1 Kings 8:39 says, "then hear in heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men”
God knows your heart. As in your mind, inner thoughts. The devil can read you like a book tho. The devil can show you a beautiful woman, and your mind will do the rest. The devil knows our hearts, he understands them. Our hearts can be evil. But only God possess the power to truly know you. And what your made of. Heart and mind.
Thank you, that actually clarifies a question I've had for a long time. At one point I was being spiritually attacked and it SEEMED like the devil could hear my silent prayers and then counter them with his own bs. But that was my own mind operating on the fears the devil had already seeded, taking them to their logical conclusions, operating within the framework the devil had set up there. It's good to have this closure on the matter, now I can have more confidence towards God in prayer. (I had been leaning more and more towards this conclusion but to hear it from someone else + a solid scripture puts me over the edge)
As my wife says a lot, say it out loud…to rebuke Satan. In Jesus’s name I rebuke you devil. Then saying out loud, give prayers to Jesus to rebuke this evil. Say it nice and loud so the devil gets a ear full. It works. I mean you don’t have to scream it and scare the neighbors…but basically use your voice.
Yea as a new Christian a few years ago, I didn’t know the devil couldn’t read my mind either. I felt like he was in my head constantly. I eventually learned through lessons or scripture and church that it’s was more me, my mind doing what it does, but being manipulated by the devil. The devil calls us by our sins constantly. Jesus would never do this. There are many videos that helps in learning to decipher “the voice” we hear. From the Holy Spirit and not the enemy. But we are hit humans. We have to have daily prayer and “walk in the spirit”, as Paul talks about in the Bible. When our focus is on Jesus more, it silences the evil that surrounds us.
Put it this way the devil has millenia of experience reading human nature and tendencies so essentially he's making really good guesses based on how we have acted in the past as well as his knowledge of humankind. That's best explanation I've ever heard
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1 Kings 8:39 says, "then hear in heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men”
God knows your heart. As in your mind, inner thoughts. The devil can read you like a book tho. The devil can show you a beautiful woman, and your mind will do the rest. The devil knows our hearts, he understands them. Our hearts can be evil. But only God possess the power to truly know you. And what your made of. Heart and mind.
Thank you, that actually clarifies a question I've had for a long time. At one point I was being spiritually attacked and it SEEMED like the devil could hear my silent prayers and then counter them with his own bs. But that was my own mind operating on the fears the devil had already seeded, taking them to their logical conclusions, operating within the framework the devil had set up there. It's good to have this closure on the matter, now I can have more confidence towards God in prayer. (I had been leaning more and more towards this conclusion but to hear it from someone else + a solid scripture puts me over the edge)
As my wife says a lot, say it out loud…to rebuke Satan. In Jesus’s name I rebuke you devil. Then saying out loud, give prayers to Jesus to rebuke this evil. Say it nice and loud so the devil gets a ear full. It works. I mean you don’t have to scream it and scare the neighbors…but basically use your voice. Yea as a new Christian a few years ago, I didn’t know the devil couldn’t read my mind either. I felt like he was in my head constantly. I eventually learned through lessons or scripture and church that it’s was more me, my mind doing what it does, but being manipulated by the devil. The devil calls us by our sins constantly. Jesus would never do this. There are many videos that helps in learning to decipher “the voice” we hear. From the Holy Spirit and not the enemy. But we are hit humans. We have to have daily prayer and “walk in the spirit”, as Paul talks about in the Bible. When our focus is on Jesus more, it silences the evil that surrounds us.
Put it this way the devil has millenia of experience reading human nature and tendencies so essentially he's making really good guesses based on how we have acted in the past as well as his knowledge of humankind. That's best explanation I've ever heard