Truth

Truth gives us the power to believe in ourselves.  Truth gives us the power of good over evil.  Truth radiates with the light of positivity.

"Truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come; and whatsoever is more or less than this is the spirit of that wicked one who was a liar from the beginning.  The spirit of truth is of God...He that keepeth His commandments receiveth truth and light, until he is glorified in truth and knoweth all things...intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be.  All truth is independent in that sphere in which God has placed it, to act for itself, as all intelligence also; otherwise there is no existence.  The glory of God is intelligence, or in other words, light and truth.  Light and truth forsake that evil one."  -Doctrine & Covenants 93:24-37

Satan is that wicked, evil one.  The very definition of Satan is "one who lies in wait."  He is the opposite or the antipathist of truth.  Brigham Young said, "Satan is capable of counterfeiting every true principle."  Satan is the master of lies--it is his essence.  He will create a false universe to fit any desire.  All darkness and negativity come from him.  Satan wants to deceive us about truth and light and God and who we really are.  Satan will do everything he can to convince us to not believe in ourselves, or in what God will do for us.  He seeks to destroy us, and he knows it can begin with a simple thought--any negative thought.  It is through our sense of vision that Satan seeks to take control of our thoughts. 

Satan is the great destroyer of our peace.  One of his greatest tools is distraction.  He wants us to be distracted from God and what our true purpose in this life is--from seeking light and truth and living in righteousness.  

But know this.  EVERY mortal is greater than Satan.

And why?  Because we have the power to choose.  We can choose to be miserable, if in our thoughts we believe all (or any) of Satan's lies about us.  Or we can choose to cast out his lies and negativity and seek for light and truth and move ourselves, with the power of the free agency that God has endowed us with, into a positive frequency.

Our free agency is the very thing the whole war in heaven was about.  It continues now.  Everywhere you see examples of people seeking for ultimate power and to take away the rights and choices of others.   And while there may be some in mortality who actually do succeed in taking away that precious gift, they can never take away our power to choose our attitude and our response to any set of circumstances.  Victor L. Frankl called it "the last of human freedom."

"One of the most powerful lessons to come out of the incredibly vicious experiences in the concentration camps of World War II was from the quiet heroes who exercised the one human freedom of which they could not be deprived—their capacity to choose the way they responded to the wickedness of their persecutors. That choice for some of them was to bring comfort to others, often giving away their last small piece of bread, and jeopardizing their own lives in so doing. This inner decision permitted those few who made it to retain their human dignity in foul circumstances. The few who managed to rise above their degradation and suffering by exercising their right to choose their attitude were proof enough that “man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate” (see Victor L. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, 3rd ed., New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984, p. 76)."   As quote by Elder Marion D. Hanks

"We are free to choose liberty and eternal life...or captivity and death...for he seeketh that all...might be miserable like unto himself."  2 Nephi 2:27

The closer we draw to God, the harder Satan is going to work on us.  If he can't get to us directly, he will get to us through others.  Even when he knows we are not backing down, he will find ways to attack us and our integrity and everything good about us.  He wants to hurt us.  Satan increasingly tries to overcome the Saints with despair, despondency, discouragement and depression.  All negative.  All on a frequency we can get off of by changing to a positive one.

C. S. Lewis said that "Satan sends errors in pairs of opposites to encourage us to spend time thinking which is worse--drawing us into the other.  Keep your eyes on your goal and go straight through between both errors."

This battle will rage until mortality is over.  Do not surrender or retreat!  Not even in a moment when you think you cannot do it.  Hold your ground!  Close ranks!  Maintain the fort!  Satan will retreat in the face of great courage.  It is the fear that he generates in which he hopes to defeat us.  Remember when he confronted Moses and told Moses to worship him?  And Moses said,  "Who art thou? For behold, I am a son of God, in the similitude of his Only Begotten; and where is thy glory, that I should worship thee?"  And Satan ranted and raged and "Moses began to fear exceedingly; and as he began to fear, he saw the bitterness of hell.  Nevertheless, calling upon God, he received strength, and he commanded, saying: 'Depart from me, Satan, for this one God only will I worship, which is the God of glory."  And Satan did depart, because he had no choice, but not without making a big scene.   Moses 1: 12-22

When we resist evil, Satan will flee.

And we don't have to do it alone.  As Moses did, we call upon God and His Son Jesus Christ, and he gives us strength and the ability to do it.

And while we may choose good and seek to do right, beware.  Satan will sneak around to the back door, and he will flatter us that we are very righteous as we feed off the faults of others.   Pride is Satan's tool.  Satan doesn't care if we think good about ourselves or bad about ourselves, as long as we are only thinking of ourselves.  Both are forms of pride.  Part of pride is selfishness, and selfishness is part of that natural man that we need to work at casting off.  And selfishness generates negativity about ourselves and everyone and everything.

Tuning into that positive frequency and living God's laws [or the law of attraction--it's the same], we live a life of gratitude, being kind to others in thought and deed, blessing and praising everyone and everything, utilizing the power of love, creating our day with cheerfulness and joy and all good things---this is TRUTH!

And truth conquers!  No matter our circumstances.