Silence Your Negative Thoughts
Cameron Winton
March 22, 2026
7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
- I Samuel 16:7 NIV
1 But David thought to himself, “One of these days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
- I Samuel 27:1 NIV
1 "David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekiteshad raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it, 2 and had taken captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way. 3 When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. 4 So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep."
- I Samuel 30:1-4 NIV
6 "David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the Lord his God."
- I Samuel 30:6a NIV
OUR THOUGHTS INTERPRET OUR REALITY
5 "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."
- II Corinthians 10:5 NIV
23 "Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts."
- Proverbs 4:23 GNT
FOUNDATIONAL LIES PRODUCE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS
NEGATIVITY IS NOT RANDOM - IT IS ROOTED
HEALING IS POSSIBLE
6a "But David found strength in the Lord his God."
- I Samuel 30:6a NIV
1 "Praise the Lord, my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the Lord, my soul,
and forget not all his benefits—
3 who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s."
- Psalm 103:1-5
6a "But David found strength in the Lord his God."
- I Samuel 30:6a NIV
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
- Romans 12:2 NIV
