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Elizabeth George's Loving God with All Your Mind (more than 200,000 copies sold) has been revised and expanded. Elizabeth lets women know that loving the Lord involves action! Focusing on six main scripture passages, she helps readers understand what it means to truly--let your mind think on what is true about God and about lifegrasp and move toward God's purpose for lifetrust the Lord in all thingsDrawing on biblical wisdom as well as personal experience, Elizabeth helps women handle their emotions and discover inner peace that comes from focusing on what is true. She shares six powerful Bible truths that will help readers draw closer to God and know His joy and love.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 janvier 2005
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736934282
Langue	English

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Loving God with All Your Mind
Elizabeth George
HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS EUGENE, OREGON

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Verses marked KJV are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.
Verses marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible , 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. ( www.Lockman.org )
Verses marked NIV are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION . NIV . Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
Verses marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible , New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL 60189 USA. All rights reserved.
Verses marked TLB are taken from The Living Bible , Copyright 1971. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL 60189 USA. All rights reserved.
Every effort has been made to give proper credit for all stories, poems, and quotations. If for any reason proper credit has not been given, please notify the author or publisher and proper notation will be given on future printing.
Italicized text in Scripture quotations indicates author s emphasis.
Cover by Terry Dugan Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Cover image Antony Edwards/The Image Bank/Getty Images

Acknowledgment
As always, thank you to my dear husband, Jim George, M.Div., Th.M., for your able assistance, guidance, suggestions, and loving encouragement on this project.
LOVING GOD WITH ALL YOUR MIND
Copyright 1994/2005 by Elizabeth George
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
George, Elizabeth, 1944-
Loving God with all your mind / Elizabeth George.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-7369-1382-3 (pbk.)
1. Christian women-Religious life. 2. God-Worship and love. I. Title.
BV4527.G46 2005

248.8 43-dc22
2004018775
All rights reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
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To, for, and because of Jim
C ONTENTS
Acknowledgment
Invitation to a Changed Life
Training Your Thoughts-Philippians 4:8
1. Thinking on the Truth
2. Thinking the Truth About God and His Word
3. Thinking the Truth About Others
4. Thinking the Truth About the Future
5. Thinking the Truth About the Past and the Present
6. Taking Every Thought Captive
Winning over Worry-Matthew 6:34
7. Focusing on Today
8. Scaling the Mountain of Today
9. Living One Day at a Time
10. Living Out of God s Grace
Pressing for the Prize-Philippians 3:13-14
11. Remembering to Forget
12. Finding the Gold
13. Going On and On and On
14. Focusing Forward and Sailing On!
15. Keep On Keeping On
16. Pressing Toward God s Purpose
Counting on God s Goodness-Romans 8:28
17. Trusting the Lord
18. Knowing God s Promise
19. Becoming Faith Oriented
20. Navigating the Maze of Life
Living Out God s Plan-Jeremiah 29:11
21. Enduring Difficult Times
22. Bearing Fruit During Difficult Times
23. Becoming God s Masterpiece
24. Living Out God s Promise
Accepting the Unacceptable-Romans 11:33
25. Responding to Life s Turning Points
26. Majoring on the Minors
27. Trusting God in the Dark
28. Accepting the Unacceptable
Still Changing and Growing
Notes
Loving God with All Your Mind Growth and Study Guide
About the Author
A Woman After God s Own Heart
A Woman After God s Own Heart Study Series
A Woman s High Calling
Books by Elizabeth George
I NVITATION TO A C HANGED L IFE

