{"id":38021,"date":"2025-11-07T22:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38021"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:41:34","slug":"251108-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251108-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Most Valuable Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38022 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/251108_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/251108_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/251108_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your mindset is your most valuable tool. It\u2019s time to screen thoughts, interrupt thoughts, extract and replace thoughts. And I know just the fellow to help us. God called him \u201ca man after my own heart\u201d (Acts 13:22 NIV). Why? He made this six-word motto his mantra: \u201cThe battle belongs to the Lord\u201d (1 Samuel 17:47 MEV).<\/p>\n<p>Goliath stood nine feet nine inches tall and wore 126 pounds of armor. David was the youngest in his family\u2014a teenager. He showed up and piped up. \u201cWho is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?\u201d (1 Samuel 17:26 NIV).<\/p>\n<p>David sees a battle; he thinks of God. He sees the Philistines; he thinks of God\u2019s armies. And he announces, \u201cThe battle belongs to the Lord.\u201d How does David\u2019s reaction to the enemy compare with yours?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37832 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-line_1-300x34.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-line_1-300x34.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-line_1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>God Made Our Brains. He Can Retrain Our Brains.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37576 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/time.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/>Stuck in your head? Hounded by regrets? Weighed down by worry? Change is possible! The thoughts that have characterized your past need not characterize the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em><strong>Tame Your Thoughts<\/strong><\/em>, Max explores three key thought-management tools and then applies them to the most common thought problems: worry, guilt, anxiety, and other types of mental quicksand that threaten to trap us. God loves us too much to let us lead a life marked by poor thinking. He has not left us alone in this battle of the mind.<\/p>\n<p>shared with permission<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your mindset is your most valuable tool. It\u2019s time to screen thoughts, interrupt thoughts, extract and replace thoughts. And I know just the fellow to help us. God called him \u201ca man after my own heart\u201d (Acts 13:22 NIV). Why? He made this six-word motto his mantra: \u201cThe battle belongs to the Lord\u201d (1 Samuel 17:47 MEV).<\/p>\n<p>Goliath stood nine feet nine inches tall and wore 126 pounds of armor. David was the youngest in his family\u2014a teenager. He showed up and piped up. \u201cWho is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?\u201d (1 Samuel 17:26 NIV).<\/p>\n<p>David sees a battle; he thinks of God. He sees the Philistines; he thinks of God\u2019s armies. And he announces, \u201cThe battle belongs to the Lord.\u201d How does David\u2019s reaction to the enemy compare with yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38023,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38021\/revisions\/38023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}