forgotten no more

Just a little exposer for my friends...

2011-10-05T23:07:00.000-07:00

Not sure how I feel???

2011-10-02T12:30:00.000-07:00

Write where it hurts just released my article and I'm happy but at the same time feel kind of weird. I'm happy because it's freeing, no secrets, transparent, being obedient and then I'm really also hoping my story helps someone. The weird part is getting used to this feeling of being free and its a good thing. I keep having to remind myself to live and walk in thankful praise! Expecting God to bring the good things into my life and praise Him for it. This is huge for me because in my past whenever good things would happen thats when the worst things heppened to me so I feared anything good ever happening to me. That was the lie the enemy used to keep me in bondage and now I praise God for everything, only good comes to those who love God and He is faithful and I will praise Him!

Lisa Buffaloe's Blog: Centered in peace

2011-07-08T15:39:00.000-07:00

Lisa Buffaloe's Blog: Centered in peace: "'You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you. Note the words – ‘stayed on you.’ This shows that in order to enjoy conti..."

Comfy In The Kitchen: Follow those directions to THE T!

2011-07-07T14:40:00.000-07:00

Comfy In The Kitchen: Follow those directions to THE T!: "I really feel the need to touch on this topic because it is SO important...especially when baking. If you are a beginner cook or just are..."

Ephesians 3....love this prayer....

2011-07-06T22:52:00.000-07:00

Prayer for Strengthened Love
3:14 For this reason 37 I kneel 38 before the Father, 39 3:15 from 40 whom every family 41 in heaven and on the earth is named. 3:16 I pray that 42 according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, 3:17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love, 3:18 you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 43 3:19 and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to 44 all the fullness of God.

3:20 Now to him who by the power that is working within us 45 is able to do far beyond 46 all that we ask or think, 3:21 to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Sharing the Pages of Life: Life is Hard.

2011-07-06T20:31:00.000-07:00

Sharing the Pages of Life: Life is Hard.: "It doesn't matter who you are, how many kids you have, whether you have a lot of money in the bank or a little, if your house is big or smal..."

Lisa Buffaloe's Blog: Living under The umbrella

2011-07-05T22:09:00.000-07:00

Lisa Buffaloe's Blog: Living under The umbrella: "“When we live under the umbrella of God’s authority and seek to obey His commands, the enemy may oppose us and even oppress us, but he canno..."

Seeds and Sheaves: Tangled up forgiveness freedom

2011-07-05T21:37:00.000-07:00

Seeds and Sheaves: Tangled up forgiveness freedom: "Forgiveness. It has always sounded a bit trite to me - that forgiveness is for you, not to person you are forgiving. I have reminded myself ..."

Under God's Mighty Hand: Graceful Forgiveness

2011-07-05T20:20:00.000-07:00

Under God's Mighty Hand: Graceful Forgiveness: "When I find myself failing or struggling to love so often , I sometimes forget we have a forgiving God. Perhaps I forget because I am poor a..."

Wendy Blight: Taking Steps Toward Forgiveness

2011-07-05T20:10:00.000-07:00

Wendy Blight: Taking Steps Toward Forgiveness: "Good Morning to all my Hidden Joy sisters and to each woman God draws to my blog today. Before I wrote this morning, I prayed for every wom..."

NACR's meditation is powerful today...

2011-07-04T21:32:00.000-07:00

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:18

There are many ways to become an orphan. Some children become orphans when their parents die. Others become functional orphans when their parents divorce. Other people become orphans as a result of their parent's emotional unavailability. Anyone who has been neglected, abandoned, or abused by people who were important in their life will appreciate what it is like to be an orphan. It is a painful and lonely experience. Orphans doubt their ability to sustain intimate relationships and find it difficult to trust others. Experiences of abandonment leave us full of loneliness, fear and self-loathing.

Jesus understood the acute pain that orphans experience. In this text he responds to that deep pain with a promise of relationship. "I will not leave you as orphans," Jesus says, "I will not abandon you. You will not be without family because I will come to you."

In Jesus we see most clearly that God is attentive and available to us when we feel abandoned or neglected. God respects our needs and responds to our desires for relationship. God calls us out of the brokenness and dysfunction of our very personal orphanage into the community and fellowship of God's family. We are no longer orphans. We are God's children.

