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Solomon · built on Dennis Deaton’s book

Examine the thought instead of obeying it — and find the truer one, centered on Christ.

The more specific you are about what’s actually happening, the more useful Solomon gets.

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Dennis Deaton, author of Looking Unto Christ in Every Thought

What Solomon is built on

You are the chooser of your thoughts.

Solomon is built on Dennis Deaton’s Looking Unto Christ in Every Thought — a book about one idea: you are the chooser of your thoughts, not the helpless recipient of everything that enters your mind.

Who Solomon is for

For the thought you can’t shake.

Solomon is for you when your own head is the loudest voice in the room. The mistake you keep replaying. The criticism you can’t put down. The thought that runs on repeat — I’m never going to get this right. God must be disappointed in me.

More ways to work with Solomon

Prompts you can copy word for word.

Here are the ways people work with Solomon.

Real situations

Bring a real situation

Instead of “help me with discouragement,” try:

  • I’ve been working toward a goal for two years and I’m starting to believe I’m just not capable. What principles from Dennis’s teaching could help me examine that thought?
  • I made a mistake and keep replaying it in my head. Help me distinguish between useful accountability and destructive discouragement.
  • Someone criticized me, and I can’t stop thinking about it. Help me examine which thoughts I’m choosing to entertain.
  • I’m afraid to make an important decision because I might choose wrong. What principles about fear, faith, and agency apply here?

One thought

Examine a thought

Maybe the most valuable use of all.

  • The thought I keep having is, “I’m never going to get this right.” Help me interrogate that thought using the principles in the book.
  • I’m thinking, “God must be disappointed in me.” What does Looking Unto Christ in Every Thought teach that might challenge that belief?
  • Help me separate the facts of this situation from the interpretation I’m putting on them.
  • What assumptions might be hiding underneath this thought?
  • What would an alternative thought grounded in faith in Christ look like?
  • Don’t just reassure me. Help me determine whether my thinking is actually true.

That last one matters. Solomon will examine a thought without automatically trying to make it sound positive.

Study

Use it as a study guide

  • Teach me Chapter 5 as if it were a 15-minute one-on-one lesson.
  • What are the three most important principles in the chapter on discouragement?
  • Give me five questions I should ask myself after reading the chapter on fear.
  • Walk me through the logic connecting agency, thoughts, behavior, and responsibility.
  • Compare what Dennis teaches about fear, doubt, and discouragement. How are they alike, and how are they different?
  • Find the passages about God’s character and explain why they matter, spiritually and psychologically.
  • Show me the strongest quotations in the book about choosing our thoughts, with page numbers.

Discovery

Ask for questions, not answers

  • Ask me one question at a time that will help me discover what I actually believe about this situation.
  • Walk me through this using Dennis’s teachings, but don’t tell me what decision to make.
  • Help me uncover the thought that is producing most of my anxiety.
  • Ask me questions that will help me see what part of this is within my agency.
  • Help me notice where I may be blaming circumstances or other people instead of seeing the choices I still have.

Decisions

Bring a decision

Solomon can’t decide for you. It can clear the mental clutter so you can seek God’s direction more deliberately.

  • I’m deciding whether to change careers. Help me identify fear-based assumptions that may be influencing the decision.
  • There are three options in front of me. Help me sort out facts, desires, fears, and assumptions.
  • What questions could I take to God about this decision?
  • Help me examine whether I’m hesitating out of genuine wisdom or out of fear.
  • What principles from the book could help me approach this decision with faith rather than anxiety?

Journaling

Find the pattern in your journal

  • Here are five thoughts I wrote in my journal this week. What recurring patterns do you notice?
  • Which of these thoughts involve fear, doubt, discouragement, distraction, or contention?
  • I keep having versions of the same negative thought. Help me identify the belief underneath it.
  • Help me write a replacement statement rooted in truth that I can rehearse when this thought shows up.

Scripture

Connect it to scripture

  • Show me scriptures that reinforce Dennis’s teaching about being the chooser of my thoughts.
  • How does “look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not” relate to the principles in this chapter?
  • Compare “my strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12) with Dennis’s discussion of weakness and Christ’s enabling power.
  • What does the story of the prodigal son teach about the image of God I carry in my mind?
  • Help me study the scriptures Dennis uses in Chapter 1, one at a time.

The opening chapters spend real time on God’s character — merciful, approachable, loving, willing to help — because what you believe about God shapes how you approach Him.

Prayer

Before you pray, and after

Not instead of prayer. Alongside it.

Before:

  • Help me organize what I’m struggling with into three honest questions I could take to God.
  • What thoughts or assumptions should I examine before I pray about this?
  • Help me put into words what I’m actually afraid of.

After:

  • Here’s what I wrote down after praying. Help me organize it and notice the themes.
  • What scriptures or teachings might help me study these ideas further?

The discerning stays yours, with Him.

Pushing back

Push back

You don’t have to accept the first explanation.

  • Show me the actual textual support for that conclusion.
  • Are you quoting Dennis or paraphrasing him?
  • Give me the page number.
  • Is that idea explicitly taught in the book, or are you inferring it?
  • Make the strongest case against the interpretation you just gave.
  • Stay strictly within Looking Unto Christ in Every Thought for this answer.

These keep Solomon honest instead of drifting into generic encouragement.

Start here

The formula, if you only remember one thing

Situation + thought + what you want + source.

  • Here’s what happened: [describe it]. The thought I keep having is: [write it out]. Using Looking Unto Christ in Every Thought, help me examine that thought, find any fear or discouragement hiding in it, and give me three questions I could take to God.
  • I’ve been passed over for a promotion twice. I keep thinking, “Maybe I just don’t have what it takes.” Using Looking Unto Christ in Every Thought, help me examine that thought, identify any fear or discouragement in it, and give me three questions I could take to God. Include relevant quotations and page numbers.

Solomon is least useful when asked “tell me what God wants me to do,” and most useful when asked “help me identify the thoughts, fears, assumptions, scriptures, and principles I should examine as I seek to know what God wants me to do.” Explore. Pray. Ponder. Discern.

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What Solomon is not

Look unto Christ in every thought.

Solomon isn’t Dennis, and it isn’t the Spirit. It helps you look unto Christ in the thought you’re stuck in — the discerning is yours, with Him.

  • All things are meant to lead us to Christ. It’s not what we know. It’s what we become.

    Dennis DeatonAuthor of Looking Unto Christ in Every Thought

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