Thoughts
that have come from various quotes taken from the book, "Victor - Breaking
Free From a Victim Based Society" by John H. Hovis. Click here to link directly to
the audio file.
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"The soul is a powerful ally AND enemy to those of us trying to rid our lives of victim thinking and live a life as a victor."
As quoted from the book "Victor - Breaking Free From a Victim-Based Society" by John H. Hovis Page 107.
The soul is that part of our being that is made up of our will, our intellect and our emotions. The soul is a powerful force in the life of us all. It is during those times when we are able to make our will align with our intellect and emotions that almost nothing can stop us.
Think about those times in your life when you have felt the most success. If you were to look close enough into the process that led to that success you'd see that your soul, and the elements that make up your soul, had a lot to do with the level of success you achieved. I'd be willing to bet that had it not been for your will saying "I will not give up until this happens!", or your intellect pulling together all the pieces needed to make that success a reality, or your emotions fueled by the passion of what you were doing, the outcome might have been something completely different.
That's the power of our human soul when it comes to helping us achieve positive outcomes in our lives. Unfortunately the power of our soul can also work in ways that limit our ability to ward off victim thinking. Our will and intellect and emotions can be our enemy as we seek to live the life of the victor.
The soul's response to negative things that have come our way enable our will, intellect and emotions to be empowered in ways that can create victim thinking patterns in our life. It isn't as though the sole doesn't want us to succeed. It's more accurate to say that our soul works to protect us from future damage that may impact our lives. Even though the soul is working from the place of our best intentions oftentimes the sole mistakenly creates a fear driven pattern of dealing with the potential for negative outcome in our lives. Victim thinking is fueled by fear driven actions.
When our will, intellect and emotions work to protect us from perceived dangers that may or may not exist we can begin to institute coping mechanisms in our life based on victim thinking practices. Those coping mechanisms, although helpful at times, often lead victim thinkers in ways that end up crippling them from ever seeing victory in their lives.
When bad things happen in our lives the soul works like this. The will says, " I will never let this happen to me again!" The intellect kicks in and works overtime to analyze every situation, every word that is spoken, and every action in a relationship to try to determine if that negative thing might be the result. The emotions come alive and scream at the top of their lungs, "This can't be happening to us!" So much of the powerful and valuable resources of the human soul get wasted in the attempts to fend off the potential for bad to happen rather than working to enable good to be a part of our lives.
Here's what the bible says about our soul in light of living the life of the victor.
Truly my soul finds rest in God my salvation comes from him. Psalm 62:1 (NIV)
The answer to the burdened and overworked soul when it is leading us into victim thinking is to trust in God. Don't you feel a tiredness that go so much deeper than just the physical? That's what it feels like when our souls need rest! That rest can happen as we enter into the process of learning how to trust god even more with our lives.
Don't get me wrong, it takes the lot of work to enable us to trust god. It takes our will, our intellect and our emotions to learn and apply trust. Crazy thing is, this kind of work actually feeds the sole -it brings an energy to the soul that is simply hard to explain.
The work the sole does to try to protect us all the time drains the life out of its. When we empower our souls to exclusively protect us from negative things happening to us we are discounting the power of trust in God. That strategy of trusting the soul over trusting God often works for a while but ultimately it will fail us, and fail as profoundly! When that happens victim thinking stands at the ready to take over.
Today can be very different for you. Today can be a day where you give your soul a break. When you feel the familiar panic in tiredness in your soul stop! Turn to God and trust that he has a plan for all the good and for all the bad that might come your way today. That's how a victor takes advantage of the powerful tool God has given us called the soul. Turn your soul loose today to make the most of placing your trust in him!
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"The soul is a powerful ally AND enemy to those of us trying to rid our lives of victim thinking and live a life as a victor."
As quoted from the book "Victor - Breaking Free From a Victim-Based Society" by John H. Hovis Page 107.
The soul is that part of our being that is made up of our will, our intellect and our emotions. The soul is a powerful force in the life of us all. It is during those times when we are able to make our will align with our intellect and emotions that almost nothing can stop us.
Think about those times in your life when you have felt the most success. If you were to look close enough into the process that led to that success you'd see that your soul, and the elements that make up your soul, had a lot to do with the level of success you achieved. I'd be willing to bet that had it not been for your will saying "I will not give up until this happens!", or your intellect pulling together all the pieces needed to make that success a reality, or your emotions fueled by the passion of what you were doing, the outcome might have been something completely different.
That's the power of our human soul when it comes to helping us achieve positive outcomes in our lives. Unfortunately the power of our soul can also work in ways that limit our ability to ward off victim thinking. Our will and intellect and emotions can be our enemy as we seek to live the life of the victor.
The soul's response to negative things that have come our way enable our will, intellect and emotions to be empowered in ways that can create victim thinking patterns in our life. It isn't as though the sole doesn't want us to succeed. It's more accurate to say that our soul works to protect us from future damage that may impact our lives. Even though the soul is working from the place of our best intentions oftentimes the sole mistakenly creates a fear driven pattern of dealing with the potential for negative outcome in our lives. Victim thinking is fueled by fear driven actions.
When our will, intellect and emotions work to protect us from perceived dangers that may or may not exist we can begin to institute coping mechanisms in our life based on victim thinking practices. Those coping mechanisms, although helpful at times, often lead victim thinkers in ways that end up crippling them from ever seeing victory in their lives.
When bad things happen in our lives the soul works like this. The will says, " I will never let this happen to me again!" The intellect kicks in and works overtime to analyze every situation, every word that is spoken, and every action in a relationship to try to determine if that negative thing might be the result. The emotions come alive and scream at the top of their lungs, "This can't be happening to us!" So much of the powerful and valuable resources of the human soul get wasted in the attempts to fend off the potential for bad to happen rather than working to enable good to be a part of our lives.
Here's what the bible says about our soul in light of living the life of the victor.
Truly my soul finds rest in God my salvation comes from him. Psalm 62:1 (NIV)
The answer to the burdened and overworked soul when it is leading us into victim thinking is to trust in God. Don't you feel a tiredness that go so much deeper than just the physical? That's what it feels like when our souls need rest! That rest can happen as we enter into the process of learning how to trust god even more with our lives.
Don't get me wrong, it takes the lot of work to enable us to trust god. It takes our will, our intellect and our emotions to learn and apply trust. Crazy thing is, this kind of work actually feeds the sole -it brings an energy to the soul that is simply hard to explain.
The work the sole does to try to protect us all the time drains the life out of its. When we empower our souls to exclusively protect us from negative things happening to us we are discounting the power of trust in God. That strategy of trusting the soul over trusting God often works for a while but ultimately it will fail us, and fail as profoundly! When that happens victim thinking stands at the ready to take over.
Today can be very different for you. Today can be a day where you give your soul a break. When you feel the familiar panic in tiredness in your soul stop! Turn to God and trust that he has a plan for all the good and for all the bad that might come your way today. That's how a victor takes advantage of the powerful tool God has given us called the soul. Turn your soul loose today to make the most of placing your trust in him!
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