Daisy Change

The next tool the devil likes to use to distract us from moving forward in life is the hammer of fear.  Fear can come in many different forms.  It can come in the obvious form of worry, anxiety, paranoia or even the not so obvious little worries we get about the smaller things. I'm not going to say too much about this one because if I got into this topic to deeply, I don't think I would know where to stop, so rather then going into detail about how fear works and what we can do about it. I'm just going to state the 3 main lessons I have learnt about fear and then give a source list so that if you want to do further study you are aware of some of the resources available. Please note these lessons are about fear in a negative sense. I know that fear can still be good and even protect us sometimes, but I am talking about the unhelpful side of fear in these lessons.  Lesson 1 - If you give fear space to grow it will. Fear usually starts out as a thought in your head, the more...

It may seem strange that I'm starting this series by talking about acceptance as a tool used in the devil's toolbox but it does have a good reason for being the first topic looked at in this teaching.  Accepting things, in general, is not a bad thing, in fact, it is important to accept certain things in order to move forward in personal growth and there are things the devil will try to stop us from accepting.  However, there are things that if we accept too easily, they will actually stunt our personal growth. We are going to look at 2 of those things that can cause us to stay stuck by accepting them. In order to explain this, I'm going to start out by looking at it from the viewpoint of the thoughts attached to each of these things, then explain why and how it is dangerous to think this way and how to move from a negative viewpoint to a positive. What is important to remember is that the devil is a liar and so each of these thoughts is a lie. Let's now look at the evid...