ReThink Your Life Inspirational Journal
By Stan Toler
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Everyday we are bombarded by disturbing, negative messages that plant themselves in our mind and influence our thinking. Often these thoughts become ac-tions and actions become habits, so gaining control of our thoughts is the critical first step in making positive life change.
In his best-selling book, ReThink Your Life, Stan Toler offers practical steps and an overall plan for ridding your mind of destructive thinking and replacing it with positive purpose, clear focus, and effective decision making that will improve the total quality of your life.
Now, in ReThink Your Life Inspirational Journal, he offers added inspiration, encouragement, and support in pursuit of a renewed, transformed mind. Forty-two daily entries provide inspirational stories, Bible verses and prayers to engage the reader.
Stan Toler
Stan Toler has spoken in over 90 countries and written over 100 books with sales of more than 3 million copies. Toler for many years served as vice president and instructor for INJOY, John C. Maxwell’s institute for training leaders to make a difference in the world.
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ReThink Your Life Inspirational Journal - Stan Toler
Copyright © (2010) 2015 by Stan Toler
Published by Dust Jacket Press
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73172
ISBN: 978-1-943140-65-7
Writer: Stan Toler with Jim Dyet
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Contents
Cover
Title
Copyrights
Introduction
Phase 1: Detoxification
Phase 2: Realignment
Phase 3: Reinforcement
Phase 4: Perseverance
Journal!
Introduction
No one disputes the importance of eating the right way and getting plenty of exercise. The more healthy your lifestyle the better you will feel on a daily basis and the longer you will live. In other words, healthy eating leads to a higher quality of life. However, we know that if we choose to live a sedentary lifestyle and feed our body all kinds of junk, we will pay the price for that way of life. We know this to be true even if we fail to live out the truth in our own lives.
In comparison, few people today seem to understand the importance of having a healthy diet for your mind. Our minds are bombarded with all kinds of unhealthy messages and images on a daily basis. We must be proactive about avoiding destructive thoughts and feeding our minds a healthy diet of truth or we will pay the price of an unhealthy, unfit thought life. If we are to live and grow as Jesus’ disciples, we must avoid the deception and lies of the Enemy and allow our minds and hearts to be shaped by the truth of the gospel.
The introduction to ReThink Your Life: A Unique Diet to Renew Your Mind* makes the statement that, The key to controlling your life is to control your mind,
and that we need to care for our minds in order to lead happy, healthy, productive lives.
The Bible certainly addresses the importance of right thinking as it relates to quality of life, and especially the quality of our spiritual life. In the days before the flood, God looked upon the despicable deeds human beings were committing, and he traced those deeds to their wicked thoughts. Genesis 6:5 says, The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
Many Bible teachers compare the immorality, irreverence, and injustices of modern times with pre-flood times. It is easy to understand their reasoning. Daily, the media reports a long list of crimes and scandals that reach all the way from our communities to our government. Several prominent religious leaders have fallen into scandalous sin. Clearly, believers must guard their minds against the harmful influences of a corrupt culture; fill their minds with godly thoughts; and put what they learn into wholesome, productive practices.
In his letter to the Philippians, Paul warned his readers about the ungodly lifestyle of enemies of the cross (Phil. 3:18–19). He also urged his readers to think about whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable . . . excellent or praiseworthy
(4:8). Further, he told them to put into practice what he had taught them by precept and example (4:9). Right thinking and right living are inseparable companions.
But Paul wasn’t the only apostle to stress the importance of the mind. After mentioning the benefits of the prophets’ and apostles’ words, the apostle Peter wrote, Therefore, prepare your minds for action
(1 Pet. 1:13).
This journal will help you to rethink your way to a productive, joyful life. Along the way, you will encounter daily entries. Each entry is designed with a theme, a key Bible verse, an inspirational story, a few statements or questions to help you record your thoughts, a recommended action you can take, and a prayer to echo.
I hope you enjoy every step of the journey!
NOTE
*Stan Toler, ReThink Your Life: A Unique Diet to Renew Your Mind (Indianapolis, Ind.: Wesleyan Publishing House, 2008), 12. This inspirational journal is a companion