Don't listen to the Devil's lies.

Satan loves to counteract God's word with his lies. He is after all the father of lies and the greatest deceiver in all of creation. To be clear, His goal in our lives is to steal, to kill and destroy. He can not steal our salvation, but he may steal our joy by trying to make us fearful or even useless. He may well try to convince us that some particular sin we have committed has not been forgiven and that we are now eternally lost, or that God can not use us, or that we will always fail to be a Christian that pleases God. However, when we hear his lies we should treat them as a back handed compliment. After all he attacked the Lord himself, even using misapplied Scripture to try to break him down. The Lord dealt with him swiftly by correctly applying the word of God. These powerful words of Paul to Timothy will also strengthen us. We would do well to memorise and meditate upon them and use against the enemy of our souls when he comes calling : 'God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self control” (2 Tim.1:7).