"The way we think, quite often determines the outcome of any given situation. Again, different from positive thinking, God-thinking allows us to rightly perceive the negative things in our life, like: Pain - sickness - disease - being broke - losing on the stock market - losing a loved one - feeling depressed - sadness - loneliness. Positive thinking demands that we turn a blind eye to the negative things of life. God-thinking allows each of these real things that happen in our life - these real emotions and experiences - to be experienced without losing face or going backward. God-thinking uses these things as building blocks.
Positive thinking demands denial of the real, sometimes negative things that happen in our lives. God-thinking teaches us to face each facet of life with the expectation that going through it makes us better, because, God went through it with us, side by side, as close as God can get. Our weakness reveals God's Sovereignty.
Excerpt from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell
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