When we respond to attacks of doubt, distortion, and deceit with the truth of God's Word, the fiery dart is extinguished and the enemy takes another hit.

We are free when, and only when, we allow Him to be in control.

There is nothing that Satan can do for his evil cause that he does not do. We may be halfhearted, but he never is. He is the very image of ceaseless industry and untiring earnestness. He will do all that can be done in the time of his permitted rage. We may be sure that he will never lose a day.

Keep Your servant from willful sins; do not let them rule over me. Then I will be innocent, and cleansed from blatant rebellion. Psalm 19:13

Bow down to him, for he is your lord. Psalm 45:11

Who are you— anyone who talks back to God? Romans 9:20

We can remain surrendered to the cause of Christ, sacrificial and sanctified, gospel driven to the bone, and our fruitfulness can still suffer loss. All the devil has to do is lure us away from abiding in Christ.

If we keep fighting our own inner battles. We'll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.

Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a high station morally, ethically, or spiritually.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

On the field of the Self stand a knight and a dragon.   You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.