Madison Prewett Trout

And I think there's a lot of cultural lies that we face in the world we're living in today and temptations and pressures, as well as a lot of internal personal lies that we often feel and face, whether that's the way we were raised or something that's happened to us or something that we've done or just what we feel and how we're wired.

And so I know for me personally, just to get vulnerable and real, a lie that I've often believed is that I'm not good enough and I have to strive and perform and prove myself

to be good enough.

I mean, even just this last week, I confessed to my husband and I just said, man, I feel like a failure right now.

I feel like a failure in my career.

Some of the goals that I've set, I haven't reached them.

I didn't meet it.

And just looking at the outcome of those things, like I feel like a failure.

But it's so crazy how the enemy, it might look different for all of us, but it leaves the same feelings on the inside.

That lie may mask itself totally different to someone else or may come in a different package, but it still leaves the same feelings on the inside, you know?

I mean, those are the same things I've had my family members or my husband or my friends confess to me too, you know?

And what's crazy is when I then feel like a failure in kind of my workspace life, then it carries into even my home life.

And then I'm like, well, I don't have enough energy or time to be there for my spouse and my daughter the way that I want to be.

And so now I feel like I'm failing as a mom.

I feel like I'm failing as a wife.

And so that's one of the internal personal lies that the enemy comes at me with, especially in this last season for me.

I think cultural, one of the biggest lies that we all face that I've faced many times throughout my life is that we can get good outside of God.

And you see that all the way back in the Garden of Eden.

You see that in one of the original lies and temptations that the enemy comes at Eve with.

And it's still the same play that he runs today, that we can find good outside of God, that we can be our own God.