Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

deity worshipped among the Egyptians. No one knows what weakness lay hidden deep within their spirits until pressure squeezed them and what was hidden began to surface. The same is true for us. It may be a bad temper, depression, or negative words that pour forth. Since “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matt. 12:34), pressure on the inward man of the heart will force words out of the mouth that at times people regret. God’s test is to prove you, but Satan’s temptation is intent on destroying you (John 10:10). When a believer endures a trial of faith, it builds character and integrity. When Satan succeeds in a temptation, the fruit is guilt, condemnation, and shame. I have encountered numerous trials and tribulations during my many years of walking with God. In retrospect, each time I overcame and moved forward, it only added to the foundation of my faith, as it built more trust that God could see me through anything (Phil. 4:13). Satan’s temptations are designed to have the opposite result. When Satan assigned himself to go after Peter, the plan was to sift him as wheat to cause his faith to fail. Christ interceded for Peter prior to this attack and prayed that his faith would “not fail” (Luke 22:32). After many years of ministry and more than seventy thousand hours of study in the Word, I have learned that all of our temptations are designed to wreck our faith and cause us to fail God. This was Paul’s warning when he wrote in 1 Thessalonians 3:5: For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the