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Satan is defeated. He can’t arbitrarily decide to put cancer on one person, make this other person poor, and break up another person’s family. He doesn’t have that kind of power.

The only power Satan has is the power of thoughts, ideas, and suggestion. He can’t make us do anything. He can only plant a thought or suggest something. If we act on his suggestions, we’ll destroy ourselves.

By accepting his suggestions, believers have also forfeited God’s promises. A couple may want a child. Although a child is promised in the word of God (Deut. 7:14), Satan will suggest the possibility of it not happening because of their age, medical conditions, or the thought that God is punishing them because one of them had an abortion. If that couple chooses to believe Satan’s suggestions, they could destroy the abundant life God set up for them. Satan will even make that couple think it wasn’t God’s will for them to have a child even though it’s clearly documented in God’s word (Deut. 7:14).

He does the same thing about owning a home, getting married, being healed, or starting a ministry. If it’s a promise from God, Satan will suggest all the reasons why it won’t happen. Our job is to magnify God’s word above his suggestions. The more of God’s word we get inside of us, the stronger our faith becomes (Rom. 10:17). The faith we have in God’s word will cause what we desire to manifest in our lives.

‭‭2 Corinthians 2:10-11 NLT‬‬ When you forgive this man, I forgive him, too. And when I forgive whatever needs to be forgiven, I do so with Christ’s authority for your benefit, so that Satan will not outsmart us. For we are familiar with his evil schemes.