The Positive Power of Biblical Affirmations: How to Defeat Destructive Thoughts and Attitudes

By Sheldon D. Newton

Do you sense on the inside that there is so much more that you can do, be, have, yet seem stuck in a maze of mediocrity, turmoil and despair. Dont lose hope. Gods Word has supernatural power to lift you up and raise you to new heights of peace, faith and achievement.
The Positive Power of Biblical Affirmations reveals the great impact meditating Gods Word can have in your life. If you have been struggling with low self-esteem, fear, and hopelessness, then this is the book you want to read.
Affirming His Word as the Holy Spirit makes it alive in you will awaken in you the desire and strength to be all God has called you to be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 8, 2009
• ISBN: 9781469114897

Sheldon D. Newton

Bishop Sheldon D. Newton is a native of Nassau Bahamas. He and his wife, Jennifer Monique are the Founders and Senior Pastors of Jesus Christ Centered Ministries International, located in Nassau. He has been actively involved in the ministry for over twenty three years. Bishop Newton also travels throughout the Bahama Islands, the British Virgin Islands and the United States of America, teaching and preaching the Gospel, as God confirms His Word in demonstration of the Spirit and of Power. Bishop Newton and Pastor Jennifer have two children, Sheldon Randolph and Jasma Jenaris.

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Copyright © 2009 by Sheldon D. Newton.

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Unless otherwise stated, all Scriptures are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Scriptures marked AMP are taken from the Amplified Bible. Used by permission.

Scriptures taken from the Wuest Translation of the New Testament are marked Wuest Translation of the New Testament.

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgement

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Dedication

I would like to dedicate this book to my darling wife Jennifer Monique. You have stood with me and believed in me and the call of God upon my life through good times and times of testing. Thank you.

Acknowledgement

I would like to thank Dr. Timothy B. Barrett for his help with editing this manuscript and for his wise counsel in the preparation of this book.

Chapter 1

What People Say Can Hurt You

You’ll never make it. You will always be a failure. You are going to wind up just like your no good father.

Nobody loves you. Nobody cares for you. Nobody in your family ever did anything great and you will follow in their footsteps.

You are trash.

There is nothing good inside of you. Nothing good will ever happen to you. Nothing good will ever come out of you.

Has anyone ever said these kinds of words to you?

Have you ever spoken these things to yourself?

There are so many people that are living in failure, defeat and regret, and wonder why they can never seem to rise to a life of peace, joy, success, satisfaction and self fulfillment.

These are people who have accepted the negative things others have said to them and concerning them. They have received these negative words in their hearts, thought on them, believed them, spoken them and now they are living them.

I know what I am talking about.

For years I could not seem to succeed. It just looked as if I was destined to fail. It appeared as if I was cursed with a lifestyle of poverty, depression and misery.

I came to find out that much of my failure and depression was because of how I thought.

The Bible tells us that as a person thinks in his heart, so is he. (Proverbs 23:7)

My mind was filled with negative thoughts and evil thinking about myself. These thoughts were destructive to my entire life.

They were destructive thoughts.

Chapter 2

What Are Destructive Thoughts?

What are destructive thoughts?

Destructive thoughts are seeds that have been planted into the soil of our minds, which when watered and nurtured, form belief systems in us which hinder our progress and destroy our infinitives, our dreams and our purpose.

These thoughts cause us to think little of ourselves, and feel as if we are nobody and as if we don’t deserve to have anything.

These thoughts tell us that we are not special and that we can never do anything significant.

They scream at us and tell us that we will never be anything, never do anything