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Day 2: What God Says About You

A girl sits at the table across from me. A demon is creeping up her back—a sniveling, pathetic looking thing with bony limbs and dead, gray skin. I can’t hear what he’s saying, but I know what he said: “You’re not good enough. No one loves you. You’re not worth it. This always happens to you.” He tells her the same accusations that assault all of our minds daily.

The girl didn’t do anything wrong. The demon was attracted to her distress not because he wanted to tempt her to commit some sin but because he wanted to use that moment as an opportunity for accusation. The truth is that demons are more attracted by what you think than what you do. The deeper truth is that knowing who you are in Christ determines how you think. The only way to know who you are in Christ is to know what He thinks about you. If you know what God has to say about you, then the lies of the enemy seem silly.

Jesus came and died so that our inadequacies would no longer be capable of keeping us apart from Him. I think that’s why He tells us to pursue prophecy. If you know what God has to say about you, then it doesn’t matter what anyone or anything else has to say.