When The Enemy Gets in Your Head

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What is really happening when anger, discouragement, anxiety, or apathy suddenly takes over?

In this raw solo episode, Jerrad processes his own battle with comparison and insecurity after watching other successful men in ministry. What initially felt like simple discouragement revealed something much deeper: an old wound had been touched, and the enemy was using it to whisper familiar lies.

Jerrad also shares a surprising example from UFC fighters Sean Strickland and Dustin Poirier that demonstrates what can happen when a man has the courage to stop numbing and ask, “Why am I actually feeling this?”

Whether your emotions come out through anger and impatience or disappear inward through silence, withdrawal, and apathy, they may be pointing toward a wound that needs attention.

You’ll learn how to:

• Recognize emotions as warning lights on the dashboard of your soul
• Identify the wound underneath your reaction
• Notice the lies being whispered in moments of pain
• Stop using anger, alcohol, pornography, entertainment, work, or your phone to numb
• Slow down and invite the Holy Spirit to reveal what is really happening
• Replace the enemy’s lies with the truth of God’s Word

Before you react, withdraw, or numb yourself, pause and ask:

Where is the wound?
What is the lie I’m believing?
God, what truth do You want to speak over me?

Mature men are not men who never experience strong emotions. They are men who learn to recognize what they are feeling, bring it honestly before God, and allow His truth to lead them.

Scriptures Mentioned

John 8:44
Psalm 139:23–24
Matthew 6:25–34
Romans 8:28