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Feature Article- Cognitive Distortions and The Power of Truth

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Cognitive Distortions and The Power of Truth

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a well know therapeutic modality for dealing with everything from emotional trauma to depression to anxiety. What most people don’t realize is that the word of God spoke first about the powerful connection between thoughts and behaviors (Jesus said “Out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” Luke 6:45)

Everyone is subject to what cognitive behavioral therapists call cognitive distortions. Although the unregenerated person, by nature, is subject to serious cognitive distortions, the same is often true of the regenerated individual. Often times the regenerated person suffers from a strong delusion as well because they have not submitted to the word of God as the supreme authority in their life and made a daily habit of washing their mind clean with the water of God’s word.

Clinically a cognitive distortion is a term used by counselors to help their clients understand that their thoughts and perceptions are subject to distortion. In other words, just because you think or feel something, that does not make it true. Many times we are under a kind of delusion (2 Thessalonians. 2:11) and we must use God’s word to correct our distorted cognitive vision. These distortions predispose us to all kinds of emotional, spiritual and relational problems. click here to continue reading this article online or click here for a free PDF copy of this counseling tool which includes 11 common cognitive distortions and the powerful biblical truths which counter those distortions or lies.

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