silencing the lies that steal your confidence

If we can identify them, we can stop them.

The arrows he fires at me may be different than the arrows aimed at you, but they both can pierce and hurt. Once we have narrowed in on who is firing the shots at us, we can hone in on the specific lies he likes to use on us. I’m all about giving credit where credit is due, so let’s remember that Satan is the author of lies. Our enemy is the same one Eve encountered. It’s not our spouse or our seemingly perfect coworker or our uber-righteous neighbor.

Jaynes shows us that to fight a worthwhile battle, we need to know our enemy. Easy to relate to because many of us fight the same battles, Jaynes partners with the reader and walks her through a journey from lies to truth.īroken into two parts, Jaynes uses the first portion of her book to break down the problem and the solution. Written by a woman, for women, Jaynes includes personal narratives of her struggle with distorted thinking as well as all-too-familiar recounts from other modern day women. Silencing the Lies that Steal Your Confidence. It’s this historic and pending problem that Sharon Jaynes tackles in her book Enough. We’d never say these things to a sister or friend, so why do we believe them about ourselves? We tell ourselves we’re unforgivable, that God doesn’t love us, or maybe that someone else is unforgivable. From that moment on, he’s been lying to us and we’ve been falling for the deception.įor some of us, we don’t even remember a time in life when we felt “good enough.” For as long as there have been mirrors, there have been women standing in front of them finding what they perceive as flaws. In Genesis 3, we find the first woman, Eve, and her encounter with the ultimate deceiver. It goes back to the Garden of Eden, really. Lies about who we are, who we aren’t, who God is, and who we are to one another. For all long as there have been women, we have believed lies.

Silencing the lies that steal your confidence