“Forgetta ‘bout it!”: How to Battle Against the Enemy

“You have to make a choice. Are you going to believe the enemy or are you going to believe God?”

Below is a snippet of a conversation with Wendy Farr, a 75-year-old woman who shares how she’s learned to overcome rejection, embrace her identity in Christ, and believe the truth of God’s word. If you prefer listening, you can listen to the full conversation on Apple, Spotify or watch on YouTube.

Katharine: What’s the most important lesson the Lord has taught you in your 75 years of life?

Wendy: The biggest thing I think for me is to know and understand and believe that I am worthy of His love. And with that root of rejection that I have grown up with and had in my life, I didn't always think that. I didn't think I was enough. I didn't think I could ever be enough.

I was, you know, that was a thing, that when you're rejected, you feel like you're just not good enough. But God says over and over and over that I am. And He says, ‘I chose you. I didn't reject you. I chose you and I love you and you are worthy.’ And, you know, I also know that it wasn't because I was good or you know, it wasn't anything that I did or didn't do. It was because when I accepted Jesus, He said, I get everything from Him and I am Him, we're united. So because He's worthy, when God looks at me, He says, I'm worthy too.

And I think that the challenge is for me to say those words, I am worthy to the Lord, but to believe them, to walk in them, to really just, I always say, now eat those words and just take them in and believe it because when you really believe it, your thoughts are gonna tell you, yeah, whatever the enemy is saying to me, I'm telling you that God says He loves me and I'm worthy. So I'm going with God. I'm going with Him.

Katharine: Yeah, I love that. You bring up so many good points, you know, just it's not about us, it's about God and His love. Like it's not about what we do. There's a quote, I think it was by like Martin Luther who said “God doesn't love us because we are of worth, we are of worth because God loves us.”

But in working through that rejection wound, have there been tools that you’ve used or what has that process looked like?

Wendy: The Word of God tells us who we are in Christ. And so we have to read the Word of God. We've got to know what the Word says because He's telling us in the Word who we are. So whatever the lie is that we might have believed growing up, I mean, just many people, including myself, have this from childhood, this thing, you believe lies and we have wrong thinking about things, but this is what the enemy does. He wants us to believe lies and anything that God says, he wants to say the opposite. So I think you have to learn who you are in Christ and then you have to recognize what the lies are.

So you got to make a choice. Are you going to believe the enemy or are you going to believe God? And believing God is a decision we make, you know, because our thoughts might go another way or our feelings for sure might go another way. But we can't regard our feelings necessarily. We have to remember when we're thinking, is this from God? Is this how God feels about me? Did He say I was chosen? Yeah, He did. Did the enemy say you're rejected? Yeah, he did. Well, which one am I going to believe? I'm going with God. He says, I'm chosen and I'm worthy. And so I think that, you have to know the word of God and then you have to believe it for yourself.

Katharine: That's so good. And that word choice, right? Like it's a choice that we get to make to believe. And that's such an empowering thing because we do have that role to play in choosing what we're believing.

Wendy: Yeah, it's such a wonderful revelation when you really get that, you really see, you know, and sometimes it takes a while to really get it because we're so used to not getting it, we're so used to not hearing the truth, so we have to speak the truth over ourselves, declare the truth over yourself. You know, sometimes, I mean, I ask God just, Lord, can you just like, let me just hear your voice saying, okay, that's not me. I have this conversation because I'm saying, I want to hear your voice, God. I want to hear what you say about me. And we have to listen and we have to believe. But, first you have to know who God says you are. You have to know that truth so you can battle with the enemy when he tries to tell you lies.

And I've learned the Word more and more. I've learned to apply the Word more and more and to believe it, to trust it because I know when I do, I have peace. I don't have peace when I listen to the enemy. I feel anxious or worried or depressed or say, well, I can't, forget about it. I can't do this. But the opposite is what God says is, yes, you can, because I've made you that way. You are whatever you're trying to do. And so I like to go with the feeling peaceful and feeling empowered. It's empowering to know who we are as Christ.

Katharine: Yeah, that's so good. But it is a process, right? It's a continual process. You're always having to kind of keep yourself there, stay in the Word, stay with the truth, right? Because it is a process.

Wendy: It is, and in many of these groups that I've been doing with women in ministry over the years, a lot of women are like my age or way over 50 or something like this, and they're still struggling with this very thing, replacing the lies with the truth of God. But if you don't know what the lie is you're believing, you're not even aware. You have to identify what is the lie I'm believing, because if it's opposite from what God says, then I got to get over on God's side here.

So it is a lifetime process and sometimes it just takes an encounter with God for Him to reveal truth to us that shows us, wait, wow, I was going down the wrong road there. I was not thinking clearly on that one. The enemy is out to steal, kill and destroy everything in our lives that God wants to do. So every chance you get, you need to stop him and say, no, get out. I am believing what God says about me and that is this, whatever your situation is, this is who I am in Christ and I'm going to believe in it and walk it out.

But that rejection did make me feel insecure many times or not worthy, not feeling like, I can't do this. I had all these ideas and things I want to do, but I didn't always feel like I could do it. So the thing, I think He set me free from that rejection and that mindset of, know, that I'm not good enough, that I'm not able to do this and what are you thinking, you know, as the enemy would say, ‘What, you, you, you know, you're going to do this, you?’ And I would say, ‘Yes, I am going to do this. Yes. So get out of here. Forgetta ‘bout it. Forgetta ‘bout it.’ I tell the enemy that all the time.

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Thank you for being here,

Katharine

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