What voices influence your choices?

Do you hear voices? If we’re honest, we’ll admit we all hear voices—those conflicting inner voices inside our heads. They whisper or SHOUT. And, even have names.

Sometimes they sound like your mom or dad repeating messages of Encouragement or Ridicule. Or maybe scripture you had to memorize speaks Wisdom. Culture booms so loud in our minds making its messages impossible to ignore. Conscience usually speaks with a still small voice.

Some voices pound you down—Regret, Defeat, Shame, Self-Pity, Scorn, and Guilt. Others puff you up—Pride, Ego, Self. Or those like Courage, Compassion, Grace, Sacrifice, and Forgiveness can build character.

Sometimes we’ll hear the sounds of Joy, Peace, Hope, and Love in special songs.

Click here to catch these uplifting lyrics of: Matthew West’s Hello, My Name Is and Grace Wins, Lauren Daigle’s You Say, Zach Williams’s Fear is a Liar, and Francesca Battistelli’s The Breakup Song.

At other times, voices scream horrendous thoughts that you’d never confess to another soul. Their messages can spawn deplorable feelings about yourself. Fear, Rebellion, Hatred, Bitterness occasionally launch full-frontal assaults. Or perhaps you’re deluged with thoughts of Defeat, Despair, and Disgrace that send you deep into depression. Or your mind floods with the foul stench of Failure. “You’re a loser. You’ll never amount to anything.”

The father of lies wants to deceive you, and you need to dispatch misguided voices ASAP. Silence their clamor, so you can hear the sweet sentiments from the Spirit. Wouldn’t you prefer to cultivate and embrace Patience, Kindness, Gentleness, and Self-Control? With the Holy Spirit’s help, you can do it!

Consider Dreams in the Distance an introduction to The Voices that pummel and inspire. View the thoughts of the characters from a new perspective, as they discover who they are and whom they serve—the father of lies or our Father in heaven.