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Let me suggest for you one practice that is sustainable and very fruitful: the daily declaration, or proclamation, of essential truths. Returning to Psalm 91, notice the importance of the second verse:

Those who live in the shelter of the Most High
will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
This I declare about the LORD:
He alone is my refuge, my place of safety;
he is my God, and I trust him. (NLT, emphasis added)

“This I declare.” God is making a proclamation, and a very important one.

Declarations are both reminders to the soul and acts of defiance against the enemy’s constant lies. Of this verse Spurgeon wrote, “To take up a general truth and make it our own by personal faith is the highest wisdom ... to say he is my refuge, is the essence of consolation.”

What I’m strongly suggesting is this: Before you head out the door into your day, after your morning prayers, take a few more moments to declare out loud,

God is my Father.
I am his son (or daughter). 
I am loved.
I am chosen.
God is my refuge.

And so on.

This counters the narrative assaults of The World, the cunning lies of our enemy, and it is also how we get out of the madness of allowing our feelings to dictate what is true and false for us. The saints and mystics through the ages held this to be an essential part of our fight for refuge.

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