Never thought this Instagram post would reach more than 1 million people, but here we are… and we still get comments about it a year later. Your political views don’t matter.
Your feelings don’t matter. Your “truth” doesn’t matter.
Following these trends is poison and making you sick in spirit, soul, and body…
Christians are reading their Bibles. Christians are showing up on Sunday.
Christians are doing the small group, the fast, the reading plan that actually stuck.
You’re doing your best to do the hard, unglamorous work of walking with God in a culture that isn’t.
And you still rehearse the argument you’ll never get to have. Still can’t stop working.
Still carrying something heavy in your chest that no sermon has ever reached.
Here’s why: you can do every one of those things and still be discipled by something else.
Because seven ideas got past the Church’s filter. In fact, they are now trends.
Not because you are gullible, but because these trends showed up dressed as wisdom.
They came through your feed, your favorite podcast, your group chat, sometimes your pulpit. They sound like freedom, like self-care, like ambition, like grace.
Every one of them is poison, and every one of them has an author.
Bible Health has never been only about what’s on your plate.
There’s no protocol in this post. No ingredient list, no swap, no supplement.
These seven are about what you believe, who you forgive, what you chase, and whether you’re able to stop.
We’re writing about them because after more than two decades of teaching Biblical health, the pattern never changes. People rarely fail for lack of information.
They fail because a lie got installed upstream of every decision they make, and no protocol reaches upstream.
So we’re going to use a word most writers won’t touch. These aren’t neutral cultural preferences.
The 7 trends we’re addressing today are satanic.
They come from the enemy of your soul, they’re designed to separate you from God, and they’re working.
An Instagram caption can’t carry that conversation.
So here’s the long version…
1. Live By Your Own Truth
Satanic Trend: “You decide what’s right for you.”
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” — John 14:6
Warning: Truth isn’t subjective. Truth isn’t relative.
Truth is a Person, and He has a name.
This is the foundational lie, the one that makes the other six possible. Once you believe truth bends to preference, every other lie gets a hearing.
Your body becomes a matter of opinion. Sin becomes a matter of taste.
The Word becomes one voice among many, and usually the least convenient one.
Watch how it lands in the body.
A woman knows the drinking has become a problem, but her truth says she’s earned it after the week she’s had.
A man knows he’s neglecting his family, but his truth says he’s providing.
The knowing never actually goes away. It just gets overruled, over and over, until the gap between what you know and what you do becomes its own chronic stressor.
Your nervous system keeps score of that gap even when your conscience has stopped filing reports.
There’s a mercy hidden in this verse that people miss: If truth were subjective, you’d be responsible for generating it.
You’d have to be right about everything, forever, with no help. Jesus takes that weight off you.
He didn’t say He teaches the truth. He said He is the truth, which means you get to stop manufacturing it and start receiving it.
Sorting real truth from convincing counterfeits is the whole skill. We wrote the field guide here…
2. Cancel Culture
Satanic Trend: “Cancel them. Expose them. Pay them back.”
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” — Romans 12:21
Warning: We’re called to love and to overcome evil with good. Vengeance belongs to God, and He’s better at it than you are.
Notice what Paul assumes in that verse.
He assumes evil is coming at you.
He assumes you’ve been genuinely wronged.
He isn’t asking you to pretend it didn’t happen. He’s telling you the counterattack is where the enemy actually gets you, because a person consumed with repaying evil has already been overcome by it.
We’ve sat with people who filter their water, ditch their fragrance, and swap every plastic container in the kitchen while quietly rehearsing a case against someone for the twentieth year.
Bitterness isn’t only a spiritual problem.
Chronic resentment keeps the body parked in a stress state, and no supplement protocol outruns that.
There’s no detox for what only forgiveness can heal.
Ask yourself an honest question about the last person you wanted to see exposed.
Did you want them repentant, or did you want them ruined?
God wants them repentant. If your desire and His have parted ways, you’ve picked a side, and it isn’t His.
Forgiveness doesn’t mean the wrong was acceptable. It means you’re done carrying it in your body.
