The Importance of Preaching to Yourself
In his book Spiritual Depression: It's Causes and it's Cure , D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones talks about the importance of not listening to yourself ever. But instead we are called to speak truth into our lives, by reminding ourselves of how God views us, and our situation. Pastor and Author, Joe Thorn, also communicates this important truth in his book, Note to Self: The Discipline of Preaching to Yourself. In this book, Thorn communicates the importance of something that every Christian leader must become a master of, and that is the discipline of preaching to ourselves! The reason we want to effectively preach to ourselves the truths of God's Word for our lives is be cause the alternative is talking to and listening to ourselves. We live in a fallen world, and part of the effect that our fallenness has upon our lives is that we are constantly being influenced by negative self-talk, which in most cases causes us to begin believing the negative in...