Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others Author: Steven Furtick | Language: English | ISBN:
B00FDS7KM0 | Format: EPUB
Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others Description
Crashing the chatterbox = Overpowering lies of insecurity, fear, condemnation, and discouragement with the promises of God. “I used to think that someone who struggled with the kinds of weaknesses I deal with daily was useless to God. I felt so often like I was drowning in internal dialogue I couldn’t control. It had been the soundtrack of my life for as long as I could remember.
Yet everything changed when I began to realize
God has given us the ability to choose the dialogue we believe and respond to. And once we learn how, we can switch from lies to truth as deliberately as we can choose the Beatles over Miley Cyrus on satellite radio.
This is the key to pressing ahead and doing God’s will anyway, even as you are bombarded with thoughts, feelings, and even facts about why you can’t do it.
I’m now awakening to the reality that we can access the power of God’s promises to constantly crash the system of our broken beliefs. I’m learning how to overpower the shouts of the Enemy by bending my ear to the whisper of God’s supernatural truths about my identity in Him and His strength in me.”
-STEVEN FURTICK, from
Crash the Chatterbox Includes discussion questions for individuals or groups.
Inside your head and heart is a chatterbox. Its lies are keeping you from realizing your God-given potential. But what can you do about them?
The Voice You Listen to Will Determine the Future You Experience In
Crash the Chatterbox, Pastor Steven Furtick focuses on four key areas in which negative thoughts are most debilitating: insecurity, fear, condemnation, and discouragement. He asks,
“What great deeds are in danger of remaining undone in your life because of lies that were planted in your past or fears that are looming in your future?” With personal stories, inspiring examples, and practical strategies, Pastor Furtick will show you how to silence the lies and embrace the freeing affirmation of God.
Learn how to live out God’s truth no matter what is going on in your life or thoughts.
Learn how to crash the chatterbox…and hear God’s voice above all others.
- File Size: 2050 KB
- Print Length: 240 pages
- Publisher: Multnomah Books (February 11, 2014)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00FDS7KM0
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I received a free copy of this book from Waterbrook Multnomah's Blogging for Books program.
This has proven to be a surprisingly difficult book to evaluate fairly.
On the one hand, there are some parts of it that are rather good. For example, in Chapter 8, when he says this about God's love, "Because it's not a love based on what I do. It's based on what Jesus has done", that at least I have no problems with. As well, the author isn't one of those "follow my formula, and everything in your life will be alright" types. As he relates in the book, he simply knows too many faithful people who have gone through some pretty bad situations, and that reality keeps him from going too far into the "You can have your best life now" type of thinking.
But while there are some good spots, far too much of the book is simply not so good.
Because what is the book about? It's about us and what we can do. "Brennan Manning wrote a line that perfectly describes what happens when the chatter gets the best of us: "Great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted."" (p. 9). The premise is that the voice of this chatterbox can somehow keep us from doing these great deed or having this greatness of soul if we listen to it's negativity. It's simply the kind of book meant to boost your ego in what you can do, if of course you do what the author suggests, which will result in crashing your chatterbox.
But if anything, the concept of the chatterbox becomes cumbersome, even for the author. He simply cannot in all honesty say that this chatterbox's negative statements are always wrong or harmful.
If you’re a Christian who often gets stuck thinking about the past, worrying about the future, or have trouble letting go of things, this book can be very helpful. It’s written by a pastor who openly and honestly writes about his own struggles dealing with a constant deluge of negative chatter inside his head. This “chatter” distracts him from hearing God’s voice. I really appreciate his candid confessions – from his sharing of the time he “lost it” in front of his son during Christmas, to the more recent discouragement he experienced while writing this book (he would have given up had he given in to the chatter). I’m glad Furtick ultimately “crashed the chatterbox” and finished his book because it contains some very helpful tips and practical applications.
One such application is in dealing with negative chatter. I put one of Furtick’s techniques to the test and saw immediate results... the discouraging chatter in my mind really did get drowned out when applying his technique. And it all boiled down to four simple words: “If… then… God will…” Furtick emphasizes that we must not ignore the negative chatter, but to face them head on. And rather than starting and ending with the usual worries… such as “if this fear occurs, then this horrible thing will happen”…Furtick encourages us to take it a step further and finish our thought process with “God will…(fill in the blank)” Granted, we won’t know exactly what God will do, but as believers we do know that God is sovereign, loving, all powerful, and that whatever happens will be in our best interest and for God’s glory. We do not need to worry needlessly since God is in control. Furtick’s technique works precisely because it brings God back into the picture (vs. focusing on negative chatter which tends to drown out God’s voice).
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