Bottom line: Cancel culture is vindictive. Culture intends harm.
And, thus, cancel culture is demonic.
Exposing darkness is Biblical, but intentionally trying to “cancel” somebody comes from the devil.
Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to be hurt…
3. Choosing Who You Help
Satanic Trend: “Only pour into people who pour into you.”
“And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.” — Luke 6:31
Warning: The Golden Rule has no eligibility requirements. Real love gives without expecting anything back.
The culture calls this protecting your peace.
Sometimes it genuinely is, and we’d never tell an abused person to keep walking back into the fire. But listen to how the language actually gets used.
Reciprocity becomes the entry fee for your kindness.
People get sorted into investments and liabilities.
Family members get quietly downgraded because they cost more than they return.
Jesus goes further than the Golden Rule in the same chapter.
Love your enemies, do good, lend expecting nothing in return, because that’s exactly how your Father treats the ungrateful and the evil, which is a category that included you before He got hold of you.
Here’s the part nobody mentions: transactional love is exhausting in a way generous love never is.
When every act of care is an investment, you’re tracking returns on all of it, and that ledger runs in the background of your mind all day.
Generosity closes the ledger.
It’s one of the few spiritual disciplines with an immediate nervous system payoff, which is why people who serve freely tend to sleep better than people who keep score.
We take a lot of heat for our family size. This is part of the answer…
“I’m grateful to be here, receiving encouragement, recipes, and whole-body transformation. Even after trying times, I trust you and Mama Z. The spiritual aspect completes the system: body, soul, and spirit.”
— Ellen D.
4. Indulge Yourself
Satanic Trend: “Life’s short, do whatever feels good.”
“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” — Luke 9:23
Warning: This is pure poison to your body, your soul, and your spirit. The cross calls us to deny ourselves daily, not to worship pleasure.
At twenty-two, Dr. Z was addicted, chain-smoking, drinking, and contemplating taking his own life. Every single thing he was doing to himself felt good in the moment it was happening.
That’s the entire mechanism. Pleasure is a terrible navigator because it only ever reports on the next ten minutes.
On March 16, 2003, he gave his life to Christ, and every addiction broke overnight. Not managed.
Gone. No withdrawals.
No detox.
We tell that story often, and the part people usually miss is that the freedom didn’t come from a better indulgence plan. It came from a Person who was worth denying himself for.
The word “daily” in that verse is doing heavy lifting. Jesus didn’t describe a one-time surrender at an altar.
He described a decision you make again on a normal afternoon when the pantry is calling and nobody’s watching.
That repetition is the point.
Self-denial practiced daily is how a body actually changes, and it’s why the culture fights so hard to convince you that denying yourself anything is a form of self-harm.
Look at what the indulgence gospel has produced. Sicker bodies, shorter attention, weaker marriages, and a generation that can’t tolerate a moment of discomfort.
That fruit tells you who planted the tree.
Half of what’s marketed to you as a treat isn’t even food. We broke down the worst offenders here…
5. Hustle Culture
Satanic Trend: “Only the strong survive. Grind harder.”
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” — 2 Corinthians 12:9
Warning: God calls us to rest, to keep the Sabbath, and to lean on His strength instead of manufacturing our own.
Paul asked God three times to remove his thorn.
God said no and gave him something better, which was power that only shows up in the place where Paul had run out.
Hustle culture teaches the exact opposite. It teaches that weakness is the enemy, that rest is what you earn after the work is finished, and that the work is never finished.
God built rest into creation before sin ever entered the world. Sabbath wasn’t given because we’re broken.
It was given because we’re human, and the command to rest one day in seven came with no productivity clause attached.
Chronic sleep debt and unrelenting stress are two of the most reliable ways to wreck human health, and neither one is a secret.
Blood sugar goes sideways, hormones follow, and the immune system gets sloppy.
Most people in that state don’t need another biohacking stack. They need to obey a command God already gave them, one they’ve been treating as optional for years.
The tell is simple. If you can’t stop, you’re not building something.
Something is building you, and it isn’t God.
