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3 Tests for Practical Living


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SHORT VERSION OF 3 TESTS
Is this the way I want to think?

Is this the way I want to feel?

Is this the way I want to behave?


Can I control others or life? NO!


Then I had better control what I can most control--MY OWN THINKING!
Now that I have controlled what I could--my own thinking--I now think, feel, and act more the way that I want to.

Now others and life are responding to me differently!


LONG VERSIONS OF 3 TESTS
THINKING

Is this thinking helping or hindering my thinking the way I want to think?

Is this thinking helping or hindering my feeling the way I want to feel?

Is this thinking helping or hindering my acting the way I want to act?


FEELING

Is this feeling helping or hindering my thinking the way I want to think?

Is this feeling helping or hindering my feeling the way I want to feel?

Is this feeling helping or hindering my acting the way I want to act?


ACTING

Is this behaving helping or hindering my thinking the way I want to think?

Is this behaving helping or hindering my feeling the way I want to feel?

Is this behaving helping or hindering my acting the way I want to act?



QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES
"For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God."--I Peter 2:20

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