Lord, I know about being an orphan.
I know about abandonment.
Thank you for understanding my fear of separation.
Thank you for understanding my need for your presence.
Come.
Be present today with me.
I want to spend time with you.
Amen.

Copyright Dale and Juanita Ryan
I too know about abandonment and have what I would call a terror of being abandoned. Lord I need you, I long to feel your pressance constantly which comforts me so I know you haven't left me. Thank you for your mercy,thank you for understanding my need and thank you for lovingly putting this broken little girl back together. I love you so much and I stand on your promise that you will never leave me and never stop loving me. Thank you so much for your love...

"Awakened to Love" / Song of Solomon video for Jesus my Bridegroom

2011-07-03T12:46:00.000-07:00

Evanescence: Breathe No More (Lyrics)

2011-07-03T00:13:00.000-07:00

Love this from God Calling....

2011-07-02T11:36:00.000-07:00

The Child-Spirit
Does the way seem a stony one? Not one stone can impede your progress. Courage. Face the future, but face it only with a brave and happy heart. Do not seek to see it. YOU are robbing Faith of her sublime sweetness if you do this.

Just know that all is well and that Faith, not seeing, but believing, is the barque that will bear you to safety, over the stormy waters. "According to your faith be it unto you" was My injunction to those who sought healing of Me.

If for wonder-working, if for healing, if for salvation faith was so necessary then the reason is clear why I urged that all who sought entrance to My Kingdom must become as little children. Faith is the child-attitude.

Seek in every way to become child-like. Seek, seek, seek until you find, until the years have added to your nature that of the trusting child. Not only for its simple trust must you copy the child-spirit, but for its joy in life, it's ready laughter, its lack of criticism, its desire to share all with all men. Ask much that you may become as little children, friendly and loving towards all -- not critical, not fearful.

"Except ye...become as little children ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven."

And Jesus called a little child unto him...And said... Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:2,3

From 365 One-Minute Meditations: God Calling edited by A.J. Russell. ©2008 by John Hunt Publishing Ltd., New Alresford, Hants, UK. All rights reserved. No part may be reproduced without written permission from John Hunt Publishing Ltd, The Bothy, Deershot Lodge, Park Lane, Ropley, Hampshire, SO24 0BE, UK. Sent from the God Calling Devotional. For devotionals like this one for your iPhone, visit us at 43rdElement.com

Have a blessed day!!
Karey :-)

Love Heals Old Wounds

2011-06-28T18:53:00.000-07:00

Love Heals Old Wounds

Under God's Mighty Hand: Great Expectations (a pouring-out post)

2011-06-27T23:53:00.000-07:00

Under God's Mighty Hand: Great Expectations (a pouring-out post): "Image from Heart and Soul Reflections I’m struggling again. And part of what I’m struggling with is how much I still struggle. I’m part..."

Wendy Blight: Message of Hope and Encouragement for You

2011-06-27T22:15:00.000-07:00

Wendy Blight: Message of Hope and Encouragement for You: "Hi! How I have missed you girls. It has been nearly a month since I have written on my blog! Time has flown by as we have celebrated Laure..."

2011-06-27T19:51:00.000-07:00

Trauma,can anyone really explain it? What it does to your mind? I feel like I have been fighting to get mine back after almost being beaten to death two years ago. I can't fully seem to bounce back and I forget basic things about life like it's time to make dinner for the family. Maybe I have brain damage from too many blows to the head, I don't know but something is wrong. The only thing I know I have and that is stable in my life right now is Jesus and that's it. I feel like a failure and I can't do anything right. I'm so tired of being a disappointment and being yelled at all the time. I'm so tired and don't even know what it is I'm fighting for anymore...

You are accepted and You are loved beloved...

2011-06-26T19:30:00.001-07:00

I am accepted

"He hath made us accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians 1:6 KJV)

Many people have a recording in their minds that plays the same song over and over. The title? "If Only." The air play? Top 10 - not just for weeks, but for years. The most distinguishing feature of this song is its brevity - only one line long. "If only _____, then I might have pleased my dad." Just fill in the blank! "If only I had been smarter in school . . . been better in sports . . . been my brother . . . been born first . . . not been born at all."

