Week 3
Defeat Your Negative Thoughts
Watch this week's teaching
You can't control what happens to you. But you can control how you frame it. This week is about training the mind to look for God in every situation — even the painful ones.
Talk it over
Getting started
- Do you use filters on your photos? Which one's your favorite — and if you refuse to, why?
Think it through
- Which part of this week's teaching landed hardest for you, and why?
- Would you say your default mindset runs more positive or more negative? How could you start training your mind to look for God in every situation?
- Read Philippians 1:12–14. Paul reframes prison itself. What circumstance of yours is waiting to be reframed?
Go deeper
- Tell about a time you saw Jesus bring meaning and purpose to pain.
- Everyone's carrying a struggle. What's yours right now — and how can you look for God in it?
This week
Pray over the struggles you named — yours and the ones others trusted you with. Ask God not only for comfort but for eyes to see His goodness in the middle of the pain.
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Video and discussion content from Craig Groeschel and Life.Church, used via the Open Network (open.life.church).