Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, August 7th.

Satan is a master of warfare, so believers in Jesus need to take him seriously.

Today's podcast briefs us on the scriptural strategy for resisting the devil.

Do you know how to resist Satan when he tempts you? If you don't know how to resist him,

you're going to spend your life like a spiritual roller coaster up today and down tomorrow,

one defeat after the other until you learn how to resist the devil. Satan is the personal

enemy of every single one of God's children.

You can marry Satan's objectives down to one simple thing, and that is destruction.

Satan has one thing in mind primarily, to destroy your body, your soul, and your spirit.

And if he can't kill you, he'll do his best to harass you till

erects and ruins your testimony or your witness for Christ and renders you absolutely of no use

and no value to God. When you look at the way he operates, he operates in three areas primarily.

And what are those three areas? He operates, first of all, in the mind. For example, how does Satan work in a person?

Here's what he does. Now, watch this. He injects into your mind his thoughts. Now, listen, if Jesus Christ is your Savior, and Christ is your life, which the Bible says he is, and the Holy Spirit is living within you, Jesus isn't coming up with a lie.

The Holy Spirit isn't coming up with error and gossip and criticism and all the rest.

That is strictly from the devil.

It doesn't make indifference who it comes through.

It is ultimately from Satan.

Maybe an evil thought, maybe an unkind thought, maybe a lustful thought, greedy thought, whatever it might be, but he injects it in your mind.

At that moment, you have the privilege of accepting it or rejecting it.

So the mind, the second area in which he works in is our conscience.

Now, here's what he does.

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