Thought Control Your Life - Dr. Mike

What if the biggest battle you’re facing… isn’t around you—but inside your mind?

In this powerful teaching, Dr. Mike breaks down the biblical truth about the power of your thoughts—and how they are shaping your life more than you realize.

📖 The Bible says to be “transformed by the renewing of your mind”…
But what does that actually mean?

In this eye-opening message, you’ll discover:

How your thoughts are directly connected to your emotions, actions, and outcomes
Why negative thinking can keep you stuck in anxiety, fear, and defeat
The spiritual battle happening in your mind (and how to win it)
How to align your thoughts with God’s truth and step into freedom
Practical, biblical strategies to renew your mind and transform your life

⚡ This isn’t just teaching… this is a wake-up call.

If you’ve been struggling with anxiety, doubt, negative thinking, or feeling stuck—this message will challenge and equip you to break free.

👉 When you change your thinking, you change your life.

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Transcript

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Welcome to the Roar of Judah. Our mission is to hear God's voice above the noise of this world. And now here's your host, Dr. Mike. Hello everyone. Welcome to another episode of The Roar of Judah. I'm your host, Dr. Mike. And uh today we're going to be talking about our thoughts and how important they are to our mental health and overall well-being, physically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, socially. And um, so it's an important topic today. Uh the Bible really confirms how important our thoughts are. Um, you know, it tells us that we're to take every thought captive, tells us whatever's pure, mobile, true, and right that we're to think about such things, we're to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. And uh so over a hundred times in scripture, uh that you know, the Bible tells us something about our thoughts, our minds. And so when God created us, when God designed us, he knew how big of a topic and how important this topic would be that we're going to be talking about today. Um, so, you know, as a licensed professional counselor, like you, you know, that's probably 85% of the work that I do is helping people work on their thoughts, change their thoughts, see things from different perspectives. And uh so 30 years ago, in the world of psychology and counseling, everything was all about positive thinking. And just, you know, look at the bright side of everything, see as everything as a glass half full rather than half empty. And uh, you know, in the 1950s, there was a book uh written called The Power of Positive Thoughts. And, you know, it still jumps up on the best time seller list even today. And uh, you know, and there's a lot of value in that book that you know it's definitely better to look at the bright side, and it's definitely better, you know, instead of thinking, you know, my life is over, it's not worth living, and focusing on the positive things that you do have, you know, it's definitely better. But what they found in through research is that if the thoughts that you're telling yourself and giving yourself, if they're not believable to you, they don't have a whole lot of psychological value. Um, so what I've worked on and what I've like spent my career and life on is something instead of positive thinking, I call it better but believable thoughts. So they're more positive thoughts, but equally important, they also have to be believable to the person to have that psychological value. So let me give you a scenario. So so let's say you decide you would like to get a new job. And so you uh put in your resume and some applications at some places that you would like to work, and you get a phone call from your number one choice that if you could work anywhere in the world, this is a place you'd want to work at. And so at first you're really excited. Wow, they you know, they call me, I get an interview, what an opportunity. And then you start to get the negative thoughts. Well, you know, what what if like uh I don't not sure I have like the right education for this, I'm not sure I have enough experience for this, and you start to fill your mind with all these negative thoughts, and pretty soon you get to the point where you say, you know what, I'm probably just gonna go and embarrass myself. So maybe I should cancel this interview. So 30 years ago, if you would have called a counselor and given them that situation and scenario, you know, it would have been all about positive thinking. Like, you know, just have confidence in yourself. They loved you, they looked at your resume, they want you to have this job, it's there on the table for you. Go to that interview, the job's there, go get it. And uh now again, that's better than sitting there thinking, what a waste of time. I think I'm just gonna cancel this. But you might have some really valid reasons why you might not get this job. So maybe you don't have the right education, maybe you know, you don't have enough experience or the right kind of experience. Maybe you know, they're interviewing the boss's son for the exact same position. So you could have some really valid reasons why it's unlikely for you to get this job. Um, so again, what I work on and what I want to share with you today, and you know, how we renew our minds is through this better but believable thinking. So, as a counselor today, if somebody called me and I went through that whole story, put out some resumes, I got a call, I was excited, but now like I'm doubting myself. Um, you know, a better but believable thought might be something along the lines of um, you know, they did like your resume enough to give you a call. Worst thing that could happen is you go interview and you don't get the job, but you're gonna gain more experience and you'll be more prepared for the next opportunity that comes. And hopefully, as you listen to that statement, you can see it's better than the what I was thinking prior to that, that it's a waste of time. I'm gonna cancel it. And hopefully you can see it's also believable. Like, like there's nothing in that statement that you could look at and say, yeah, you know, I don't think that's believable. All right. So let me give you two real life examples. So I used to do something called mobile therapy. And in mobile therapy, I could, you know, if a child was having difficulty at school, I could go to school. If they're having difficulty at home, I