We don't understand why this one line song continues to play after the passing of time. Yet, if we were to listen to recordings of some of our earliest childhood experiences, we could see why we are emotionally stuck in one groove.

The child who hears, "You'll never amount to anything," won't feel worth much. The child who hears, "I wish you had never been born," becomes performance-based throughout life, trying to prove his importance to everyone and gain acceptance. Perhaps the "If it weren't for you, I'd be happy" theme is the most melancholy melody of all. It saddens a child of any age.

Dr. Charles Stanley says that most of us value the acceptance of our parents more than the acceptance of any other individuals. He cites businessmen in their 40s, 50s, and even 60s who are still seeking their fathers' acceptance and approval even though their fathers are dead. The little boy inside still cries out, "I've got to get my dad to accept me."

While all parents make mistakes, in God's eyes you are no mistake. As a child of God, you are never unacceptable to Him. He says, "Never will I leave you; [nor] forsake you" (Hebrews 13:5).

Jesus understands your innermost feelings when you've been rejected. He personally experienced that same kind of rejection from His family: "He came to His own and His own received Him not" (John 1:11). Therefore, who can better empathize with your need for acceptance than your Lord!

He does not love and accept you "because . . . "; He loves and accepts you, period! When you know you are totally "accepted in the Beloved," you can lift the needle off the old warped "If Only" record and gently place it on the simple, but solid, masterpiece.

Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so . . . Jesus loves me He will stay, close beside me all the way.

from Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes by June Hunt

Seeds and Sheaves: My child...your sins are forgiven...

2011-06-26T11:35:00.000-07:00

Seeds and Sheaves: My child...your sins are forgiven...: "Proverbs 4:23 “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” He was paralyzed. At the mercy of those who wo..."

Soul Thirst

2011-06-26T11:29:00.000-07:00

Soul Thirst

I got this off facebook and had to share,thank you Jennifer...

2011-06-25T16:23:00.000-07:00

He heals the broken-hearted. He binds their wounds. He is Love. He finds those forgotten. Those have been abused. He is Love. He knows your name. A father to the fatherless. A healer of the brokeness, You make beauty from the ashes. A helper to the helpless. A fighter to the hopeless you love. Those who are alone. He comforts the lonely. He hears their cry. He is Love.
Proverbs 31 Ministry~~ Jennifer

No Idea...

2011-06-24T19:43:00.000-07:00

I am absolutely crushed right now and can't seem to stop crying. This is the kind of pain that hurts deep,the abandonment pain that I've known since I was a child. I'm turning to Jesus..."Can't you just make it go away!" I'm always going to have to deal with pain but he is here. He will listen while I moan and hold me as I cry and he promises never to leave me, ever. I can get through this now, because love has a hold of me.

Melissa decided Renee's 7-day doubt diet will help us right now....

2011-06-23T21:29:00.000-07:00

Renee Swope

Welcome to the first email of my 7-day Doubt Diet!

I'm so excited you are joining me and thousands of others in losing the weight of self-doubt. To get started, I'm sending you Chapter 1 from my upcoming book, A Confident Heart. (see below) Reading it before you start the doubt diet will lay an important foundation, and I’ll also refer back to it in a few devotions. I'm praying for you as you prepare to lose the weight of self-doubt so you can gain a confident heart!

Discovering the Shadow of My Doubts

Copyrighted Material

Chapter 1 from A Confident Heart by Renee Swope

But blessed are those who trust in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence. Jeremiah 17:7 NLT

I stood in front of my bathroom mirror, squinting from the bright lights above while also trying to open my eyelids so I could brush mascara on my lashes. My mouth opened too, almost instinctively. I couldn’t help but wonder why opening my mouth also opened my eyes. It didn’t make sense and neither did the way I was feeling.

My heart was wrestling with self-doubt regarding an event I would be speaking at the next day. I had felt honored, confident, and excited when the leader called months before to invite me to speak at their women’s event. Now I questioned whether I should have accepted the invitation in the first place. I couldn’t help but wonder, What’s wrong with me?

I needed to get ready, finish packing my suitcase, and drive to the airport. Instead, I wanted to stay home and do something predictable like fold laundry, order pizza, and watch a movie with my kids. Something less risky than standing in front of five hundred women to give a message that I hoped would challenge and encourage their hearts, bring them laughter, and leave them longing for more of God.

