Luke 8:33<\/span><\/a>). On this occasion, Satan chose to indwell the body of a pre-curse serpent. \u201cAn immaterial spirit must be invisible; and therefore he must embody himself in some way or other before he can be seen. That Satan has power to enter into living bodies is clear, for he did so upon a very large scale with regard to men in the days of Christ\u2026(Spurgeon)<\/p>\nSatan will often attack a chain at its weakest link, so he gets at Adam by tempting Eve. The stronger ones in a \u201cchain\u201d must expect an attack against weaker links and support them against those attacks. Satan\u2019s first attack was leveled against the Word of God. If he could make Eve confused about what God said, or to doubt what God said, then his battle was partially won. From the beginning, Satan has tried to undermine God\u2019s people by undermining God\u2019s Word. He can undermine just as effectively by getting us to\u00a0neglect\u00a0God\u2019s Word as by getting us to doubt it.\u00a0 <\/span>(Guzik)<\/p>\nWhen Satan attacks we are not to have a discussion with him about it, but rather say, \u201cThe Lord rebuke you\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>He is cunning and crafty in his speech and thoughts. When the Holy Spirit gives you discernment about such an attack then it is prudent to not have a discussion about it but rather rebuke it immediately. Why is it when we hear and know what God says about certain sins and temptations to avoid, that we want to get close enough to it to touch it and even eat of it? All of these will be exploited by Satan for sure, and only those grounded in His Word and that have a desire to wholly honor and glorify Him will be able, through the leading and strengthening of the Holy Spirit, to discern it and turn away from it.\u00a0 <\/span>Satan\u2019s attacks come at us through our minds. It is here where the battle begins. Fiery darts shot singly or in multiples are flung at us from every possible angle. They can come in the form of lust, greed, pride, etc\u2026 They can be subtle or obvious. They can come from within our minds or planted there by another person being used by Satan. This is why we must always be on guard. Having an overwhelming desire for God\u2019s Word and feeding upon it with an equally deep desire to honor and glorify Jesus Christ in all we think, say, and do, and with a heart seeking to be led by the Holy Spirit, and with ears open to the quiet whispers of leading, it is then we will have the discernment to see all of the cunning and crafty attacks of Satan in our lives. It is good for us to have a Christian community with other believers, for where we might be deaf and blind they hear and see the fiery darts of temptation and strengthen us in our resolve to fight it off.\u00a0 <\/span>No one is immune to these attacks, and for certain no one in their own power is able to stand against them.\u00a0 <\/span>It is only through the indwelling Holy Spirit and our openness to listen and obey that we are able to stop the attacks. Oh, that we would have hearts and minds like David when he said;\u00a0 <\/span>thoughts: \u201cExamine me, O God, and know my mind; test me, and discover my thoughts. Don’t let me follow evil ways, but lead me in the\u00a0everlasting way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Genesis 3:2\u00a0 He said to the woman, \u201cDid God actually say, \u2018You shall not eat of any tree in the garden\u2019?\u201d And the woman said to the serpent, \u201cWe may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, You shall not eat of the fruit of the … Continue reading “35.j. “So that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[426,2910,2916,795,1785,2267,3843,2691,2798,3350,15562,502,2,3842,15295,727,1516,76,4307,3346,15963,2030,187,84,4795,379,133,15962,619,15959,362,3329,417,15961,5687,2287,1419,297,2667,147,6860,170,6122],"class_list":["post-146923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-astray","tag-beginning","tag-commanded","tag-cunning","tag-delight","tag-desired","tag-desires","tag-devil","tag-die","tag-eat","tag-eve","tag-eyes","tag-faith","tag-father-of-lies","tag-forgieness","tag-forgotten","tag-garden","tag-god","tag-ignorant","tag-knowing","tag-knowledge-of-good-and-evil","tag-lies","tag-light","tag-mercy","tag-murderer","tag-naked","tag-open","tag-owtwitted","tag-power","tag-pure-devotion","tag-receive","tag-sanctified","tag-satan","tag-serpent-deceived","tag-sincere","tag-sins","tag-thoughts","tag-touch","tag-tree","tag-truth","tag-turn-from-darkness","tag-wise","tag-woman"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146985,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146923\/revisions\/146985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}