Think Again!

Chapter 2: I Don’t Think I Want to Be a Part of This Confrontation • 31

• You’re not really a Christian – look at what you just did. • No one is going to talk to you at the party because you are a loser. • They don’t respect you because you don’t deserve respect. • Even when you try your best to find a boyfriend/girlfriend, no one is interested in you. • You’ll never change. Boom, boom, boom; every day you are bombarded by the incessant, constant pounding of lies to devalue yourself. In fact, he disguises his message by making them seem like they are your own ideas , not his. 15 Designing a personalized attack strategy, he chips away you. He knows what is effective on you won’t work on me, and what works on me won’t be tempting to someone else. Every single human has enough fears for the evil one to formulate an effective, individualized devaluation strategy. But devaluing is just the first stage. Globalizing Once you agree with his lies, he has gained a foothold and will proceed to globalize your situation: • Since you failed this time, you will always fail. • Since you feel lonely now, you will always feel lonely. • Since you are divorced, no one will ever love you again. • Since your spouse yelled at you, you’ll never have a good marriage. • Nothing goes right with you, everything you touch fails. • Because no one talked to you at the party, no one will ever talk to you at a party again.