DaringDebs

Welcome back! I'm am excited that you are following this series of blogs on the book from Pastor Steven Furtick, "Crash the Chatterbox", hopefully this series blesses you and provides you with tools on crashing, smashing and taming the chatterbox. This chapter begins discussing that our greatest battles begin in our minds, " Because it's in the mind that the transmission of God's plans for our lives either succeeds or fails ", Pastor Furtick shares a statistic that says the average person has over sixty thousand thoughts a day, and over 80 percent of them are negative. Hmm... this is alarming. If my thoughts are working against me, then at this rate I want to have godly leadership and resources to help me attack my worse enemy (my own thoughts).  One of the things I learned as I've studied the word of God is to think about my thoughts. In past blogs I have mention how my thoughts have managed to send me on downward spirals that eventually throw me

Half way through this book I realized that I needed to share how the content of this book is adding to my spiritual walk in a positive way. In the introduction Pastor Furtick quickly entices with the explanation of what is the "Chatterbox". The Chatterbox is that voice in your head that with no shame begins drumming away the beat of your most negative and intimidating thoughts. The negative declarations of the Chatterbox have no mercy and it's ready to eat your confidence alive. Pastor Furtick explains how this can start at the crack of dawn. As soon as you begin the daily morning routine your mind starts to anxiously calculate everything you " need " to get done in order to feel like you don't suck as a person. The introduction gives a described scenario of how hectic mornings can bring us to a " mid-morning melt down ", and the melt downs (as we are trying to leave the house and make it to work on time) can make us feel as if the sky is fal