What Is Satan

What Is Satan's Armor?

Discover his Methods

The only way to really continuously walk in victory as a Christian is to learn what Satan's armor is. In other words, we must learn about the methods that he so cleverly uses to rob us of the good things that God wants us to have. If we are aware of his methods, it will be much easier to catch him at work before he deceives us or tells us a lie that we believe without even bothering to check it out. Knowing his methods will just generally help us to be more on guard and more aware of evil.

Satan is the ruler of this world now and has power over those who don't obey God, whether they know it or not. Listed below are the pieces of his armor so you can become more aware of his methods:

THE VEIL - II Corinthians 4:4 - The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. Satan blinds people's minds in the way of watering down what is said to them. You may be telling them the truth, but by the time it filters through preconceived thoughts and beliefs, often what they hear is only a fraction of the truth. We tend to hear a word being spoken by our own set of beliefs and truths that have already been ingrained into us. If it is very different from what we already believe, sometimes we just dismiss it and think of it as far-fetched or unbelievable. This is why when you are praying for someone to get saved or to get delivered from some kind of bondage, you need to be aware of the veil that Satan has placed before them and pray that the veil will be torn down so that the Holy Spirit can get in to do His work.
SPIRIT OF ERROR AND DELUSION - II Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause (not receiving the truth of God) God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie. (Parenthesis mine) Sometimes when people just keep on going down the wrong path and won't change, God just says that he will let them believe what they want to. I think that is if they are just adamant and have grown very bitter against God and everything about God. I don't think it's just somebody who just hasn't seen the light yet.
SPIRIT OF THE WORLD - I Corinthians 2:12 - Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. The spirit of the world is the flesh and everything connected with it. Satan would like for you to live this way as much as possible, because he knows you'll always go by your own feelings and desires and do what you think is best instead of waiting on and relying on God. He knows that when you go by your own feelings and desires, that you will mess up your life greatly and you'll be so busy trying to straighten it out that he won't have to worry much about you becoming the Christian that God wants you to be. Satan just wants you to stay as worldly as you possibly can. That makes it much better for him all the way around.
DISOBEDIENT SPIRIT - Ephesians 2:1-2 - And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Satan always wants you to be disobedient to God in whatever way he can make you be. That's why God said that to obey him is better than to offer sacrifices. If Satan can get you to be disobedient, then he can thwart God's plans for you. If he can't thwart them totally, then he can at least keep you from having the very best plans that God has made for you. We should never settle for good when we can have the very best. When we get rid of the "OLD MAN" this disobedient spirit has to leave because it can only work in Satan's world.

In Dake's Reference Bible, there is a footnote that talks about Satan's wiles or methods. It says "SATAN'S METHOD OR STRATEGY REFERS TO THE SYSTEMATIZING OF ERROR AND MAKING IT SUCH A PERFECT COUNTERFEIT OF TRUTH THAT ONLY THOSE EXPERIENCED IN TRUTH WILL CATCH IT.

That's just how sneaky Satan is. Learn his methods so you can recognize him and his ways and don't let him win in your life or the lives of your family and loved ones!!

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Text written and authored by Cathy Deaton.