W OULD YOU LIKE ALL YOUR THOUGHTS to be pleasing to the Lord? Would you like to exchange doubt, discouragement, depression, and fear for energetic faith and joy? Would you like to know what to do and how to handle the next problem that comes your way? Then look to Jesus for the answer. In Matthew 22:37, He tells us to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind . When you do this, you will indeed find your life changed-transformed! You will begin to
work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.
reach forward and press on rather than remain a prisoner of the past.
act on what is revealed in Scripture rather than trust in your emotions.
What I offer in this book are six powerful Scriptures that have brought stability, strength and sweet peace into my life and into the lives of others. These Scriptures are guaranteed to be life-changing for you, too-because they come straight from God s Word!
Have you read the original version of Loving God with All Your Mind? Are you wondering, Why this new volume? The answer in a word is growth. It s been ten years since this book was first published. During that time, I have grown spiritually. I have grown in my personal application of these six truths through new and different phases and events in my life. I have grown as I ve shared these Scriptures in my conferences. And now I want to share this new growth and deeper understanding with you!
Thanks to the graciousness of Harvest House Publishers, what you hold in your hands is an update of what I trust you will find to be a transforming, inspiring, and encouraging book about the power of thinking on God s truth. It is substantially revised and filled with added insights and illustrations. It s language is practical and to the point. And because I understand your busy lifestyle, the chapters are shorter and more manageable. It also includes success stories and victories shared by others.
I also invite you and your Bible-study group to use the companion volume, Loving God with All Your Mind Growth and Study Guide . The additional Scriptures and the focus on personal application will further increase your spiritual growth and ignite your desire to love the Lord wholeheartedly.
I give thanks to God for the ministry this book has had so far. And I am praying that your life will be truly transformed as you think on these truths about God and look at life s challenges from God s perspective-through His Word. Then He will indeed change your thoughts and your life! And you will find yourself truly loving God with all your mind.
In His everlasting love,
Training Your Thoughts

Finally, brethren ,
whatever things are true ,
whatever things are noble ,
whatever things are just ,
whatever things are pure ,
whatever things are lovely ,
whatever things are of good report ,
if there is any virtue and
if there is anything praiseworthy -
meditate on these things .
P HILIPPIANS 4:8
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T HINKING ON THE T RUTH

Whatsoever things are true think on these things .
P HILIPPIANS 4:8 KJV
B ECAUSE MY HUSBAND , J IM, IS IN the ministry, our phone rings a lot. And sure enough, one morning many years ago was no different. As I hurried across the family room to answer another call, I prayed my standard on-the-way-to-answer-the-phone prayer- God, whoever it is, whatever it is, help me.
That prayer, however, did not prepare me for the startling request this caller made. The woman, a member of our church, explained that she had met with one of the pastors that morning because of her tendency toward depression. At the end of the counseling session, he had given her a homework assignment: Go home and call Elizabeth George and ask her how she overcame her struggle with depression.
Overcoming Depression
Too shocked to respond, all I could do was ask for the woman s phone number and for some time to think about my answer. As I hung up the phone, a tidal wave of emotions swept over me.
First, I felt concern for this woman. So few Christians face their problems to the point of seeking advice. Even fewer actually show up for a prearranged appointment. Still fewer do what the counselor recommends. And here was a woman who had done it all! And she was asking me for help.
Next came distress. I didn t like hearing that someone was using my name in a counseling session. And I wasn t exactly thrilled to be characterized as someone who battled with depression, even though it was true. Besides, I thought I d kept up a strong front but obviously this pastor had seen through my facade. And, praise God, he had noticed some victory and headway!
Then came pain. As you read this book, you ll discover that one key to loving God with all your mind is choosing not to dwell on the past or on unpleasant memories. Yet to help this woman, I would need to once again look closely at the painful past. As I made myself remember those darker days, I recalled my morning routine.
Dark days -Every day I woke up in what I selfishly considered less-than-desirable surroundings-a tiny house in the middle of a desert with no air conditioning and no dishwasher. That meant that several times a day I had to stand in sweltering heat at the kitchen sink doing our dishes by hand. (That s enough to depress any woman!)
And there I stood, looking out the window and thinking long and hard while I washed dishes. Amazingly, I could recall almost every negative thing that had ever happened to me in my life! I thought about other days and better times. I relived unkindnesses and mistreatments. I reviewed again and again my failures and disappointments along with my dreams that, by the looks of things, were never going to come true. Soon my thoughts pulled me down so far that tears streamed down my cheeks and into the dishwater.
After the dishes came the housework. As I went f