Daily Inspiration

 Daily Inspirational Thoughts

to bless your life.

Monday through Thursday

The week of February 16, 2026

by

Beth McLendon

Topic for this week:

Becoming

an

AMAZING Christian who follows Jesus!

We become AMAZING as we follow our

AMAZING GOD!

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Let's Learn to be 

AMAZING

Monday 

You can be a

born - again Christian

headed to heaven

and

still think with your old brain.

Your spirit may be

new

but

your mind is still running on old programming.

God tells us to

"Renew our Mind."

This video gives help for us to 

Renew our Mind.

Disclaimer: I disagree when the video says, "This doesn't mean your faith is weak." I think it does mean your faith is weak. 

As we renew our mind,

our faith

becomes stronger.

Monday Thoughts Continued:

This week

we are learning more about how to...

Challenge old thought patterns

with

TRUTH.

Your mind

naturally

continues to think the way you always have.

This happens

even though

you have given your life to Jesus.

We must TRAIN our mind to think like Jesus.

When we think like Jesus,

we will act like Jesus.

Our mind

naturally defaults

to the thoughts and actions

that we have practiced the most.

Those well-practiced thoughts and actions

are like the well-worn paths below.

In the picture above,

there are two well-worn paths.

Our mind naturally follows

well-worn paths of thought.

As Christians,

God calls us to make NEW paths of thought -

and of actions!

God gave us a mind that is ready

to be trained

to change

and

think new thought patterns

based on

what we

repeatedly think, say, and do.

To become more like Jesus

we need to

choose to

apply intentional effort

to...

reading God's Word with a teachable heart

and to

obeying God's Word.

-

As we become consistent in these two things,

we will change.

-

And when we fall deeper in love with God,

then our change

will not only be strengthened by our continual practicing,

but also

our change will be

anchored in new desires we have developed.

" Don't be like the people of this world,

but let

God

change the way you think.

Then

you will know

how to do everything

that is

good and pleasing to him. "

Romans 12:2 CEV

Tuesday 

Today

we find out more about...

Information on

HOW

repeating God's Word

rewires our mind

" So then

faith cometh by hearing,

and

hearing by the Word of God. "

Romans 10:17

Wednesday 

Today

we find out more about...

Strongholds,

Hindrances,

and

6 Easy Steps

to

rewire your brain.

Biblical meditation

It is using the mind to think about Bible Scriptures.

And speak out-loud God's Scriptures.

God wants us to do Bible meditation.

2. Non-biblical Meditation

This is a dangerous type promoted by the world.

In it, you empty your mind and try not to think.

Some people even tell you to

encourage voices to speak to you.

Please consider our page on

ungodly, worldly meditation - click here

Steps from the video

1. Get still before God.

This just means slow down, and
turn off
all distractions.

2. Meditate in a godly way

in His truth.

That does not mean emptying your brain.

3. Affirm the truth. Speak it.

When you speak truth,

your brain re-wires around that truth. 

4. Practice for 21 days.

Note that -

It takes some people a lot more than 21 days.

But keep standing firm and continue.

5. Make it a morning and night routine.

Psalm 63:1

Psalm 16:7

Deut. 6:7

6. Make it a lifestyle.

Romans 12:2

Philippians 4:8

Col. 3:16

Put on

The Whole Armor of God.

See our

Armor Prayers - Here

Also,

continue

to learn about HOW to train your mind.

This is powerful information on

HOW to break

Strongholds.

Thursday 

Today

I am sharing more about growing spiritually.

I have a theory -

I have a theory that we really don't like to lie.

So....

My theory is that we naturally 

reinforce in our mind

as truth

what

we speak out-loud.

Let's take lying

as an example.

When a person tells a lie,

that person then tries to justify

that the lie is true.

A Simple Example

A person says,

"I didn't steal the cookie."

Then thoughts such as these flow...

"Well, it is not really stealing.

I'm just taking one cookie.

And I brought cookies and shared them previously.

So that person owes me a cookie. "

And

on and on the thoughts go.

-

That action of

" reinforcing lying "

by justifying it,

is not good for your soul.

We have to come against that natural tendency.

Speaking God's Word

 - even if we don't totally believe it in our heart - 

is NOT lying.

In Mark 9:24 b NKJV

a man said to Jesus,

“ Lord, I believe; help my unbelief! ”

We all have struggled

with solidly believing God's Word.

I teach people

to use that information about our natural tendencies

in godly ways to reinforce God's Word.

I use it to teach people

to tell themselves God's truth

while allowing godly thoughts

that come into their head,

to help reinforce God's truth.

See example below.

Here is an Example

of using this tendency in a godly way for godly purposes....

When people

are not totally solidified

in the truth that God loves them,

then this happens......

They will say,

"I am not sure God loves me"

and then

find reasons to bolster that sentence.

They naturally give reasons

why

what they just said is truth.

This is because

they innately

want to speak honestly

about their feelings and thoughts.

But

it is also because we naturally justify what we say.

The result

of disagreeing with God

is

that

we sabotage our spiritual growth.

To renew our mind -

we can use that theory

and tweak (adjust) it a bit

so it becomes an advantage to us. 

The Process

of

Saying God's truth and Believing it

If I often say,

"I am sure God loves me"

then

I will begin to think of reasons 

that I am telling the truth. 

If I say,

"I am sure God loves me"

and if

I shut down negative thoughts,

I will

naturally begin to think godly reasons

about

why God loves me.

Then my mind will slowly change to believe God!

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Of course, you also encourage godly thoughts to flow.
Yet, it probably won't be as hard as you think it is because we naturally want to tell the truth. 

When you speak God's Truth - you speak Truth!

God wants us to speak truth

about what HE says is true.

He wants us to

renew our thoughts and feelings by HIS truth.

So -

If we will persist and continue to say,

"I am sure God loves me."

while

intentionally coming against negative thoughts pouring

unrestricted,

we

will begin to 

have thoughts that reinforce that God loves me!

We do that,

because we naturally want to justify 

that what we say is true. 

As you practice this over and over....

your innate tendencies

to justify

that

what you say > is the truth

will

help you more and more

because

you actually want to speak truth

and

your mind

is getting renewed to God's truth BEING truth

in the depths of your being.

This

will take a little determination -

but it actually moves you forward spiritually.

And God's truth

about his love

will FEEL good as it gets solidified in you.

Consider our pages

Capture Your Thoughts

Renew your Mind

Morning Scriptures