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Fama, M. E., S. F. Snider, M. P. Henderson, W. Hayward, R. B. Friedman, and P. E. Turkeltaub. 2019. The subjective experience of Inner Speech in Aphasia is a meaningful reflection of Lexical Retrieval. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research 62: 106–122. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-18-0222. Gauker, C. 2011. Words and images: an essay on the origin of ideas. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Roessler, J. 2016. Thinking, Inner Speech, and self-awareness. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 7 (3): 541–557. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-015-0267-y. As we do set our minds in certain directions, and make holy thinking a habit, the effect will be like gradually opening the curtains: light and warmth from the God of glory will come in, making our thoughts bloom like flowers and rise like oaks of righteousness.

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At the very fundamental level, thoughts are purely energy. They move across the synapses in our brains, jumping from one neuron to another, moving from one cluster to the next in lightning-fast speed. It’s a near-instantaneous process. If you think about moving your hand, as you think it, it happens. There’s no lag there. You’re not waiting for some CPU to crunch directives. The mind is the most powerful computer in the world at the moment. Collier, K., B. Bikel, C. P. van Schaik, M. B. Manser, and S. W. Townsend. 2014. Language evolution, syntax before phonology? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: 20140263. Langland-Hassan, P. 2018. From introspection to Essence: the Auditory Nature of Inner Speech. In Inner Speech: New Voices, eds. P. Langland-Hassan, and A. Vicente, 78–105. Oxford: Oxford University Press. There is a conflict between what my mind wants and what my flesh wants. Here I have to ask myself a number of questions that should be straightforward to answer. For example: Why should my flesh and the sin that dwells there be the winner? Whom do I believe – God or my flesh? Is the power of sin stronger than the power of God? What does God’s Word say?Meteyard, L., S. R. Cuadrado, B. Bahrami, and G. Vigliocco. 2012. Coming of age: a review of embodiment and the neuroscience of semantics. Cortex; A Journal Devoted To The Study Of The Nervous System And Behavior 48: 788–804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2010.11.002. Emerson, M. J., and A. Miyake. 2003. The role of inner speech in task switching: a dual-task investigation. Journal of Memory and Language 48 (1): 148–168. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00511-9. Yes, there’s no denying the power of your thoughts. There’s no hiding from something that’s so real and exact that it can either be harnessed for good, or leveraged for extreme bad. But what are thoughts exactly? How do they work? Is everything in our lives right now the product of our thoughts? Have we truly manifested whatever reality we might be experiencing at this moment in time? Understanding Your Thoughts self-motivation (“You can do this”), self-regulation (“Don’t do this”), self-evaluation (“Good job”), and maybe even self-entertainment; Hatzigeorgiadis, A., N. Zourbanos, E. Galanis, and Y. Theodorakis. 2011. Self-talk and sorts performance: a Meta-analysis. Perspectives on Psychological Science 6 (4): 348–356. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691611413136.

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Vygotsky, L. S. 1986. Thought and Language. Translation newly revised and edited by A. Kozulin. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press. It can seem impossible, but when Jesus returned to His Father in heaven, He promised to send us His Spirit, the Helper. With the Holy Spirit’s help and guidance we get strength, not only to endure in temptation, but also to totally defeat the enemy. This is the fight of faith. As long as I am fighting, I have not sinned! This is the life of an overcomer! This also means that I remain pure, and there is no condemnation for those involuntary thoughts. Geva, S., and C. Fernyhough. 2019. A penny for your thoughts: children’s Inner Speech and its Neuro-Development. Frontiers in Psychology 10: 1708. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01708.It is worth noting that some of these suggestions allow for unconscious inner speech, while others explicitly tie inner speech to consciousness. Some require phonologically specified inner speech, while others do not. Still others seem to require that the inner speech utterance in question not be phonologically specified, for example, if it serves to reduce cognitive load or to broadcast information throughout the cognitive system. Footnote 6