Most people in the world are tormented by negative thoughts all day long.  They hear thoughts that blame them, cause them to take an offense or get angry, tempt them to do things that are not good for them such as sin, lie, cheat, steal, yell, complain, eat unhealthy, have no energy to exercise and then condemn for their mistakes.  Thoughts that cause them to lust, be jealous, get frustrated, feel sad, depressed, and even tell them to kill themselves.   2 Corinthians 10:3-6 NKJV 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.   If we don’t take our negative thoughts captive then unfortunately the thoughts will take us captive.  The National Science Foundation did a study in 2005 which found that people could have up to 12-60,000 thoughts a day of which 80% of their thoughts were negative and 95% were the same thoughts they had the day…