202. Summer of Abundance Week 2: Train Your Thoughts for Truth

by Julie Lefebure | Jun 17, 2025 | Podcast

Welcome to the second episode of the Summer of Abundance series! This summer we’re stepping into a 12-week journey toward living the full and joy-filled life God has for us. Each week, we are looking at one key element of abundant living—rooted in God’s Word and relevant to our real lives. Now that we know who we are in Christ, let’s talk about how to think like women who believe that and to train your thoughts for truth. It matters what we think, and we’ll see why in this episode.

Summer of Abundance Week 2: Train Your Thoughts for Truth | sand, beach hat, sunglasses, camera, shells

I’d love it if my brain was naturally wired to always dwell on truth. Maybe you have this gift, but I do not. I have to work at it. Training my thoughts for truth is a deliberate action I take every day. I’ve learned if I don’t, my thoughts tend to drift southward to what’s untrue. I share an example of how a text recently caused my thoughts to take a downward spiral and what I did to change it.

What are you believing today? What am I?

The element of a renewed mind is a must if we want to live an abundant life. We can’t begin to live an abundant life if our thoughts are cluttered with lies, negativity, or fear. Yet, so many women today are stuck today not because of their circumstances but because of the thoughts they rehearse daily. We don’t need to–and we probably shouldn’t–believe every thought we think.

We must continue to train our thoughts for truth–not react to them, because our minds continue to be a battlefield. Christine Cain says, “We have to think God’s truth and say it daily — because it is only the truth we know that sets us free.”

We study two key verses, Romans 12:2 and Philippians 4:8, and I offer a three-step process to train your thoughts.