Quotes about Devil

Fear attacks the foundation of our relationship with God—our faith. Fear is faith in the devil; it is also called unbelief.

When we do the will of God, we bring Kingdom reality crashing into the works of the devil. We initiate conflict between earthly reality and heavenly reality, becoming the bridge and connection point that makes it possible through prayer and radical obedience to assert the rulership of God.

The devil isn't a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he's had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.

Every level of inheritance requires a disinheritance from the devil. Satan must be moved off before the saint can move in.

Exaggerated, overstated, inflated, irrational thoughts are the devil's specialty.

The devil wants to stop any believer from fulfilling his or her God-given destiny. He also knows that most believers feel almost invulnerable after a mountaintop experience with God. Actually, that's when we are most vulnerable because falling into sin is the last thing we're expecting. We're wise to expect times of testing after times of blessing.

A stronghold is any way the devil tries to presume authority in our lives. If we belong to Christ, Satan has no right to exercise authority over us, but he hopes we're too ignorant regarding Scripture to know it.

The great dragon was thrown out— the ancient serpent … the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. Revelation 12:9

herself in powerlessness to the ridicule of the world. We can't blame the devil. For the most part we've dumbed-down New Testament Christianity and accepted our reality as theology rather than biblical theology as our reality. We've reversed the standard, walking by sight and not by faith. We

We can remain surrendered to the cause of Christ, sacrificial and sanctified, gospel driven to the bone, and our fruitfulness can still suffer loss. All the devil has to do is lure us away from abiding in Christ.

PRAYER Lord, help me to put on the full spiritual armor You have provided for me so that I can "stand against the wiles of the devil" every day. In Jesus' name I pray. GO DEEPER

The Bible says, "How can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man?" (Matthew 12:29). In other words, we can't have any effect in the devil's territory unless we first bind him and forbid him any authority there.