{"id":2104,"date":"2011-11-06T20:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T00:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2011-11-06T23:11:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T03:11:48","slug":"protecting-your-spirit-from-identity-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/protecting-your-spirit-from-identity-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting your spirit from Identity Theft&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I think that sometimes we forget who we are.\u00a0<\/strong>When I get a migraine, sometimes I say and do things I would otherwise not do.\u00a0Afterward, I say to my wife, \u201cMan \u2013 I really was not myself. I am not sure who I was, but I wasn\u2019t myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>You hear people in sports<\/strong> say this sometimes.\u00a0They have a bad showing on the field and they say, \u201cWe let ourselves down today by playing poorly. We forgot who we were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>You hear Christians<\/strong> say this sometimes. &#8220;I forgot myself and I behaved poorly.&#8221;\u00a0I spoke to a young woman once who, during her post-teen years, had done things she was very ashamed of.\u00a0She had been raised in a Christ-honoring environment,\u00a0saved \u2014 opened her own heart to receive Christ \u2014 years earlier.\u00a0But along the way, she let herself drift from who she had become in Christ.\u00a0She said to me, \u201cI kind of forgot who I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I believe that one of the most damaging tactics the enemy \u2013 Satan \u2013 has is to cause you to forget what Christ has done in your life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This podcast reveals some of Satan&#8217;s tactics and offers steps to avoiding the loss of our realization of our identity in Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1244\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2104-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2011\/20111106TheDistractionofDiscouragement.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2011\/20111106TheDistractionofDiscouragement.mp3\">http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2011\/20111106TheDistractionofDiscouragement.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2011\/20111106TheDistractionofDiscouragement.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=2104-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2011\/20111106TheDistractionofDiscouragement.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20111106TheDistractionofDiscouragement.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that sometimes we forget who we are.\u00a0When I get a migraine, sometimes I say and do things I would otherwise not do.\u00a0Afterward, I say to my wife, \u201cMan \u2013 I really was not myself. 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