Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

is on and the attacks are strong. The first truth nugget to understand is that a battle cannot go on forever; it has to have an ending at some point in the near future. The second truth is that every attack is time sensitive, meaning that the enemy only has a certain amount of time that he can give to the assault. Paul understood this when he wrote of his pressing conditions and reminded the church that, “Our . . . affliction . . . is but for a moment” (2 Cor. 4:17). The fact that during Jesus’s forty days in the wilderness Satan did not continually follow Christ around each day, but “departed for a season,” indicates that the attack ran out of steam because Christ initiated the ultimate weapon in the conflict—the “sword of the Spirit,” the Word of God! When Christ began quoting the Word of God, the adversary departed, as he is only able to take so much of the spoken Word being thrown at him in one particular setting. A third important truth to remember is that your reaction to the conflict can actually reduce or add additional time to the attack. If you submit to God and resist the devil, your enemy will flee from you (James 4:7). However, the opposite is also true: if you resist God and submit to the devil, he will remain near you! Your lack of resistance or lack of a will to fight back using the Word and prayer can actually lengthen the amount of time given to the enemy to battle for your soul. We know that the human immune system is usually strong and can resist and fight an illness, but when the immune system is weak, a person is more subject to a virus, a cold, or even a disease. All diseases can be traced through the blood of a person, for “the life of the flesh is in the blood” (Lev. 17:11). The power that is