Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace

by John Mark Comer

our fight with the devil is first and foremost a fight to take back control of our minds from their captivity to lies and liberate them with the weapon of truth.5

Because the ideas that we believe in our minds and then let into our bodies give shape to the trajectory of our souls.

“Faith…is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations.”

Ideas have power only when we believe them.

Jesus literally goes into the wild of the desert not just to get rid of external inputs but also to face down his internal inputs—and sort the voice of his Father from the voice of his enemy.

You replace the devil’s lies with God’s truth. You cut new neural pathways that eventually take root in the neurobiology of your body itself. You become what you give your mind to.

Happiness has become about feeling good, not being good. The good life has become about getting what we want, not becoming the kind of people who want truly good things.

Self is the new god, the new spiritual authority, the new morality. But this puts a crushing weight on the self—one it was never designed to bear. It must discover itself. Become itself. Stay true to itself. Justify itself. Make itself happy. Perform and defend its fragile identity.

Real freedom comes from a strategic loss of some freedoms in order to gain others.

The longer we continue to make the wrong decisions, the more our heart hardens; the more often we make the right decision, the more our heart softens—or better perhaps, becomes alive….

What starts as an act of the will eventually turns into our inner nature. What begins with a choice eventually becomes a character.

Every thought, every desire we follow, every choice we make is an investment in our future, in the kind of people we want to become.