could go to their homes. You know, if they were afraid of the dentist, I could go to the dentist with them. Um, so there was a little boy named Matthew, and he had to get a vaccine. And he was scared to death to go to the doctor and get this shot. So we go to the doctor and we're in the waiting room, and you know, the nurse comes in, kind of, you know, checks, checks his eyes and ears. You know, doctor comes in and is, you know, just doing some basic physical type stuff, and he's fine with that. In the meantime, we're just playing little games, um, you know, staying distracted. And then the nurse comes in and she starts to get this vaccine or this shot ready. And so she's over there, she's got a needle inside the medicine, and she's drawing the medicine out. And Matthew looks over at the nurse, sees a needle, and he starts to cry. And uh the nurse looks and she sees Matthew in tears and getting upset. And this is what the nurse said. She looked over and she said, Matthew, this is only gonna tickle. And you know, I don't know what goes through the mind of a five-year-old, but if I had to guess, as Matthew saw this needle, as he saw the medicine going in, Matthew's probably thinking to himself, this thing's probably gonna make my arm fall off. And if my arm doesn't fall off, it's gonna hurt the rest of my life. So when the nurse kind of gave that suggestion that it's only gonna tickle, in no way, shape, or form did Matthew believe that what's about to happen to him is only gonna tickle. So it only made him more upset. So I had to help Matthew create and form this better but believable thought. So this is what I did. I got Matthew's attention, and you know, I got him to look me in the eye. I said, okay, Matthew, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna hold hands, we're gonna close our eyes, and we're gonna count out loud to 10. And I promise you, by the time we get to the number seven, or but I'm sorry, but by the time we get to the number 10, it's no longer gonna hurt. And uh so Matthew kind of looked at me, and he, you know, he didn't stop crying, but it it kind of gave me the look like, okay, if my arm's not gonna fall off and it's not gonna hurt the rest of my life, maybe I could do this. You know, I might be able to survive 10 seconds. So Matthew and I, we hold hands, we start counting out loud, and then we get to the numbers, I think number three. And at number three, the nurse takes a shot, puts it in his arm. Matthew had just a little bit of a reaction, and we keep counting four, five, six, and I think we got to the number seven. And after we said the number seven, Matthew opened his eyes, looked at me, quit counting, and said, You're right, Mike. It doesn't hurt anymore. Let's go home. And it was just that better but believable thought where it was more positive than what he was thinking, but it was also believable because I, you know, I'd been working with him for a few months and he trusted me and knew like I wasn't gonna lie to him. All right, so one more in my psychology classes that I teach at the college level, you know, as future counselors, you know, I'm helping them learn this concept and how to help others. So I have them write their own negative thoughts down. And so in one of my psychology classes, uh, you know, everybody sent their negative thoughts to the front of the room. They don't have their names on them, so I don't know which belongs to who. And uh one of them said, Every morning I wake up, I look at myself in the mirror, and I tell myself that I'm ugly. And when I read that one, there was a girl in the class that kind of sat up, spoke up, and said, You know, I want to admit that one is mine. I wrote that and I want to admit it because I know this has a huge impact on my life, and I want to get this under control. All right, so my first question was, what would be a better but believable thought? And she said, I should look at myself in the mirror every morning and tell myself that I'm beautiful. I said, That's a wonderful thought. If you do that tomorrow morning, are you gonna believe that? And she's like, Oh no, like I know I'm ugly. Like, so so it's not gonna have a lot of value to her. So we had to create and form this concept of creating a better but believable thought. And uh so uh the first thing you want to do for this is gather up all the evidence. So my first question was, you know, what what it going down the line of what evidence do you have for this thought? The first question was, um, you know, why do you feel that you're ugly? And she thought about that for a few moments. And this is what she said. She said, I would say when I weighed 120 pounds, I wouldn't say I was attractive, but I probably wouldn't have called myself ugly at that time. Now, I don't know what this girl weighs. If I had to guess, she probably went from 120 to 128. So it's not like she went to 922 pounds or something. She was a very healthy, normal weight, but that's what she's thinking. That's how she feels. So that's what we run with. So, you know, my next statement to gather up all this evidence was all right, so if we were to take every girl in the world that weighs as much as you currently do or more than you do, and we put them all in a straight line, would you go down that line and say every single one of those girls and women are ugly? And that was kind of the first eye-opener. You know, she's like, Well, you know, I I got this friend, she weighs more than I do, and she's gorgeous. And, you know, she's naming some famous people that you know what I know, I'm sure they weigh more than I do. And I I would say they're like really, really attractive. And you know, so so the first challenge to that thought was, you know, maybe maybe you'd feel more attractive if you're at 120. Uh, but you can recognize and see that there's many people over the weight of 120 that you say is beautiful and that they're very attractive. Um, so the next part was as a class looking at, okay, what what what is beautiful? And you know, what does that even mean? So I asked them to name the most attractive people in the world that they can think of. You know, so their name in models, singers, actors, actresses. So no matter who they named, you know, I put that person's name in, and then after it I would type the word ugly. And it didn't matter who they named, there's somebody in the world that thinks that that person is ugly. So, you know, with a standard of beauty and being ugly and all these things, like that, there's there's no age, you know, there's no