Mark Combs

“But maybe we shouldn’t be surprised. The war is in the mind. It starts there. And more men need to do war in the mind so they can win the war in the world. Our thoughts become actions, our actions become behaviors, and our behaviors become our lives.”
― Jefferson Bethke, Fighting Shadows: Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men From Becoming Fully Alive

“Audit your adult years. Can you mark any moments where your view of (and hope for) the future changed the course of your life, whether for good or bad? Try to come up with five. Create a plan to mark every moment throughout this next week where God’s promised future of glory, goodness, and resurrected life enters your thoughts. I want you to see how often or seldom you allow God’s good future to make its way into your daily life.”
― Jefferson Bethke, Fighting Shadows: Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men From Becoming Fully Alive

“Satan’s constant assault is aimed at our belief in God’s goodness and power, that God will supply all our needs, and that we can trust God to be sufficient in all ways. When our minds are on God, and our thoughts are formed by our knowledge of God, such sufficiency will flow to us. Thus Satan’s main task is to keep our minds elsewhere, anywhere but on God.”
― Dallas Willard, Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23

“What have been the moments in your life when you’ve most felt despair? What areas of your heart and story does despair touch? Can you trace a misplaced hope behind it? A hope that is cheaper and lesser than our truest hope? And can you renounce that false hope right now?”
― Jefferson Bethke, Fighting Shadows: Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men From Becoming Fully Alive