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JohnMichael:
This may seem like a very simple question. In Sunday School, in Babylon, I remember being taught that if we prayed in our minds, Satan couldn't "hear" the prayer. A prayer would be solely between the supplicant and God. With everything else that we've been shown to be false that is taught by Babylon, it has called into question this teaching.

Is there any Scripture or Scriptural indication that Satan can or cannot read minds? Or is he simply a good psychologist/observer? He has had thousands of years to study mankind.

However, most demonic attacks are mental. There are instances of physical attacks (people being picked up by unseen beings and being thrown against walls, feeling like "something" is pinning a person down, etc.). If demonic attacks are mental in the majority of happenings, is that an indication of being able to read the mind?

Again, I know this is a seemingly simple question, but it was taught by Babylon that Satan could not, so this teaching has come into question for trial in the Light of God's Word. Does anyone know of any Scriptures that may help in answering this question?

In Him,
John

Rene:
Hi John Michael,

When I was a JW, I also remember being taught something similar, i.e., Satan can not hear your thoughts.

This may not be an exact answer to your question, but I think it gives us a better understanding of how Satan operates.  This is taken from Part 5 of the "Lake of Fire" series.

René


http://bible-truths.com/lake10.html

SATAN WAS CAST OUT INTO THE EARTH

Satan is a carnal-minded spirit. That may sound like a contradiction of terms, but I assure you that it is not. Carnal means fleshly, material, temporal. Satan deals with the flesh, material things, and temporal gratification. Satan is a spirit who thinks like a carnal-minded man. Although spirit by nature, Satan eats "dust."

Why do you suppose we read this in Matt. 16:23:

"But He turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, SATAN!"?

Because Satan was looking for lunch. And Peter was going to be Satan’s lunch! Satan dines on the "dust" of man’s carnality (which is enmity against God.) In Luke 22:31 we read this:

"And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired to have you [laid claim on you], that he may sift you as wheat."
Satan was sifting Simon out of the chaff as a morsel of fine food to make a meal of him! Only Jesus could have seen it coming and prevented it. How often has Satan made a fine dinner of your carnal mind?

Satan’s domain is the carnal mind, the flesh, the "dust" of this earth.

River:
This subject of mental health is of great importance to me. And all the more since religion likes to play on such matters as this. First you have to understand that the mental is physical, making them seperate is not right. Even though I know what you mean. The brain is an organ and like any other organ if it is damaged or sick etc. it doesn't function properly and produces symptoms. It is all to easy to slap a person with mental illness or problems with the mind as demon afflicted or whatever other evil or bad ideas attached to it. If someone has a heart condition why isn't that person considered demomic influenced as well? Fear and ignorance is still strong with this subject and the churches love to run with this subject. Just wanted to let that be known. On your question, I was told the same thing from churches. And I was told by many of them also that persons of a different personality which they did not like or approve of were demonic influenced. But it is easy to see by the scriptures that the very well dressed and popular people and rulers and leaders of government and churches, and lets not forget they were widely accepted, they were getting major toungue lashing from Jesus. These were people considered "sane" and "normal" and yet they murdered, lied, etc.

Mbongiseni:
Hi all
This couldn't be ansered precisely as Rene and Rivers have done!
Its one of the things that used to worry me that the devil as a spirit could possibly know what one is thinking even if one didn't announciate.I used to try hard to try and conceal my thinkings but when I started reading Ray's articles I realised that my fears had no founding.Its true the devil relies entirely on his experience with mankiind rather than penetrating our minds.
Thanks for raising it up to remind people like me that this creature is only carnally minded like most of us humans.

Mbongiseni

Marky Mark:

--- Quote ---The brain is an organ and like any other organ if it is damaged or sick etc. it doesn't function properly and produces symptoms. It is all to easy to slap a person with mental illness or problems with the mind as demon afflicted or whatever other evil or bad ideas attached to it. If someone has a heart condition why isn't that person considered demomic influenced as well? Fear and ignorance is still strong with this subject

River
--- End quote ---



If all things are of God [which Scripture teaches] then at what point in our lives do we say that it is not of God? Our mind and body are the conduit in which God works all that needs to be done in our lives,under His sovereign rule and will, for our own humility. Disease, whether it be of a mental or of a physical condition is still,none the less,all of God.To deny His sovereignty over your life is to deny His Godly authority in your life.

Our lives were predestinated according to His plan and purpose in each and every one of us, no matter what our physical or mental health experience turns out to be. After all, He created evil so that we can and will be humbled by it.

Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens:it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.

 All through Scripture God does not deny the evil that He sends to us through an evil spiritual realm.Just because that evil shows up in some sort of a negative health condition does not take away His cause for it in our lives.When we set our own thoughts aside for His Truth, we can then see that what God is doing in our lives is indeed of Him, and not something considered genetic or bad luck,but rather,His own counsel.

Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Pro 20:24 Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

Romans 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

1 Samuel 16:14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

Exodus 4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

 Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Mat 28:18  And Jesus, coming near, spake unto them, saying—All authority, in heaven and on earth, hath been given unto me;

Joh 9:3  Jesus answered—Neither, this man, sinned nor his parents; but…that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

Eph 6:12  Because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but, against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-holders, of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenlies.

1Pe 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Col 1:16  For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17  And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.


I have Faith that what my Lord in heaven is doing in my life is absolutely from Him, and not something left to chance.

Isa 64:8 And now, Yahweh, You are our Father. And we are the clay. You are our Former, and the doing of Your hand are we all."

Jer 18:6  O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.



Peace...Mark

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