don’t have
to let them build a nest in your hair.
fear, shame, jealousy, guilt, and doubt.
You’ll find that being so alert to what
you’re thinking will have a huge impact
on your emotions. Remember, you can
change the way you feel by changing
the way you think. Where the head
goes the body must follow.
Written by Levi Lusko author of I Declare War ©
2018. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson.
This is why it is so essential to install a
checkpoint in your mind. Without such
a filter, you risk two hours of thoughts
sneaking through and causing untold
amounts of terror and damage to your
peace and your God-given power. When
you force each thought to go through
this screening before you allow it to
remain, you can take back control from
Levi Lusko
Levi Lusko is a bestselling author, pastor of Fresh Life
(a multisite church in Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and
Oregon), and the founder of Skull Church and the O2
Experience. Levi travels around the world speaking
about Jesus. He takes pleasure in small things, such
as black coffee, new shoes, fast Internet, and falling
asleep in the sun. He and his wife, Jennie, have four
daughters, Alivia, Daisy, Clover, and Lenya, who is in
heaven; and a son named Lennox. His new book I
Declare War will be released October 30, 2018.
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