Questions replayed over and over in my head: What if I completely forget what I am going to say? What if my points aren’t that powerful? What if the women don’t connect with my stories or laugh at my humor? What if . . . ?

As I continued to put on my makeup, I asked God—once again—to please take away my uncertainty. I hated feeling this way. Canceling the event wasn’t an option. Maybe I could call in sick? No, that wouldn’t be good.

This was not the first time I’d struggled with self-doubt. In fact, doubt was something I had dealt with more times than I wanted to recount. As a child I doubted I was worth keeping. My insecurity even kept me from riding the carousel at an amusement park, because I doubted my dad would wait for me. I thought he might leave me forever once I was out of sight.

Doubt also robbed me of the joy of waterskiing as a young girl. I refused to try it because I wasn’t sure my family would come back to get me once I let go of the rope. I questioned whether I was good enough in college, so I avoided some great opportunities because they brought the risk of rejection. Even as a young bride, I doubted my husband’s faithfulness. Our newlywed memories include a lot of arguments about trust.

Now here I was years later, a grown woman in ministry, doubting myself again. It was getting old. I wondered if perhaps my self-doubt was a sign I was in the wrong calling. I mean, if God calls you to do something, shouldn’t you feel confident about it? Shouldn’t you want to do it? Shouldn’t self-assurance be part of God’s equipping?

Maybe you know exactly what I’m talking about. Perhaps you have prayed since you were a little girl to be a mother, and here you are with kids, doubting you have what it takes to be a good mom. Or maybe you’ve sensed God calling you to serve Him in a way that requires steps of faith, but insecurity has convinced you that you’re not smart enough or gifted enough. Perhaps you have wanted to change jobs for a while and now you have the opportunity to do just that, but you don’t want to go. The unknown is too scary. Although you’ve been miserable, at least the misery is familiar where you are now.

I desperately wanted to move out of the shadows of my doubts, but all I could do was go through the motions and pray that God would zap me with confidence. I kept hoping it would happen right there in my bathroom, but it didn’t. Doubt and questions continued to criticize me.

Once I finished brushing on my mascara, I turned around to put my makeup bag in my suitcase, which was on the floor behind me. That’s when I noticed a huge nine-foot shadow on the wall. I was surprised by how much bigger my shadow was than my five-foot-two-inch frame.

It was distorting my image on the wall by making my body look bigger than it really was. All of a sudden, it dawned on me. My uncertainty had created a huge shadow of doubt. Just like my shadow on the wall was distorting my shape, my doubt was distorting my thoughts and overpowering my emotions with confusion and questions.

The shadow of doubt had become bigger than what I doubted—myself.

I just stood there looking at the humongous shadow. Then I bent down to put my makeup bag in my suitcase and sensed God whispering to my heart: You can only see the shadow because you have turned away from the light. Turn back toward the light.

As I stood up and turned back toward the light above the mirror, I realized I was no longer standing in the shadow. And that was the day I discovered the shadow of my doubts.

Listening to Doubt’s Whispers

In the shadow of doubt, insecurity paralyzes us with statements like:

“I can’t do this.”
“Things will never change.”
“My life isn’t going to get better.”
“I’ll never have the confidence I need.”

Those are some depressing thoughts, aren’t they? But oh how quickly they weasel their way into our minds and disguise their voices to sound like ours. Sometimes we agree with them and they become our own.

These are the voices of insecurity that cast shadows of doubt over our perspective and keep us from becoming the women we want to be—the women God created us to be. Self-doubt blocks the promise of God’s power and truth to change us from the inside out so that we can live with a confident heart.

Have you ever agreed with the whispers of doubt and found yourself living with a sense of discouragement and defeat? Have you felt paralyzed by insecurity, and let it stop you from living confidently? If so, you are not alone.
Maybe, like me, you have wondered why you struggle with self-doubt. Or maybe you’ve asked God to take away your insecurities and give you a more confident personality, yet you are still waiting for that to happen. Perhaps you are good at hiding your doubts and no one but you knows the paralyzing power they have on your life.

