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\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: Living All In, Cheryl<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/sup>For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power, love, and sound judgment.<\/span><\/em> – 2 Timothy 1:7<\/a><\/p>\n

God is not man, that he should lie, <\/span><\/em>or a son of man, that he should change his mind. <\/span><\/span><\/em>Has he said, and will he not do it?\u00a0<\/span><\/em> Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?<\/span><\/span><\/em> – Numbers 23:19<\/a><\/p>\n

The most deceiful thing Satan does is to distract us from our love for God by tempting us to focus on ourselves. That “self” that is not enough, or is utterly broken, or is, in another direction, worthy of all good things. Satan even uses the first person pronoun such that it sounds like we are acknowledging those lies…those lies about ourselves that fill our minds and cloud the truth of both who God is and who we are in Him.<\/p>\n

Anxiety and depression are both a storm of thoughts that draw us down and make us small. Not the small of we decrease such that He might increase<\/em><\/a>…no. Small in a way that He is made smaller still.<\/p>\n

Pastor David Jeremiah<\/a> recently preached about how we lose ground emotionally and spiritually by taking our eyes off God…and believing lies about our situation or identity. He uses a study of Elijah’s life to demonstrate this. In his sermon, The Aftermath<\/a>, Pastor Jeremiah recalls how Elijah in what should have been a triumphant time of his life was drawn down by exhaustion and fear (1 Kings 19<\/a>). As Elijah struggled with discouragement, he was vulnerable also to the lies of Satan. He was convinced that he was alone and was right to fear…even for his life. Dr. Jeremiah referred back to a book<\/a> he had read by Martin Seligman<\/a> about how our problems can feel personal, pervasive, and permanent<\/strong>. When our eyes turn away from God and onto our selves, we lose perspective and our thinking turns negative and even abusive at times.<\/p>\n

Lauren Daigle<\/a>‘s song You Say<\/em><\/a> is not one I would usually highlight because its focus is more on God’s view of us rather than our focus on Him. However, it has really touched my heart in the honesty of what happens when we lose sight of the great God we serve who loves us perfectly and completely.<\/p>\n

Daigle tells the story behind the song here<\/a>. This is an excerpt:<\/p>\n

I think a lot of times we build these complexes based on insecurity, based on fear, based on rejection, and lies that we have to constantly overcome. And so this song for me was just a reminder of identity. It was a reminder that I know when I\u2019m weak, He\u2019s strong\u2014so how do I change that and bring that into my every day life? When I feel inadquate how is it that there\u2019s always these moments where I feel like God just steps in and supercedes my inadequacies. This entire song was so every single day I would get up on stage and remind myself\u2014no, this is the truth, this is the truth, this is the truth. Don\u2019t get buried in confusion. Don\u2019t get buried in waywardness. Just remember to steady the course, steady the course.<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the story behind \u201cYou Say.\u201d<\/em> – Lauren Daigle<\/a><\/p>\n