devil does not have any power. what he has is just tricks. And this his tricks are very, i mean very clever. The bad thing about trick i that you never know its a trick until you see the repercussion. If you're a child of God, the devil cannot really hurt you, because whom God has Blessed, devil cannot curse. The devil knows that, so the only thing the devil can do is to trick you.
Lets look at different events that buttresses what I'm talking about.
1. Adam &Eve in the Garden: adam&eve were God's children. Had everything on earth, in the garden of eden. The devil who is jealous of God's children, tried to push them away from the garden, but because he knows he does not have the power to do that, he started to use the only thing/device he has; tricks. when the devil wants to trick you, he comes in a subtle, gentle way. It's almost impossible to for you to detect that a trick is on the way.
devil knew the only way to push adam&eve out of the garden away from God's
Blessing was to trick them. So he tricked Eve and she ate the forbidden food, and gave to adam. Genesis 3:13- And God asked eve, why did you eat the forbidden fruit, and he said, the devil tricked me.
2. The disobedient Man of God- There was a man of God, that God sent to deliver a message to king Jeroboam in 1 Kings 13, God specifically told him,don't eat/drink anything there. After the man delivered the message, the king offered him food, he refused and went away. On his way, the devil again, decided to trick the man.1kings 13:18- The devil sent an old(fake) prophet to trick him and he went back to the place, ate and drank. And God destroyed the man of God.
Because he fell for the trick and disobeyed God.
3. The devil tempted Jesus. For forty day he was tempting(trying to trick) Jesus but didn't succeed. Immediately after Jesus fasted forty days, he(devil) knew Jesus would be very hungry, so what was did he do. Luke 4:3- If you know you are truly the the son of God, turn this stone to bread. Anyone could have easily fallen for that trick because of hunger and because Jesus was filled with the power of God after fasting BUT Jesus knowing whom the devil is, did not obey him.
Beloved, the devil will always come tricky. He will entice you with attractive things. If you're a man, the devil will come with a young pretty lady to make you fall for fornication. You might call it love/girlfriend/dating but fornication is fornication.
A young lady, destined to be great. while in school, because of peer pressure, decided to have a boyfriend,(Trick no.1), just after the first sex,(trick no2) she got pregnant. Again because of shame decided to abort(trick no 3). While aborting the doctor ruptured her womb.
Seven years later, after her Masters in America, met the son of a president of a certain country, a rich Medical doctor. He decided to marry her. Just a week to the wedding, she fell a little sick, and he decided to run a scan on her, and he discovered her womb has been tampered. He, being a doctor knows she can't have a baby. So he just had to cancel the wedding. So now here she is, a lawyer, found the man of her dreams that will change her life forever but what? The devil had played the trick on her years ago and she fell.
It's good to pray for God to bless us, but it's even more important to prayagainst the tricks of the devil.
More truths coming your way soonest.....