When the mind won’t stop spinning, this is where to start...
“Thank you so much for everything you all do, and especially today for the Scriptures. I really needed those today.”
— Mary G.
6. Pride Culture
Satanic Trend: “Be proud. Elevate yourself. Promote you.”
“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” — James 4:6
Warning: Pride destroys. Read that verse again and notice who’s doing the opposing.
Most people brace for consequences to arrive from circumstances.
James says something far more serious: God Himself takes up a position against the proud.
Every hard providence, every closed door, every humbling you didn’t ask for might be the mercy of a God trying to get you into the only posture where He can hand you grace.
Pride wears clothes you wouldn’t expect in health circles.
It’s the refusal to see a doctor because you’ve decided you can figure it out.
It’s the certainty that your protocol is the right one and everyone else has been deceived.
It’s contempt for people who haven’t done the reading you’ve done.
We’ve watched pride do more damage in the natural health world than seed oils ever have, because pride can’t be repented of until it’s been named, and it’s exceptionally good at hiding behind discipline.
Humility isn’t thinking poorly of yourself.
It’s an accurate assessment of who made you, who sustains you, and who gets the credit.
That’s not a smaller life. It’s a lighter one.
Pride and poverty mentality are cousins. Both are about who you think is in charge of your provision….
7. Everything in Moderation
Satanic Trend: “Just a little bit of it is fine. Pick your poison.”
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you… You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” — 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
“Abstain from every form of evil.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:22
Warning: Your body is a temple. Some things belong in the sometimes category, and some things belong in the never category.
Moderation is a good word that’s been drafted into service as an excuse. Nobody applies it consistently.
You’d never tell a recovering alcoholic to have one drink in moderation, or advise a man to cheat on his wife in moderation.
We reserve the word for the specific poisons we’ve decided to keep.
Ouch, right?!
We know it hurts to hear, but trust us, it’s true. If you catch onto this one thing, it will change your life forever…
Paul’s argument in Corinthians isn’t about willpower. It’s about ownership.
You’re not your own, which means the question was never whether you can handle a little of something. The question is whether the Owner of the building wants it in there.
Put another way:
“‘All things are lawful,’ but not all things are helpful.” — 1 Corinthians 10:23
And Christians are called to focus on the latter.
A little of something has never stayed little. That’s the entire warning of the leaven.
“Everything in moderation” is a lie from the pit of hell, and building proper guardrails is essential to abundant living…
Don’t Forget the Leaven
“A little leaven leavens the whole lump.” — Galatians 5:9
Paul wasn’t writing about baking. He was writing to a church that had let one small distortion of the gospel into the room and then acted surprised when the whole thing changed flavor.
That’s how all seven of these satanic trends work.
Nobody wakes up and decides to build their life on their own truth. They make one small allowance, once, in a moment when obedience felt expensive.
The trend doesn’t announce itself. It gets in through a caption you agreed with, a boundary you set for the wrong reason, a Sunday you skipped because you’d earned the rest.
Your relationships, your peace of mind, your physical health are not separate departments, and they aren’t complicated. They run on the same power supply.
Know God’s Word and obey it. That’s the whole system.
Health shouldn’t be complicated. Amen?
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A Prayer for You. 🙏
Heavenly Father, thank You that Your Word helps me recognize the enemy’s designs, so I never have to walk through this world unaware.
Give me discernment to recognize every lie that competes with Your Word, and renew my mind so I am shaped by Your truth more than by culture, fear, comfort or popular opinion.
Give me courage to obey You when obedience costs me something, and wisdom to know which next step You are asking me to take.
Father, show me how to guard my heart, strengthen my family, and follow Jesus faithfully in every area of my life.
Teach me to love what is good, hold fast to what is true, and walk in the abundant life You designed for me.
Amen.
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Very interesting! Much of this reminds me of the verse, "And everyone did what was right in their eyes." I found it in Judges. It was true then, and it is true now. Didn't work out too well for them well, did it..... 🤪 Definitely will be reading more of your articles. I am very intrigued to hear more.
I love how bold you were in this article!