CELEBRATION NOTES

August 10, 2025

BALANCE

Part 3: Mental Balance

WHEN YOUR MIND WON’T STOP

Difficult time slowing your mind?

Day—Mind feels cluttered—Night—Bed—Mind races—

To do list.

OT book of Ecclesiastes—Solomon called it

“Anxious Striving.”

22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? 23 All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. Ecclesiastes 2:22-23

Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. 6 So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. Romans 8:5-6

A CHANGE OF THINKING

Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts. Proverbs 4:23

“No one is more influential in your life than you are, because no one talks to you more than you do.”

—Dr. Paul David Tripp

Your thoughts have incredible power.

You have incredible power over your thoughts.

• · Relational Cynicism …Negative Filtering
• · Absolute Thinking …Blaming

ENCOURAGE YOURSELF IN THE LORD

(act like a cow)                                  “Overthinking”

NEGATIVITY FAST