How to Deal With Evil Spiritsthought life. That is the way the devil begins his
operation against a person—through his mind and his
thought life.
Jesus said, "Because this man listened to the evil
spirit and opened his mind to the demon's suggestions,
the evil spirit was able to enter into the man's mind."
When the man did that, he became obsessed in his mind
—in his thinking. He liked dwelling on Satan's
thoughts.
Just as Jesus had explained in the case of the
Christian woman who had become obsessed and then
possessed, Jesus said that this man could do something
himself about the devil and about thinking those kinds
of thoughts, even though he wasn't a believer.
You see, even though this man wasn't a Christian,
he still had free choice, and he didn't have to think
those kind of thoughts. At any time he could have
chosen not to think like that even if he didn't recognized
that they were the devil's thoughts. At any time he
could have changed his thinking; he didn't need anyone
to change his thinking for him.
Saved and unsaved people alike can choose to think
whatever they want to—good thoughts or evil thoughts
—because they have free choice. But the man continued
to yield to the devil's thoughts until he became obsessed
with those evil thoughts. Then Jesus said to me, "Now
he is obsessed with that kind of thinking, and the devil
has control of this mind."
You Choose What You Think About
You hear people say all the time, "I just can't help
the way I think." But, yes, you can if you want to. The
Bible says you can. You—not God, and certainly not the