(Ear)Worms and Other Automatic Negative Thoughts | Praise Podcast

What a childhood nursery rhyme and an earworm have in common. Tune in!

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00:00:01 --> 00:00:08 A goofy childhood rhyme, a lie from Satan's mixtape, and yet sometimes we buy into the distortion.

00:00:09 --> 00:00:10 Tune in for more.

00:00:13 --> 00:00:21 Hello and welcome to MoMo634, the daily podcast chock full of faith-filled inspiration and motivation.

00:00:22 --> 00:00:27 MoMo634, motivational moments just for today.

00:00:46 --> 00:00:46 My mom.

00:00:48 --> 00:00:51 If you've been listening for very long, you've heard a few stories.

00:00:53 --> 00:00:58 I remember a song based on a nursery rhyme for kids that she used to sing.

00:00:59 --> 00:01:07 The words are from my own recollection and close enough, but the versions I pulled up online didn't seem right.

00:01:08 --> 00:01:09 Nobody likes me.

00:01:10 --> 00:01:11 Everybody hates me.

00:01:11 --> 00:01:13 Guess I'll go to the garden and eat worms.

00:01:14 --> 00:01:21 long thin slimy ones short fat juicy ones itsy bitsy fuzzy worms go into the garden to eat worms.

00:01:22 --> 00:01:25 Yeah it's been that kind of day .

00:01:25 --> 00:01:25 .

00:01:25 --> 00:01:30 .

00:01:26 --> 00:01:30 no it's been that kind of way for a long while.

00:01:32 --> 00:01:34 I know Satan lies.

00:01:34 --> 00:01:35 Big time.

00:01:35 --> 00:01:40 We talked about that way back in the genesis of this podcast.

00:01:41 --> 00:01:42 See what I did there?

00:01:42 --> 00:01:48 With the episode, Satan's Mixtape of Lies, and more recently, Satan and the Solicitor.

00:01:50 --> 00:01:57 One of life's greatest mysteries for me is how Eve held a conversation with a serpent.

00:01:58 --> 00:02:06 It didn't seem like all the animals spoke, but there she is having a confab with a lying reptile in a tree.

00:02:07 --> 00:02:11 Yet, armchair quarterbacking is easy in hindsight.

00:02:11 --> 00:02:18 In fact, we listen, and worse yet, buy into Satan's lies daily.

00:02:20 --> 00:02:21 The automatic negative thoughts.

00:02:22 --> 00:02:22 Ants.

00:02:24 --> 00:02:25 Like, I'm dumb.

00:02:25 --> 00:02:26 I'm fat.

00:02:27 --> 00:02:27 Stupid.

00:02:28 --> 00:02:28 Ugly.

00:02:29 --> 00:02:32 Or, like the nursery rhyme says, nobody does like me.

00:02:33 --> 00:02:34 Everybody does hate me.

00:02:35 --> 00:02:47 But like Eve with the improbable snake scenario, we entertain these lies without pushing back, which is what the armchair quarterback in all of us believes should have happened.

00:02:49 --> 00:02:52 As I've said before, we catastrophize.

00:02:53 --> 00:02:54 Nobody likes me.

00:02:55 --> 00:02:56 Everybody hates me.

00:02:57 --> 00:03:02 To run them through our Philippians 4 thought gauntlet, is that really true?

00:03:04 --> 00:03:06 Nobody at all likes you?

00:03:07 --> 00:03:08 Not a pet?

00:03:08 --> 00:03:09 Significant other?

00:03:10 --> 00:03:11 Best friend?

00:03:11 --> 00:03:13 Parent, co-worker, or neighbor?

00:03:14 --> 00:03:15 Everybody hates you?

00:03:16 --> 00:03:17 Your baby?

00:03:17 --> 00:03:18 Your grandparents?

00:03:20 --> 00:03:27 The solution lies in a verse often quoted by an older man I worshipped with back in California.

00:03:28 --> 00:03:33 A man who has friends must himself be friendly, found in Proverbs 18:24.

00:03:35 --> 00:03:41 And of course, there's what's commonly known as the golden rule found in Matthew 7:12.

00:03:42 --> 00:03:45 Treat others as you want them to treat you.

00:03:47 --> 00:03:55 Our meme for today says, Holding a pity party is just allowing Satan to sit at the head table spewing lies.

00:03:55 --> 00:03:57 Kick him out.

00:03:58 --> 00:03:59 Here's the truth.

00:04:00 --> 00:04:01 God loves you.

00:04:02 --> 00:04:03 He has always loved you.

00:04:04 --> 00:04:11 Your homework assignment is to read Romans 8 from verses 28 through the end of the chapter.

00:04:13 --> 00:04:18 When Satan starts in with his mixtape of lies, feed him those verses.

00:04:19 --> 00:04:25 Jesus fed scripture to him in the wilderness during His temptation, and Satan fled for a time.

00:04:26 --> 00:04:33 He'll try to sneak back in like that land shark in Satan and the Solicitor, so let's all be on the lookout.

00:04:37 --> 00:05:05 Thanks for listening to MoMo634 motivational moments just for today if you enjoyed it please subscribe give it a like or review tell a friend and follow along on social media or your favorite podcast platform to have episodes mailed to you subscribe at momo634.substack.com to receive bonus episodes and support this podcast become a premium substack subscriber