Be clear-minded and alert. Your opponent, the devil, is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. – 1 Peter 5:8
“You’re ugly. You’re stupid. You’re no good. You’re too slow. You never pay attention. Your nose is weird. You’re too fat. You’re too thin. You walk funny. You talk funny. Your name sounds funny. You’re missing out. You’re wasting your time. What good could possibly come from that? You’ll never amount to anything. You’re a failure. You’re just like your no-good Father. Who do you think you are to try and do that? You’re not qualified enough. You started too late. You don’t have what it takes. You never finish anything. They will laugh at you. C’mon; really? You’ve got to be kidding me. Good luck with that. That’s a great idea, but first you need to make sure you get all your ducks in a row. Don’t you dare step out of line. Remember what happened the last time you tried that…”
Just think of how many dreams, destinies, inventions, creations, careers, songs, books, films, dinner dates, relationships, businesses new fashions, new initiatives etc have been destroyed and kept from seeing the light of day…through these simple statements, made through the mouths of the well-meaning, the jealous and the fearful.
Steven Pressfield has famously described this as the voice of the Resistance.
The deeper revelation is that you have an opponent in the spirit realm called the Devil – a name which means “slanderer, calumniator, slanderer and false accuser”.
He’s actually stealing from you right now – in broad daylight – through the thoughts lies you’re allowing to operate unchecked in your mind.
His M.O is to erect strongholds – erroneous thought processes – in your mind that automatically broadcast ideas, responses, and internal dialogue that you think belong to you. These become limiting beliefs that feel authentic but are foreign ideas that have been implanted in your psyche…for the sole purpose of robbing you of your destiny.
This is your 999 wake-up call…check your thoughts and challenge your “limitations”, because they’re hiding a Thief and masking a daylight robbery that’s in progress.
Selah.