gender, there's no skin color, um, there's no hair color, there's no hairstyle, there's no weight. So no matter what you weigh, there's gonna be people that think you're perfect, there's gonna be people think you're too light, there's gonna be people that think you're too heavy, no matter what tone your skin is, there are gonna be people think you're too dark, not darker enough. And you know, the list could go on and on. And uh, you know, so really like beauty is they say it's in the eye of the beholder. And, you know, that there's nothing you could do that everybody in the world is gonna think, oh, you're just perfect. Um, so it's it's really gotta be kind of like under your own conditions. Um, so so the last challenge and question was Do you have anybody in your life that you can trust that wouldn't lie to you? And she brought up her friend Missy or something, and um and I said, What would Missy say if you told her that you're ugly? And she's like, Oh, she gets so mad at me when I say that. Like I tell her all the time, and she yells at me, tells me I'm beautiful and that I'm gorgeous, and I need to quit saying that and thinking that. And uh, so all that to say, when we got done with that class for this girl, her better but believable thought when she looked into herself in the mirror the next day was this. Even though I feel like I'm ugly today, I know my friend Missy tells me I'm gorgeous. I have no reason to doubt that that's truly how she feels. And so you can hear in that thought, there's nothing there that's not believable. It's definitely more positive and better than what she was thinking. And then with these better but believable thoughts, is that becomes her new reality, that now you can make it a little bit better and still keep it believable. And then when that becomes a new reality, make it a little bit better again. Just making sure you always keep it believable. So the challenge in all this is I ask my classes and even my clients, you know, when they say a thought that's more positive, yeah, I'll say, is that better? And 99.9% of the time they say yes. When I ask, is that believable? You know, maybe it's 75% yes, 25% no. So when it's a no, we just have to back up a little bit and say, like, okay, you know, maybe somewhere down the road, this will be 100% believable to you as we continue to build up. And and that girl from my class, hopefully she's somewhere in the world today that every once in a while she wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror, and says, you know what, I look pretty good today. Um, because she continued to build on these thoughts, continued to make them better, and kept them believable. So think about how you can apply this in your own life. And uh, you know, for sure, God does not want us to, you know, live in low view of ourselves. I mean, he created us, he gave us the bodies that we have, he's given us the image that we have, and you know, we should take care of those things. You know, you know, talks about treating our bodies as a temple, but um, you know, he definitely doesn't want us to be limited in life, in our calling, in our walk, in our faith, uh, just because we feel bad about ourselves. And uh, but there's so many other things you can do this too, job opportunities. You know, maybe you're going through an issue with your family, maybe you're going through some financial struggles. Um, you know, and you know, as I go and I teach high schools this and assemblies, you know, one of the powerful words that I've come up with is a three-letter word. It's yet, Y-E-T. And so many of our negative thoughts, if we just put the word yet at the end, it turns it into the better but believable thought. So, you know, I'm not where I want to be in my career yet. You know, I haven't found the relationship. You know, I don't want to be single anymore, and I haven't met the guy or girl my dreams yet. And knowing that, you know, it's all going to be in God's timing. Um, but every every single thing that you're dealing with in life, no matter how big, how small, these better but believable thoughts, you know, I think can honor God and can help us, again, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, socially, in all those different ways to make us the men and women that God's designed us to be. And just one quick side note, you know, sometimes I have clients that um tragedy strikes. You know, we live in a sinful fallen world. You know, sometimes somebody could be murdered or somebody suddenly passes away. That, you know, sometimes you just need to grieve and say, you know what, as part of a sinful fallen world, like this isn't fair, that this isn't what I anybody would want in life or expect in life. And you just need to go through the process of letting yourself cry and you know, letting yourself be angry with God if that's what you need to do. Um, but you, you know, somewhere down the line, you know, being able to use this concept and turn your thoughts to where they continue to be better and you keep building them up to be more believable. And I'd love to hear your thoughts on all this, and hopefully you can all apply this to your life. Like I said, it's changed so many of my clients and helped their mental health and uh just help them thrive in life. It's helped me thrive in life as I've overcome my anxiety and you know, just like everybody else, have good days and bad days. But when the bad days come, being able to use this can make it so much better and help me keep my eyes focused on Christ. And uh so please let me know in the comments um any any thoughts, anything that I may have missed, and hopefully you can use this and just grow into the men and women God designed you to be. So until next time, I'm Dr. Mike. Thanks so much for watching this episode of the Roar of Judas Show with Dr. Mike. I hope you are inspired and encouraged to grow in your own faith. Please follow us online. We're on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, your favorite podcast platform, all under Roar of Judas Show. Also, we'd love to hear from our viewers. Leave a comment. Uh, if you want to email us, we're RoarofJudashow at gmail.com. You can also visit us online. The website is www.roarofjudashow.com. On there, there's a link to our online store. I'm a licensed professional counselor. I specialize in anxiety treatment. You can find my Freedom from Anxiety video program that's already helped thousands of people. Also, I have a 90-day Freedom from Anxiety devotional book. 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