As you read the title of this book, did any hint of doubt creep in to tell you it’s not possible to have a confident heart? It wouldn’t surprise me. Doubt keeps us from believing things can get better. Doubt convinces us that it’s not worth the effort. Doubt shouts from the sidelines:

“It’s too hard.”
“You might as well quit.”
“Go ahead and give up. Just close the book now and walk away.”

It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way

Don’t listen to those thoughts, my friend. God doesn’t want us stuck in a cycle of defeat or living in the shadows of doubt. He reminds us in Isaiah 49:23, “Then you will know that I am the LORD. Those who hope in me will not be disappointed.” Yet, doubt and hope cannot live in our hearts at the same time. As God’s girls, we need to know and believe that change is possible. We need to hope that life can be different. Otherwise, doubt will win every time and our hearts will be eroded by attitudes and emotions of defeat—but it is not supposed to be this way.

God declares with confidence that things can change—“See, I am doing a new thing!” “I am working all things together for good, because you love me and are called according to my purpose.” “All things are possible to [her] who believes” (Isa. 43:19; Rom. 8:28; Mark 9:23 NASB).

Over the past few years, I’ve found lasting confidence by living daily in the security of God’s promises. He’s led me beyond believing in Him to really believing Him by relying on the power of His Words and living like they are true no matter what my feelings tell me. Some days I do better than others, and you will too. But I’ve found that when I choose to dwell in the assurance of Whose I am and who I am in Him, I have a confident heart.

The God of all hope is calling you out of the shadow of your doubts so you can live with a confident heart! Are you ready to let His Word change the way you think, which will determine the way you feel and eventually transform the way you live (Rom. 12:2)? This will be a process that happens if you are willing to have honest, soul-searching conversations with God, yourself, and a few people you trust—conversations about where you are, how you got here, and where you really long to be.

If you are looking for a friend you can trust with the things of your heart, this book is a great place to start. I promise to create honest conversations about our doubts that will challenge us to live beyond them. We’ll look back so we can move forward, and talk about how we got to this place of being so hard on ourselves.

We’ll do the most important thing first: spend time digging deep into the heart and character of God and so we can learn to depend on His heart toward us. The next three chapters will be foundational as we examine and grow in our understanding of who God is and who we are to Him. We will take the first steps out of the shadows of doubt as we choose to embrace the reality of His measureless grace, unconditional love, and redeeming hope.

Next, we’ll identify the triggers of our self-doubt and the destructive effects they have on our lives and relationships. We’ll learn how to live beyond the shadows of doubt by holding each of our insecurities up to the light of God’s Word. We’ll talk about the struggles, uncertainty, and fears we all face and how we can learn to actively trust God’s heart as we process our never-ending thoughts, our always-changing emotions, and our oh-so-busy and often confusing lives through the transforming truth of God’s Word. We will find our heart’s confidence in Christ as we learn how to rely on the power of His promises in our everyday lives.

Before we get started, there are a few things I want to make sure you don’t miss. At the end of each chapter I have included something really important: a prayer that weaves together Scriptures we’ve talked about in the chapter and others I want us to engrave on our hearts. Praying God’s Word has been one of the most life-changing ways I’ve learned to live in the security of His promises.

One way God tells us that confidence will come is when we ask Him for what is already part of His will. “This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us” (1 John 5:14 NASB). So there you go: we can be confident we are praying God’s will when we pray God’s Word!

But that’s not all. Romans 10:17 tells us that “faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ” (NASB), so let’s pray these promises out loud again and again. That might seem weird but trust me, it works. When we pray God’s words out loud, and hear them, the Holy Spirit engraves them on our hearts and writes them in our thoughts. We internalize God’s truth as our faith grows and we are transformed from the inside out!

I also want you to take time to answer the reflection questions after the prayer in each chapter. These will also be an essential part of processing, internalizing, and applying God’s promises to your life. Be sure to get a journal or notebook to write out the promise prayers and your answers to the questions so you can look back and see what God has done.

Reading this with a small group of friends would be ideal, but if you are going through it on your own, that’s okay too. I’ve created a section of my interactive website where I would love for you to be part of the conversation with me and other women who are seeking to live with confident hearts!

Are you ready to take God’s hand and trust His heart? If so, let’s get started together in prayer.

