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therefore change their tactics to a ceaseless chain of accusations:
“You are wrong, you are wrong.” During this time the believer,
because there is no help in view, feels like sinking into a pit of sin.
But if he could recognize this as simply Satan’s lie he would rise up
and resist. He shall overcome.
Experience teaches us that directly after one apprehends the truth
of his having lost the sovereignty over his mind and accordingly
begins to seek to regain it, he shall suffer many times over that of
previous days. The evil spirits will attempt one final struggle for him.
They will employ their customary lying tactic by hinting to him that
he cannot possibly regain his freedom since he has sunk too deeply
into passivity or that God is not disposed to grant him grace again or
that he will fare better if he does not resist or that in any case he can
never see the day of deliverance so why bother to strive and suffer
anyway. Every child of God ought to know, however, that he should
not live by satanic grace. He must have liberty even should he die
retrieving it. No one can have fallen into passivity to such an extent
that he is beyond deliverance. God is for him and he shall be set free.
Once knowing the truth and acknowledging that his mind has
never been released or only partially released from the power, of
darkness, the child of God naturally will rise up to do battle against
the evil spirits in order that their stronghold in him may be
overthrown. Then and there he learns that the weapons of war must
be spiritual, for fleshly ones avail him nothing. He cannot free
himself by making resolutions or by adopting measures to improve
his memory or thinking. His mind is captive to supernatural powers
that cannot be cast out or destroyed by carnal devices. The believer
never dreams that the powers of darkness could have so profoundly
usurped his head until he learns the truth for himself and prepares to
retrieve the lost territory which these wicked powers will accordingly
be stirred to defend. The child of God thus comes to see how dark,
dull, passive, and out of control his head truly is. The devil will use
every means to torture his mind, threatening him not to take any