Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

by Louie Giglio

Monday. My God knows my name. (Isaiah 43:1) Tuesday. My God goes before me. (Deuteronomy 31:8) Wednesday. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13) Thursday. My present suffering pales in comparison to my future glory. (Romans 8:18) Friday. No weapon formed against me will prosper. (Isaiah 54:17) Saturday. I am a child of God. (Romans 8:16) Sunday. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives in me. (Ephesians 1:18–20)

“Those who look to him [the Lord] are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.”

If you’re looking to the Lord, you are radiant. Your face is reflecting the light and love of Christ. You are never covered with shame. It can be hard to forgive yourself.

Your new identity forms when you agree with Jesus. He says you’re a son or daughter of God. Jesus says you’re forgiven. Do you agree with Him?

In the midst of the battles that are raging, He is near. The Good Shepherd is available and accessible. He has invited you to go as deep in your relationship with Him as you desire.

There is a God of infinite greatness, and He has invited you to know Him deeply and closely and richly. The invitation is to sit with Him. To experience Him for yourself. To be in His presence.

one of the strongest things we can do to prevent the Enemy from sitting at our table is to be completely transfixed on the Host who is sitting at our table with us.

Lingering with the Almighty is the best defense against the Enemy who’s trying to get at your table.

needed to move past the information I knew about God to truly, intimately know God Himself.

Winning the mind battle means replacing old, harmful thoughts with new, life-giving thoughts. The thinking of these new thoughts will result in doing different things—changed behavior.

I am in God’s story.

I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” (Jeremiah 29:11).

I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

(Psalm 139:13–14).

My life has purpose.

“We are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10).

The cross has the final word.

“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17 BSB). I serve at the pleasure of the King.

“You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you

out of darkness into his wonderful light” (1 Peter 2:9). Jesus is Lord, and Jesus is my Lord.

“God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9–11). My God turns evil into good.

“We know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28 NASB).