book was really great at helping me to realize what thoughts I was allowing to be present in my head most of them were negative and selfdefeating.
The book also gave me great tools to use to change my thought process and have a more positive outlook, If one christian woman I love and admire is Joyce Meyers, She knows what she is talking about and what I love about her she keeps it real and we need that in our daily life.
We need to keep it real and be real with ourselves and with others, She pratice what she preach, She has been there and know what we all faces in life and what we go thru emotionally,
My advice to all my friends and check her out and read her book it will blow your mind, Her book help not only women but everyone how to deal with your emotional issues and behavior she is like a Christian Dr, LoL that is how I see her,
Her books has help me and heal me in my journey of life and so I want to share with you what has help me in my life.
She is on cable and has her own tv program find in your tv guide for her listing and check her out I know u going to love her.
I hope I can bless someone! By sharing you what has help me personally, I was given this book by a family member, I knew who Joyce Meyer was but hadn't watched her on tv or listened to her preach, so I didn't come in with an opinion.
Overall, it's not a terrible book, and there are a few places where she is inspiring in explaining how to change your perspective, The book is not really appropriate for someone in need of clinical help, though, It's the same as so many other books, with a lot of "feel better by thinking better," which isn't helpful for me and presumably for many people.
I was much better helped by the book Grace for the Afflicted, which specifically addressed clinical problems and paired them with biblical discussions,
Meyer's writing style is easy to read and the chapters are brief, If you're just going through rough times, this book would likely be helpful, Some of her stylistic choices were a little annoying for me, however, Her need to add bracketed expansions and explanations to the scriptures she included was incredibly distracting for me and actually made the scriptures more difficult to read, so much that I started specifically skipping her additions.
I also feel as though many of her anecdotes seem to be grasps for examples for the book, Perhaps finding better anecdotes from others would have helped more,
If someone is going through a temporary rough time, such as after a divorce, this book might be helpful, But for serious issues that have required medical attention, I wouldn't recommend it, as it might have a condescending effect, I found myself getting a little irritated at times with her point of view, I'd recommend Grace for the Afflicted, which I mentioned earlier in this review, or When God Doesn't Make Sense, by James Dobson, I had a lot of expectation going into reading "Battlefield of the Mind" by Joyce Meyer, It's her most popular book and I have never been dissapointed by a Joyce Meyer book and this one was no exception, "Battlefield of the Mind" is jammed packed with insight, knowledge, wisdom and truth! I've been listening/reading Joyce for years and in this book, she shares personal stories and examples that I've never heard before which I thought was exciting.
. . stories about her life of ministry, her background and her marriage, It makes me feel comforted that Joyce has delt with mental battles and overcame them and I can too! There are three parts in the book and I especially liked part two because it talked about how to deal with doubt, with anxiety, with confusion and worry.
Part three talks about the "wilderness mentalities"and Joyce uses the example of the children of Israel
spendingyears in the desert and how their mental state prohibited them from advancing forward.
Some chapters weren't exactly what I deal with like a passive mind chapter and then some are completely talking about me like a wandering mind, so it's nice to have such a range of topics to glean from.
I know any reader can appreciate this book and learn so much from it! I highly recommend!!
Worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger and feelings of condemnation: all these are attacks on the mind.
If readers suffer from negative thoughts, they can take heart! Joyce Meyer has helped millions win these allimportant battles, In her most popular bestseller ever, the beloved author and minister shows readers how to change their lives by changing their minds,
She teaches how to deal with thousands of thoughts that people think every day and how to focus the mind the way God thinks.
And she shares the trials, tragedies, and ultimate victories from her own marriage, family, and ministry that led her to wondrous, lifetransforming truthand reveals her thoughts and feelings every step of the way.
This special updated edition includes an additional introduction and updated content throughout the book, A drawing point for me to this book was that chess pieces were on the front cover, I find it odd that someone chose to have the white king submitted, while the black king stands victorious over him, What is this symbolic of Before I get lost in this, I'll move on,
Joyce Meyer is either loved or hated, as are many TV evangelists there are not many inbetweens, I guess I fall inbetween,
This book is very simply written, It is doublespaced and comes in atpages, The bibliography consists of the "Random House Unabridged Dictionary", "Strong's The New Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible", "Vine's An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words", and "Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary".
"Battle Field of the Mind" has sold overmillion copies, People are essentially simpleminded. Isaac Asimov stated that his objective in writing, was to write as simply as possible, being as clear as possible, Well done then, Joyce, good and faithful servant,
The contents of "Battle Field of the Mind" are broken into three parts: "The Importance of the Mind", "Conditions of the Mind", and "Wilderness Mentalities".
The main message found here is to "think about what you are thinking about", Various scriptures taken from the Amplified Bible, as well as King James, are spread throughout the book, validating Meyer's teachings on the mind,
Though I was not impressed with Joyce's writing style, I appreciated her insights, and her knowledge of the Bible, Certainly, there are things here to think about, and think deeply about,
Confessing not only covers our sin, but also helps us to recognize and analyze where it is that we are habitually falling into sin.
