KILLING THE GIANT OF MINIMIZATION AND MAGNIFICATION
(Learn to maximize the positive and minimize the negative)
In this distorted cognition or wrong thinking, you either blow things up and out of proportion or you shrink them.
Magnification commonly occurs when you look at your own errors, fears, or imperfections and exaggerate their importance: “I made a mistake! How terrible! How awful! My reputation is ruined!”
In this wrong kind of thinking it’s like you are looking at your faults through binoculars making them look gigantic and grotesque.
But when you think of your strengths you do the opposite. You look at them through the wrong end of the binoculars so that they look small and unimportant.
If you magnify your imperfections and minimize your good points, you’re guaranteed to feel inferior! But the problem isn’t you—it’s the crazy lenses you are wearing or looking through!
Let me remind you again of what Proverbs 23:7 says “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he!”
This is why we must be transformed by the renewing of our minds through the power and truth of the Word of God. This is how we kill this giant.
My dear friends, the way we change the way we feel is by changing the way that we think. As we change the way that we think, our automatic thoughts will become more and more positive which will in turn have us feeling good and positive about life again! Feeling joyful and happy will become the norm and not something you have to fight for all the time. Faith doesn’t make it easy but it most definitely makes it possible! You can do this!!! There was a time that you got off track with your thinking. Something happened and you did not hold up the shield of faith and block wrong thinking. Then that wrong thinking became a pattern (your automatic thoughts about life itself) and the result has been negative, anxious and depressive feelings. But the good news is that you can change the way that you think and consequently change the way that you feel! Life is going to become rich again, full again and fun again! Dear friends this is the year of your jubilee! Don’t miss this season in your life!
All of us have imperfections. We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23) That is the truth.
But the Good News is that the Son of God died on the cross so that we could be forgiven of our sins. (II Corinthians 5:21)
Romans 8:1 says “There is therefore NOW no condemnation to those who are in Christ
Jesus. . .” Confess this Biblical truth until it takes root in your mind and produces good fruit.
So what do you do when you sin? I John 1:9 says “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“For I will forgive their wickedness and remember their sins no more.” (Hebrews 8:12)
“As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.”
(Psalm 103:12)
The key is not to deny your sins, but nor should you beat yourself up over them. Simply confess them to God, repent, and then walk by faith in His forgiveness.
Then make your confession of who you are in Christ:
I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. (II Corinthians 5:21)
I am a new creation in Christ, the old is gone and the new has come. (II Corinthians 5:17)
I am chosen and beloved in Christ. Christ is in me the hope of glory. (Colossians 1:27)
Don’t minimize who you are: remember who you are IN CHRIST!
Don’t magnify who you are not: instead confess who you are IN CHRIST!
This is how we kill the giant of magnification and minimization.
Yes it is simple, but also very powerful! The truth can and will set you free from what has bound you and restore to you all that belongs to you in Christ! Receive it by faith and walk in it until it becomes reality in your life; until your thinking is changed and consequently your feelings are changed. Faith doesn’t make it easy, but it does make it possible. You can do this! Let’s kill this giant!!!
(Learn to maximize the positive and minimize the negative)
In this distorted cognition or wrong thinking, you either blow things up and out of proportion or you shrink them.
Magnification commonly occurs when you look at your own errors, fears, or imperfections and exaggerate their importance: “I made a mistake! How terrible! How awful! My reputation is ruined!”
In this wrong kind of thinking it’s like you are looking at your faults through binoculars making them look gigantic and grotesque.
But when you think of your strengths you do the opposite. You look at them through the wrong end of the binoculars so that they look small and unimportant.
If you magnify your imperfections and minimize your good points, you’re guaranteed to feel inferior! But the problem isn’t you—it’s the crazy lenses you are wearing or looking through!
Let me remind you again of what Proverbs 23:7 says “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he!”
This is why we must be transformed by the renewing of our minds through the power and truth of the Word of God. This is how we kill this giant.
My dear friends, the way we change the way we feel is by changing the way that we think. As we change the way that we think, our automatic thoughts will become more and more positive which will in turn have us feeling good and positive about life again! Feeling joyful and happy will become the norm and not something you have to fight for all the time. Faith doesn’t make it easy but it most definitely makes it possible! You can do this!!! There was a time that you got off track with your thinking. Something happened and you did not hold up the shield of faith and block wrong thinking. Then that wrong thinking became a pattern (your automatic thoughts about life itself) and the result has been negative, anxious and depressive feelings. But the good news is that you can change the way that you think and consequently change the way that you feel! Life is going to become rich again, full again and fun again! Dear friends this is the year of your jubilee! Don’t miss this season in your life!
All of us have imperfections. We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23) That is the truth.
But the Good News is that the Son of God died on the cross so that we could be forgiven of our sins. (II Corinthians 5:21)
Romans 8:1 says “There is therefore NOW no condemnation to those who are in Christ
Jesus. . .” Confess this Biblical truth until it takes root in your mind and produces good fruit.
So what do you do when you sin? I John 1:9 says “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“For I will forgive their wickedness and remember their sins no more.” (Hebrews 8:12)
“As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.”
(Psalm 103:12)
The key is not to deny your sins, but nor should you beat yourself up over them. Simply confess them to God, repent, and then walk by faith in His forgiveness.
Then make your confession of who you are in Christ:
I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. (II Corinthians 5:21)
I am a new creation in Christ, the old is gone and the new has come. (II Corinthians 5:17)
I am chosen and beloved in Christ. Christ is in me the hope of glory. (Colossians 1:27)
Don’t minimize who you are: remember who you are IN CHRIST!
Don’t magnify who you are not: instead confess who you are IN CHRIST!
This is how we kill the giant of magnification and minimization.
Yes it is simple, but also very powerful! The truth can and will set you free from what has bound you and restore to you all that belongs to you in Christ! Receive it by faith and walk in it until it becomes reality in your life; until your thinking is changed and consequently your feelings are changed. Faith doesn’t make it easy, but it does make it possible. You can do this! Let’s kill this giant!!!
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