Does
your mind produce ceaseless chatter of the Enemy? “You're not good
enough.” “You always fail.”
“God
has given us the ability to choose the dialogue we believe and
respond to,” Furtick writes. (4) We can learn to listen to God and
not the Enemy. That requires learning to defy the negative chatter in
our mind, the chatterbox.
He
tells us how to block out the noise on a spiritual level,
concentrating on four confessions:
God
says I am
God
says He will
God
says He has
God
says I can
(I
would have added at the top: God says He is.)
Furtick
has great insight into how Satan gets us to questions what God has
said and how we crash the chatter with the Word of God. “When your
perspective is preloaded with the Word of God, lies lose their power
over you.” (60) He helps us learn how to train ourselves to know the
difference between the Enemy's threats and God's whispers.
“We
can never hope to crash the chatterbox until the signal (God's Word)
becomes louder in our lives than the incessant noise around us that
clamors for our attention and depletes our courage.” (102) At the
end of his book, Furtick reminds us that the chatterbox never stops.
That means we never stop crashing the chatterbox. We must be
persistent.
I
really appreciate this book. I you want to learn how to fight that
war in your mind, this is a great book with wise suggestions for
battle and personal stories to encourage you.
There
are four groups of discussion questions at the end of the book so this
would make a good choice for a four week group study.
Visit http://www.crashthechatterbox.com to watch a trailer and read a chapter.
Steven
Furtick is the New York Times best-selling author of
Greater and Sun Stand Still. He is the founder and lead
pastor of Elevation Church. He has a Master of Divinity degree from
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his family lives in the
Charlotte area.
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