Progressive, Patient Attack Strategies Used Against God's Men

John Stanford has some good counsel for us:

"New followers of Christ are soon attacked with strong temptations from the Devil. His goal is to cause them to despair and turn from following Christ.

If this initial attack fails, the Devil will wait a while until the new believer's zeal has cooled, and then try new temptations.

Later, when the believer is growing well spiritually, the Devil will plant in his or her mind the temptation that the progress is due to the believer's efforts, not God's.

A fourth way the Devil attacks is to focus on the believer's weaknesses. A common attack is when the Devil plants seeds of sexual lust."

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