God's Psychiatry

Recommended Reading – God’s Psychiatry
God’s Psychiatry by Charles L. Allen

I love this book. It is the application of scripture to the healing of the mind and the soul. It does what I love to do – it ponders each verse in a passage, specifically Psalm 23, The Ten Commandments, The Lord’s Prayer and The Beattitudes.

I like his subject titles as well.
How to Think of God – Psalm 23
God’s Rules for Living – The Ten Commandments
How to Talk to God – The Lord’s Prayer
The Keys to the Kingdom – The Beattitudes

In How to Think of God he prescribes the 23rd Psalm 5 times a day for 7 days. Its power is not in memorizing the words, but rather in thinking the thoughts.

I love his descriptions of the sheep and the shepherd throughout Psalm 23. The idea of Christ as The Good Shepherd is much more powerful if you fully understand the intimate relationship between a shepherd and his sheep.

In God’s Rules for Living you come to understand that when you break the law the law stands. What lies in broken pieces is the man.

In How to Talk to God the words become more than something to say they become something to pray.

In The Keys of the Kingdom you find that unless the keys are used they are useless.

How you think matters.
What you store in your heart matters.

“If we really desire God we will do those things which will cause us to experience God.”
            Charles L. Allen

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