SATAN’S THINKING TRAPS TO MESS UP YOUR LIFE
By Dr. Joe Brumfield, Harding University
1. This is just the way I am, I can’t change.
2. I come from a dysfunctional family, my
problems aren’t my fault.
3. I can’t be happy unless people like me.
4. Everything has to be fair or my life is ruined.
5. I do not need anybody.
6. Strong men don’t show emotion.
7. Strong women don’t show emotion.
8. Only wimps admit weakness.
9. Things have to go my way for me to be
happy.
10. I can’t forgive people who don’t deserve it.
11. Nobody loves me, nobody would want to.
12. If it’s okay with everybody else, that means
it’s all right.
13. I can work hard enough to prove or earn
my value.
14. I have to do everything perfect or no one
will accept me.
15. Getting things I want will make life
enjoyable.
16. If I don’t feel forgiven, I must not be
forgiven.
17. There is a magic cure for my problem.
18. It is too late for me to change.
19. I can’t change what I think.
20. I can’t change what I feel.
21. My childhood must always effect me.
22. God can’t forgive my past.
23. Too much damage has been done to
correct or change things.
24. Everyone is against me.
25. If only __________________ hadn’t happened,
then I’d be happy.
Faith doesn’t get you around trouble; it gets you through it.
—Anonymous
Luke 19:8-10 (KJV)
And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. [9] And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. [10] For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
LOST = apollumi, ap-ol'-loo-mee; from Greek 575 (apo) and the base of Greek 3639 (olethros); to destroy fully (reflexive to perish, or lose), literal or figurative :- destroy, die, lose, mar, perish.
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Misunderstood, but still true
Mary Ann O’Roark, executive editor of Guideposts, tells how as a child she kept hearing in church the words “God loveth a cheerful giver.” She thought, however, those who uttered the text were saying “God loveth a cheerful liver.”As an adult she realized, “God does love a cheerful live-r”
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