Overcoming Threats, Thoughts, & Triggers

By Sandra Ogunremi

Don't let negative thoughts live rent free in your head. You can and must overcome threats, thoughts, and triggers!

Dr. Sandra brings us an easy to apply mode of how we ought to be prepared to deal with thoughts, threats, and triggers from getting the better part of us in the business of living. I thoroughly enjoyed going through the

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Dec 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781637696613

Sandra Ogunremi

DR. SANDRA OGUNREMI is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God. She has taught throughout the United States, Canada, Africa, and England. She coaches people on alleviating hurt, pain, and the anguish that can sometimes leave people emotionally crippled. Reverend Sandra Ogunremi derives great joy and fulfillment when motivating, inspiring, and coaching others.She has been married to Dr. Ayodele Ogunremi, a board-certified nephrologist, since 1993 and they have three adult children.She is the author of Casting Down Disruptive Imaginations, published by Trilogy Christian Publishing in 2021.

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OVERCOMING

THREATS,

THOUGHTS,

& TRIGGERS

Dr. Sandra Ogunremi

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Overcoming Threats, Thoughts, & Triggers

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Dedication

If you’ve had a positive influence in my life,

smile.

This book is dedicated to you.

Thank you for being a blessing

along my life’s journey.

Acknowledgements

I am who I am today because of God’s grace. Father, I thank You for Your mercy and for every person You have placed in my life to be a blessing to me in one way or another.

My dear husband, Dr. Ayodele Ogunremi, thank you for being steadfast. You are an example of God’s grace in my life. I love you.

To my mom, brother, sister, aunt, and all my relatives who have loved me well, I am truly grateful for you. Thank you.

And to my children, I am thankful to God for you! Never forget:

God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we could ever ask or think, according to His power that is at work in us.

Ephesians 3:20

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Forewords

Introduction

Section 1: Threats

1: Threats Defined

What are Threats?

Impending

Manipulative

The Essence of Threats

Verbal

Nonverbal

Conditional

2: Threat Exposure & Detection

Threat Detection

The Case of Elijah

Exposure

Exposure II

Gates

Where Threats Occur

Emotional Responses

Emotional Dysregulation

3: Threats Neutralized: Overcoming

Perfect Peace

Prayer

Establishment

His Word

Mind Renewal

Don’t Ignore the Obvious!

Address the Threat!

Get Rid of The Threat

Recognize What God Has Not Given You

Section 1: Recap

Questions to Ponder

Section 2: Thoughts

4: Thoughts Defined

What are Thoughts?

Images: Predecessors of Thinking

Meditation

We Can Cast Them Down

5: What Threatens You?

You’re Next & Other Lies

Fear of Being Exposed

Fight or Flight: Why Are You Running?

Generational & Societal Threats

What You Fail to Identify

Self-Control!

6: Spiritual Warfare

Know the Truth

Crucify It

Section 2: Recap

Questions to Ponder

Section 3: Triggers

7: Triggers Defined

Threats Trigger Response

8: What Triggers You?

Don’t Go Backwards

Time-Out!

Admit It

Mind Renewal

9: Lay Them All Down

Prayer

Section 3: Recap

Questions to Ponder

Endnotes

Forewords

We live in a world of media, images and unguided words, and as a result, so much is constantly downloaded into our minds. The onus is on us to mind our minds (what goes through), otherwise someone else will mind it.

In her book, Overcoming Threats, Thoughts, and Triggers, Dr. Sandra Ogunremi explicitly states some of the weapons our adversary uses to engage and defeat humans. The battlefield is our mind, and the devil uses threats, thoughts, and triggers to distort and disrupt our minds. His ultimate goal is to gain control of our minds to change our beliefs, mentalities, habits, and lifestyles, and to disrupt our relationship with our Savior, Jesus Christ.

We must be intentional in guarding all of the gates to our mind, as it is central to who we are. The devil incapacitates with fear, and more often than not, what we are afraid of does not even exist or happen.

We should face threats squarely, not ignore them. Often, we have to dig through our past experiences and exposures to see whether they are the root causes of threats, negative thoughts, and triggers that the devil is using to hold us in bondage.

Dr. Sandra warns that the most anointed