Fight Back with the Word!

July 2025

   Many years ago, the Holy Spirit taught me a very important lesson that changed the direction of my life. You see, the enemy constantly lied to me about myself. I believed many of the negative things he said because it seemed what happened in my external world matched the lies he was telling me. “Nobody likes you.” It is true that I had few friends. “Did you hear them laughing? They are laughing at you.” Add that to my already active imagination, and the enemy had given me something believable.

   My mind was a constant battleground; unfortunately, I did not know how to fight back. Worry, depression, and anxiety were the result. I finally realized that I needed the help of the Holy Spirit and the Word to get control of my thoughts and overcome the lies of the enemy.

   Proverbs 23:7, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

   If you believe the lie, then you will think upon it, dwell upon it, and even speak it. Then it becomes a part of you. Whatever that lie is, it must be contradicted with the Word of God through the help of the Holy Spirit.

   What is the enemy lying to you about? The first thing you have to do is identify the lie. I had been taken so far down that it took me a long time to identify what the lies were that I had swallowed. I had thought so long on those lies, and I thought the external circumstances proved the lies were true.

   Wow! See how the “father of lies” works to try to defeat us? 

   But “Greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world.” (1 John 4:4)

   It took me some time to learn how to take God’s Word and root out the “untruths” that had wreaked havoc on my image of myself as created in His Image.

   I pray this teaching pamphlet will be a blessing and a help to you. 

In Christ,

Annette Capps

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