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place of him. But God never does so because He wants man to
cooperate actively with Him. However, the believer unwittingly has
fulfilled the conditions for the operations of the evil spirits and they
do not hesitate to step in and act. Man himself does not act, neither
does God act, so the evil spirits act for him. Let the Christian mark
this well that once he has perceived the will of God in his spirit’s
intuition his whole being needs to be employed actively in executing
God’s will. He should not be passive.