August 29, 2025

Controlling the Narrative

There’s a reason leftists and progressives want to control the narrative. Language shapes culture. Words influence thinking, thinking forms beliefs, beliefs create actions, and shape the culture. Pretty simple. 

• Murder is bad; call it “abortion.” 

• Riots are bad; call them “mostly peaceful” protests. 

• Reverse racism is bad; call it “DEI - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”. 

• Taking people’s hard-earned money is bad; call it “democratic socialism.” 

• Defunding the police is bad (and stupid); call it “reallocating funds.”

You get the point. Perhaps you’ve seen clips of 20 or 30 liberal newscasters all using the exact same language to describe events or policies. The talking points are obviously disseminated from party leaders and talking heads to ensure they are using the same language. This is to shape the thinking and culture of America. The goal of censorship is to control and shape the narrative, thereby influencing and controlling the culture. It’s all by design. 

Leftists and progressives know that what people believe to be true shapes and controls them, whether it is true or not. In other words, people are not controlled by truth – they’re controlled by what we believe to be true!

The Scriptures confirm this. Consider the verse from Proverbs 23:7, which tells us that “as a person thinks within himself, so is he." Some translations say that as a person thinks in his “heart,” so is he. The Hebrew word is nephesh, the word for “soul” - the mind, emotions, and will. As your soul thinks, so are you.(1)

There’s greater depth to this verse in Proverbs, however. The meaning of the Hebrew word translated “think” gives added insight into what Holy Spirit was saying regarding the soul’s operation. The word is shaar, which literally means “to split or open.”(2) It refers to “a place of access” or “an entranceway.” It is the word in Scripture for a doorkeeper or gatekeeper. This verse is referring not so much to the actual “thoughts” of one’s mind, but to what the mind has been opened up to that creates the thoughts. Whatever the door or gate of a person’s soul has been opened to, and what has gained access to their soul, will shape and control them, determining their decisions and actions. 

Snakes, Sweat Drops, and Blisters

The following examples illustrate the profound impact of this on a person’s behavior. An article in Reader’s Digest said,

“Gut feelings can occur without a person being consciously aware of them. For example, when people who fear snakes are shown a picture of a snake, sensors on their skin will detect sweat, a sign of anxiety, even though the people say they do not feel fear. The sweat shows up even when a picture is presented so rapidly that the subject has no conscious awareness of seeing it.”(3)

Amazing. The door of the person’s soul had been opened to a fear of snakes. The subconscious mind picked up the image of the snake and responded with a measurable response of fear.

Another example is found in the field of hypnosis (which I don’t believe is wise to participate in). It’s been proven that, under hypnosis, a person’s subconscious beliefs clearly trump reality. One hypnotist told his subject to hold out her hand, then announced that he was going to put a hot coal in it. Instead, he placed an ice cube there. Despite reality, she immediately flinched and dropped the ice cube... and a blister formed on her hand!(4)

What?!

How can that be? The subconscious mind believed the hypnotist’s words to be true. Therefore, it went to work, initiating the body’s process of dealing with a burn. It pulled the file that associated holding a hot coal with pain and, working on autopilot, sent impulses throughout the body that caused a blister. What’s believed in the mind doesn’t have to be true to control us; it merely has to be believed. 

Norman Vincent Peale recounts the following:

“Once, walking through the twisted little streets of Kowloon in Hong Kong, I came upon a tattoo studio. In the window were displayed samples of the tattoos available. On the chest and arms, you could have tattooed an anchor, or flag, or mermaid, or whatever. But what struck me with force were three words that could be tattooed on one’s flesh: ‘Born to lose.’

“I entered the shop in astonishment and, pointing to those words, asked the artist, ‘Does anyone really have that terrible phrase tattooed on his body?’ 

“He replied, ‘Yes, sometimes.’

“‘But,’ I said, ‘I just can’t believe that anyone in his right mind would do that.’ 

“The Chinese man simply tapped his forehead and said, in broken English, ‘Before tattoo on body, tattoo on mind.’”(5)

Educators in America have tattooed on the minds of a generation that there is no God. If there is no God or Creator, then there is no purpose, destiny, or design; all is by accident and happenstance. This allows one to believe their body is a mistake: they have the body of a male, when they’re actually a female trapped in the wrong body. Or vice versa. The answer? Go to work changing it: take pills to kill the male parts. Better yet, cut them off.

We have tattooed onto their minds that fulfillment can be found in drugs, alcohol, and other temporal pleasures. 

• That marriage doesn’t have to be between a man and woman; all that matters is love.

• That marriage isn’t really necessary at all; just live together until the excitement ends, then find another mate. 

• That children are a nuisance, an inconvenience, and unnecessary interruptions in one’s career.

• That sin and Satan are fun, while God and righteousness are boring. 

• That absolute truth doesn’t exist; all is relative and to be determined by ever-changing standards. And many more lies.

A godless culture is a hopeless culture, a mooring-less and anchor-less society blown about by human philosophies and ideas, everyone doing what is right in their own eyes (Judges 17:6, 21:25). 

Revival will change this, removing the tattoos. Reformation will preserve the change. God’s power is strong enough to transform the minds and hearts of a generation. He will enter the gates of their minds, remove deception, and invade their souls with His truth. He will write new laws in their hearts and minds, His laws. And He will capture them with His perfect love and passionate heart. Sixty years of deviant planning and hard work by satan’s kingdom will be overthrown through one powerful revival. 

Pray with me:

Father, we humans get things all messed up when we try to live life without You. We call good evil and evil good. Eventually, we abandon even common sense and embrace insanity. You rightly referenced those who say You don’t exist as fools.

Here in America, we removed You from our education system, filling our textbooks and lectures with hell, destruction, hopelessness, and purposeless living. Please forgive us for this heinous evil.

Come now and heal our land. Begin with the young generation of Americans, doing what You promised: send the greatest awakening in history and begin with the youth. They are hungry, they are searching, and You are the answer. Demolish the arguments of humanism, secularism, and atheism. Open the eyes of this generation to the reality of who You are and who You have created them to be. Deliver them from demons, deception, confusion, and spiritual darkness. Let the power of Your love overwhelm them! All of this we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Our decree:

We decree that the tattoos of deception and darkness are being removed from the minds of our young generation in America and around the world.

Portions of today’s post were adapted from my book Becoming Who You Are, published by Baker Publishing Group.

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1. James Strong, The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1990), ref. no. 5315.

2. Ibid., ref. no. 8176.

3. Reader’s Digest (January 1996), p. 50.

4. Linda-Ann Stewart, “Myth Conceptions About Hypnosis,” Cedarfire (5/5/99), www.cedarfire.com.

5. Norman Vincent Peale,  Power of the Plus Factor (old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1987), adapted.