Praying God’s Promises

Lord, I pray that You would give me a confident heart in Christ. Take me beyond believing in You to truly believing You. Help me rely on the power of Your promises and live like they are true. You say blessed is the one who trusts in You and whose hope and confidence are found in You. Those who hope in You will not be disappointed, because You work all things together for good for those who love You and are called according to Your purpose.

When self-doubt tells me I can’t overcome my insecurities, I will believe Your promise that all things are possible to whoever believes. I will not throw away my confidence, because You say it will be richly rewarded. I will persevere so that when I have done the will of God, I will receive what You have promised. My confidence is in Christ and I am no longer one who shrinks back and is destroyed, but one who believes and is saved! In Jesus’ name, Amen. (See Jeremiah 17:7; Isaiah 49:23; Romans 8:28; Mark 9:23; Hebrews 10:35–36, 39.)

Reflection and Discussion Questions

1. What is your earliest memory of doubting yourself or feeling insecure?

2. Has insecurity ever kept you from doing something?

3. Describe how it makes you feel when doubt whispers:
“I can’t do this.”
“Things will never change.”
“My life isn’t going to get better.”
“It’s too hard.”
“I might as well quit.”

4. Describe what happens in your heart when you read God’s words:
“Those who hope in me will not be disappointed” (Isa. 49:23).

“See, I am doing a new thing!” (Isa. 43:19). “And we know that
in all things God works for the good of those who love him,
who have been called according to his purpose” (Rom. 8:28).

“All things are possible to [her] who believes” (Mark 9:23 NASB).

5. What do you think hinders you most from living with God-confidence on a consistent basis? Is there a promise listed above that speaks to your greatest need right now?

6. How would you describe a woman with a confident heart?

7. Read Jeremiah 17:7. What does this verse promise and encourage you to do? Think of one situation where you could live in the power of this promise and describe what that would look like this week.

© 2011 by Renee Swope with Revell Publishing. All rights reserved

This chapter is taken from Renee Swope’s new book A Confident Heart. Order your *signed copy through Proverbs 31 Ministries today! Orders placed *before August 15th will be signed by Renee.

Click here to share your thoughts about Chapter 1 on Renee's Confident Heart Facebook page.

Renee Swope’s passion is to lead women to live confidently in Christ by showing them how to rely on and live in the power of God’s promises in their everyday lives. For more information, about Renee and her ministry visit www.ReneeSwope.com.

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Devotion taken from Leslie Ludy.....enjoy...

2011-06-20T20:15:00.000-07:00

Many of us struggle with constant thoughts of worthlessness, discontentment, resentment, or fear. Those kinds of thoughts are merely temptation from our enemy - he is tempting us to believe lies about ourselves, others, or our King. Martin Luther once wrote, “You can’t stop the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.” We may not be able to keep the thoughts from entering our mind, but we can keep them from staying in our mind—by kicking them out the moment they arrive! Giving in to those thoughts and allowing them to linger in our head allows them to take root inside our heart and begin to control our life. Remember that protecting our inner sanctuary is not just a defensive action; it is offensive as well. And one of the best offensive moves we can make is to set up a guard station at the entrance of our mind. Instead of passively allowing any and all random thoughts to saunter right on in and hang out for as long as they want, we must actively begin chasing away any thought that is not a reflection of Jesus Christ.

One of the most effective of weapons against wayward thoughts is prayer. I’m not talking about just praying defensively, asking our God to give us strength to flee from temptation. I’m also talking about praying offensively, asking that Jesus Christ, in His amazing heroic strength and power, would wreak havoc on the enemy of our soul. There is nothing Satan hates more than seeing a lost sinner come to know Jesus Christ. When our enemy is attacking us, one of the very best ways to hit him below the belt is to pray specifically for an unsaved person in our life to discover Jesus Christ.

Identify the areas of your life where you are most vulnerable to temptation. Do you struggle with depression? Do you have a weakness in the area of sexual temptation? Whenever Satan tries to pounce on our vulnerable areas, we can use that opportunity to hit him back by praying for the salvation of someone in our life that is in need of Jesus Christ. It is important that we develop this technique as a habit in our life, rather than just a one-time attempt. When our enemy sees the consistency with which we use this tactic, he will back off in a hurry, and we just might get to see another life eternally changed in the process! *