To maintain sanctified thinking, we must control anxious thinking patterns. Catastrophizing, negative projecting about the future and overgeneralization come against the joy and peace that is ours in Christ.

Numbers 13:23-14:1 – Catastrophizing (predicting that things will turn out badly) and overgeneralization destroy sanctified thinking.

Numbers 14:2-22   Ten times they lost control.

By the Red Sea:  Exodus 14:11-12

Desert of Sin:  Exodus 16:2-3

At Rephidim:  Exodus 17:3

Romans 8:15   We are not the slaves of fear; we are the sons of God.

1 Peter 5:5-9; 2 Timothy 1:7   Give your anxiety to God; claim what is yours in Christ.

John 14:27; 15:10

Matthew 6:34; Hebrews 3:7-12, 15; 4:7   Stop negative predictions; live one day at a time.

Psalm 62:5-8   Have godly self-talk.

Philippians 4:4-9   Stop overgeneralization; pray and focus.

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