Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, May 17.

To gain an advantage on us, Satan attempts to blend in with the surroundings.

Today's podcast helps you uncover his hiding places with a close look at the enemy.

If you were a general in the army and you were going to war against another nation,

one thing you would do very carefully. You would study the life of the opposing general.

You would learn everything you possibly could about him. You know all about his birth.

You know all about his background, all about his childhood, where he was educated.

When he got into the military, what kind of accomplishments that he had made.

You'd study everything about him because what you would be trying to do is to find out

how does this man think? What motivates him? What causes him to react?

What gets him angry? Is he cool headed? Is he the kind of person who responds quickly?

Does he delay in his decision? You'd learn everything you possibly could because you see oftentimes

it is not who is the most powerful, it is the one who can outthink the other.

It is being able to understand how this general thinks.

If you can outthink him and you can think the way he thinks, then you will know his next move

and more than likely you will win that battle.

Well it's interesting how in the military men study very, very thoroughly their opposing enemy.

Well you and I have an opposing enemy and he opposes us at every turn in our life.

Everywhere we turn he is there with his demonic powers in some fashion, in some way,

to cause us the falter and the fall to step out of God's will and to miss his plan for our life.

But isn't it interesting that we can just sort of go through life and somehow never think to realize

that it is very important that we understand how the enemy thinks.

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