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Many believers wonder how Satan is able to gain ground in their lives. The first place Satan starts to work is in their mind, and one of Satan's greatest and most powerful weapons is the weapon of suggestion.

After all, that was the weapon Satan used against Eve

in the garden (Gen. 3:1-7). Eve followed Satan's suggestion, and she was "beguiled" or deceived by him (Gen. 3:13). One of Satan's main strategies today is still to beguile people; he tricks and deceives them by his suggestions.

But we don't have to fall prey to Satan's suggestions because the Bible says we are to give the devil no place in us. That means don't give him any place in your thought life. If the devil can get a place in your thought life, he can get a place in you.

Jesus then told me that when this woman began to think Satan's thoughts and follow Satan's suggestions, she became obsessed with that kind of thinking. She began to like thinking those thoughts. Then in the vision, the woman changed and she became transparent, as if her body were made of glass. And I could see a black dot in her head about as big as a half-dollar.

Jesus explained to me, "At first this woman, My servant, was merely oppressed by this evil spirit from the outside. She rebuked him because as a child of Mine she had authority over the devil. She resisted him several times and he left. But the last time she began to listen to him and to continue to think his thoughts and listen to his suggestions, because she liked to think those thoughts. Then she became obsessed with the devil's thoughts."

Jesus said to me, "She became obsessed with that kind of thinking, but even then it wasn't too late. She was still My child. She knew what to do. If she had wanted to put those thoughts out of her mind, she could have. She could have said, 'I refuse to think like that.

That's of the devil, and I resist you, Satan, in the Name of Jesus.' But she wanted to think those thoughts, so

she continued to think like that until she became obsessed with that thinking."

It's possible for a believer to become obsessed in his thinking with the devil's thoughts. But I want you to understand this: That woman could have rebuked the devil at any time because she had authority over Satan in Jesus' Name, even in her thought life.

Jesus explained, "She knew what she was doing. She even knew she was obsessed with that kind of thinking.

At any time she could have said, 'These thoughts are of the devil, and I refuse to think like that. I command you, Satan, to leave me. Get behind me, in the Name of Jesus,' and Satan would have obeyed her. But she liked to think, I'm beautiful. So she continued to think, I have been cheated. In the world I could have had fame, fortune, and popularity."

Jesus explained, "It wasn't until she began listening to what the devil was saying and to entertain his thoughts that she began to go wrong.

"She eventually left her husband and took up with another man. She went from that man to another man.

Then she went from that man to still another man, until she'd had five different men and didn't marry any of them; she just lived with them."

Jesus said, "It still wasn't too late. If she had repented and turned back to Me and asked Me, I would have forgiven her. She didn't need anyone to put the devil on the run for her. She could have done it herself."

Jesus doesn't endorse and condone wrongdoing, but, thank God, He forgives wrongdoing if the believer is sincerely sorry, asks for forgiveness, and repents and turns from his sin (1 John 1:9). Also, notice Jesus' statement, "She didn't need anyone to put the devil on

the run for her. She could have done it herself."

It's not enough just to have authority in Christ.

Believers need to exercise the authority they have over the devil before it will do them any good.

Then in the vision, I saw a leader of a particular Full Gospel denomination go to a hotel. In the vision I was standing outside the hotel. I saw the name of the hotel.

Then it seemed as if I went right inside the hotel with this Full Gospel minister. He went up to the desk to inquire if Mr. and Mrs. So-and-so were registered there. They were. This woman was registered with a man as his wife.

The minister of this denomination went up to the door of their hotel room, and in the vision, in the Spirit, I was standing in the hallway. I saw the whole scene as it was taking place. The minister knocked on the door.

This woman came to the door with almost no clothes on and opened it. When she opened the door, she recognized this man, a leader of the Full Gospel denomination.

She said, "I know what you came for." The minister had come to try to restore her and pray with her and get her back to God and to come back to her husband.

She said, "But I want to tell you as far as Jesus Christ is concerned, to hell with Him." And she slammed the door in the minister's face.

Jesus said to me, "You see, she doesn't want Me anymore."

"Now," Jesus continued, "if she had been overly tempted and in a fit of temptation or in a rage of passion and had said, 'I don't want Him,' I would have overlooked it and forgiven her. But she knew exactly

what she was doing. She willfully and deliberately said, 'I don't want Him.'"

And when she said that, I saw that big black dot in her head, about as big as a half-dollar, go from her head down inside of her, into her heart and down into her spirit. Then Jesus said to me, "Now she has become possessed with that devil. That devil has control of her now, but only by her permission."

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