Standing Strong in a World of Deception: Empowering Your Spirit Against Darkness

Many people today are struggling to feel a sense of security in a world rampant with deception and discord. Even if you try to keep your chin up and look for the good, the world’s darkness can dampen your spirits.

As a Certified SimplyALIGN Method™ Practitioner and a Christian coach, I’m seeing a common thread of openings happening in our energy systems—sort of like chinks in our armor of light—allowing the negative energies of the world to seep inside.

For example, a couple of months ago, I would awaken in the night, and my mind would start nesting on concerns about the future. I wasn’t bothered with negative thoughts during the day. I was studying scripture, thinking positively, but it was like at night, the walls came down and negativity was getting in.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve learned to quiet my mind at night through meditation, so I was surprised to be dealing with this again. Meditation wasn’t quite working for me. My mentor, Carolyn Cooper, Founder of the SimplyALIGN Method™, suggested I look for these openings in my energy system that were letting negativity in. Sure enough, there were several. She suggested that I make sure these were closed each evening before I went to bed. I did this and was immediately relieved from the monkey mind’s worrisome thoughts and slept through the night.

Even if you don’t know the SimplyALIGN Method™, you can pray as you lie down to sleep that any openings that let in negative energies be closed. There are also other ways you can help fortify your energy so that darkness doesn’t seep in and cause a troubled mind or downright misery.

You Have Everything You Need to Defeat the Darkness

A 600 BC prophet spoke to his sons on his deathbed and gave them this advice:

“Wherefore, men and women are free according to the flesh, and all things are given to them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life through the great Mediator of all men [and women]. (Jesus Christ) or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself. And now, my sons, I would that ye should look to the great Mediator and hearken unto his commandments and be faithful unto his words and choose eternal life, according to the will of his Holy Spirit.” (2 Nephi 2:27-28)

From this, we learn important truths about overcoming the heaviness and darkness that can descend upon us at times.

1. We have the ability to choose. We don’t have to keep entertaining these thoughts and feelings.
2. We have all things given to us that are expedient for us. We have everything we need to defeat the Adversary.
3. If we’re miserable, it’s Satan’s influence, not God, not ourselves, not truth.
4. Look to Christ—the great Mediator. Hearken to His commandments and be faithful to His words.
5. Choose eternal life by listening to the Holy Spirit.

Build Your Life Upon the Rock of Your Redeemer

Another father admonished his sons, “Remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation. When the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless woe, because of the Rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.” (Helaman 5:12)

There is power in the name of Jesus! Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.” (John 16:23-24 ESV)

Hearken to the Word of God

Another ancient prophet promised that, “Whoso would hearken unto the Word of God and would hold to it, they would never perish; neither could the temptation and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness to lead them away to destruction.” (1 Nephi 15:24)

“Yea, we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon the word of God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all the cunning and snares and the wiles of the devil and lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery which is prepared to engulf the wicked and land their souls, yea, their immortal souls at the right hand of God in the kingdom of heaven to sit down with Abraham and Isaac and with Jacob and with all our holy fathers to go no more out.” (Helaman 2:29-30)

Cast Satan Out

When tempted on the mountain by Satan, Jesus didn’t engage with him. He didn’t reason with him. He said, “Get thee behind me, Satan” and then quoted scripture. Make the decision to cast Satan out and then use the power of the Word to slice through Satan’s darkness and deception. (See Luke 4:8)

We must use our God-given agency to choose the light and resist the darkness. As James 4:7-8 says, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.”

Ask for and Have Faith in Angelic Protection

Finally, pray to be surrounded by angelic protection! As Elisha showed the young man, “Fear not: for they that be with [you] are more than they that be with them.” (2 Kings 6:16)

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