Socrates tells us "A life unexamined is not worth living, " The writer of Proverbs tells us "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he, " By examining our thinking, our minds, we are better able to examine our lives, As Joyce states more than once: "The mind is the battlefield, "
All was well with Joyce and I until I came to chapter, within which she argues that reason is an abnormal way of thinking, and that reason leads to confusion.
I believe she takes Matthew,, James:, Proverbs:, andCorinthians:,completely out of context, Paul said he resolved to know nothing among us except Jesus Christ, Without reason, we could not recognize Paul as being paradoxical he is truly one of the most logical and intellectual writers in the bible! Joyce's book here was written using reason, which, in the image of God, we were gifted with granted she used a smaller portion of reason in her writing than say, Charles Spurgeon.
So, this chapter, in my opinion, needs to be completely trashed and rewritten, Reason is not abnormal thinking, It is a wonderful tool without which we would only have religion,
Myer Pearlman states that "theology literally means 'a treatise or reasoned discourse about God', Theology, or doctrine, may be described as a science which deals with our knowledge of God and His relations to man, We call theology a science because science is the systematic and logical arrangement of certified facts, Theology consists of facts relating to God and Divine things, presented in an orderly and logical manner,
Religion comes from a Latin word meaning 'to bind' religion represents those activities which bind man to God in a certain relationship.
Theology is knowledge about God, Thus religion is practice, while theology is knowledge, Religion and theology should go together in the balanced experience but in practice they are sometimes separated so that one may be a theologian without being truly religious and on the other hand one may be truly religious without possessing a systematic knowledge of doctrinal truth.
'If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them," is God's message to the theologian, 'Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth'Tim,:, is God's message for the spiritual man, "
Is that not brilliant Bravo!, Mr, Pearlman, Bravo!
Joyce Meyer, we do not need to fear reason it will not lead to atheism, unless applied in earnest to atheism which should then, if the logician is honest, in the very least, lead the atheist to agnosticism.
We are to apply our Godly ratiocination to his Word, I don't know how Joyce reasoned herself into such an unreasonable reasoning of reason, I don't think it's just her, I think that the Body of Christ is terrified of logic, and sees it as cold and terrible, This is why they are called "religious folk",
After Chapterof "Battle Field of the Mind" I truly began to appreciate the depth of Meyer, which at first appearance, to me, seemed shallow.
This is the beauty of the book and the same beauty can be found in the gospel, It seemed to me too, that by the end of the book, Joyce's vocabulary was expanding, and her prose growing sharper I realize that she has written overpublished books.
There is a lot of information covered in the book that I'd like to get into, Reading it once seems a shame, therefore, in this case, unlike the cases of many other books, a workbook would be preferableI'll be keeping my eye out for one.
Joyce points out many historical facts of the bible, including that it was anday journey the Jews had to cross over into the promised land God kept them in the wilderness foryears in turn, her "Wilderness Mentalities" section was quite insightful.
I think her favorite word at the time of writing this was "exhortative" she used it much, I too enjoyed the little tales of trials in her personal life, and the wisdom she gleaned from them, I hear she is writing fiction now which I'd be interested in reading,
I might point out another oddity in the book, which I found highly entertaining, In Chapter, under "Meditate and Be Healed", Joyce states that:
"My appearance has been changed during the pastyears, People tell me that I actually look at leastyears younger today than I did when I first began to diligently study the Word and make it the central focus of my entire life.
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It is quite common knowledge now that Joyce Meyer has gone under the knife I thought she was hotter before, as a friend told me I was the type that would always choose the before pictures on those infomercials, and he's right.
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For our church group we read this book, Once we got to the chapter where she was describing talking in tongues we all decided this was not the study for us and we ended it.
We decided Joyce Meyer probably was not for our group and we continued on with a Beth Moore study instead,I liked the straightforward manner in which this book was written, There was a lot of practical, insightful information, I suspect my mind works very similarly to the way Joyce Meyers' did before she learned the lessons outlined in this book, One of the many points I appreciated was that we want our mind to be in a state of rest, which allows us to be led by the Spirit more readily.
This would be in stark contrast to those occasions when we let our thoughts run rampant, as they are sometimes prone to do, There were many other nuggets I took away from the book as well, I hope they stay with me a long time, First to know, this is a religiousbased book, The author, Joyce Meyer, is a popular Christian author and speaker, Her television and radio programs air in many languages and countries, She has also written many books on Christianity, this being one of the more popular,
Battlefield of the Mind is about solving some of the common problems we all encounter in life, such as depression, anger, or worry, by getting you to examine the way you think about things, or as the book puts it, "you need to begin to think about what you are thinking about.
" And that's basically the goal of the whole book,
Other major points include:
our actions are a direct result of our thoughts,
thoughts take place in your mind, so your mind is in essence "the battlefield"
if you have a negative mind, you will have a negative life
on the other hand, if you renew you mind according to God's Word, you will have a positive life
Much of the book is devoted to getting the reader to change their thinking and discusses how to tear down the "strongholds" that the devil tries to set up in the mind.
Joyce uses parables and many personal examples along the way which makes the book very interesting to read, I personally found it very helpful in my own battles over my mindfulness, .
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