Once the devil has planted the beachhead of perversion in your life and invaded you with 24-7 iAccess, his next step is thought control. This post is sponsored by the words Codes and Propaganda, because you must learn how to decode and expose the addict lies ingrained within your mind. The enemy has been broadcasting his encoded propaganda for so long, you no longer hear the loudspeakers blaring inside your own head. You’ve been programmed to mindlessly obey the devil’s constant commands and relapse for the umpteenth time—and yet you remain clueless to your own brainwashing.

That’s Propaganda, as in the ceaseless communication of ideology, propagated especially by the Nazis and the Communists during WWII. Posters, books, newspapers, movies, radio shows, artwork, music, dramas, sports, clubs, the Olympics, Boy Scouts, churches, sermons—if it moved and talked in some fashion, it was used for propaganda. In their wildest dreams, however, neither Hitler nor Stalin could have imagined the omnipresent propaganda machine run by today’s modern media. To hear lies endlessly repeated 24-7, no matter how outrageous the deception, is to believe them—because these lies become encoded into our very neurons as truth. And to believe is to obey. Remember, Satan is the Prince of the Power of the Air (read Media and Cyberspace), so the end goal of all this encoded propaganda is the literal control of your brain and mine. His goal is control!

Code Talkers

Chester Nez served his country faithfully during WWII fighting with the Marines against the Japanese Army in the Pacific. As a Navajo Indian, however, Mr. Nez was one of a select few who were trained as living code-keepers in order to encode and decrypt crucial military intelligence in the heat of battle. In his book Code Talker, Mr. Nez tells the story of his unlikely journey from the poverty of a reservation to one day receiving the Congressional Gold Medal from the President himself. Given the discrimination and abuse Mr. Nez had experienced as a child (thanks to this same government), not to mention the holocaust endured by his nation and so many other Native American tribes, his courageous service in defense of the United States is all the more remarkable.

Breaking enemy codes and keeping the enemy from discovering your own has long been a crucial point of warfare, a constant unseen battle as vital as the physical fighting. During WWII, combatants were routinely breaking each other’s codes and ciphers—the means of sending/receiving messages left much to be desired. Morse code was primitive, telegraphs could be tapped, and radios triangulated. Plus, these devices rarely worked on the battlefield when needed most. Back then, phones needed actual phone lines that were always being blown to smithereens (along with the hapless soldiers who laid down the lines). If you sent a message, and the enemy successfully decrypted the information, they could then use that same information against you to deadly effect. And yet sending/receiving a message, even for something as simple as coordinates for an artillery strike, was often literally a matter of life and death.

Enter the Navajo Code Talkers. The Navajo code was simple and completely unbreakable. Outside the Navajo nation, only a handful of people could speak Navajo, and because it was such a complex language to learn, the Japanese never stood a chance. Skeptical at first (not to mention racist), the Marine commanders quickly learned the advantages of having completely secure, living and breathing codebreakers on their frontlines. Navajo code talkers could encode and decode messages immediately—this instant transmission of crucial information changed the course of many a firefight and battle and saved countless American lives. By the end of the war, some 400 Navajos served their adopted country as code talkers, 13 of whom paid the ultimate price, being killed in action. Watch the movie Windtalkers for a reasonably accurate depiction of their amazing story.

In Basic Training! Stage 3 Week 10, using the backdrop of WWII code-breaking and propaganda, I discuss the addictive tendency toward negative self-talk and the hidden excuses we repeatedly use to justify our ritualistic relapses. I contrast these excuses with the Scriptural imperative to take every thought captive, because a healthy mental self-awareness is critical for any addict in recovery. I then get down to brass tacks and identify the specific excuses we use to first talk ourselves into a relapse, and then the specific excuses we use to talk our way out of the mess created by yet another relapse. You can break the habit of habitual excuses by mentally hearing them, writing them down, and then finally confessing them to your BOB/BOS group—exposing excuses kills them. I conclude with a warning about the biggest excuse of them all (Hopelessness), and I illustrate the negative impact of hopelessness and the positive power of faith.

Your Brother in the Battle,

Timothy

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Excerpt taken from Pureheart Ministry’s Basic Training! Stage 2: Bootcamp

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