I have listened to your tape set, as well as read your book, on ‘Satan Unmasked.’ Both were a great revelation of understanding.There are still a couple of things I am still trying to sort out. I know that Satan is a defeated foe. How do you know when you are being influenced by: 1) your own flesh 2) your own heart 3) Satan in an area where you are unaware/ignorant of what his wiles are?

Your question is very legitimate. Looking inside ourselves is a very subjective experience. To answer it I want to establish a few definitions: 1. Being in the flesh is any time that you attempt to earn righteousness or favor with God by your works or efforts. In order to determine if I am in the flesh, I must simply ask myself, “Am I trying to earn something from God by my actions?” The actions may be the right actions, but if the motive is wrong we isolate ourselves from the grace/ability of God. In Galatians 5:4 Paul said that Christ had become of no effect because they had fallen from grace. Leaving the realm of grace is not about our born again experience. It is being in the place where God’s power works in us.

According to Galatians 2:21 when I attempt to be made righteous by my works/flesh I frustrate, neutralize, set aside the grace of God. 2. The only way we can know our own heart and the voice of God in our heart is by a life of
honest communication and intimacy with God and an anchor in the Word of God. Until we learn the voice of God there is a simple test that will cause us to know if we are in truth. Everything in both the Old and New Covenants is fulfilled in two commands. Believe on (commit to, rely on, trust in) the Lord Jesus and walk in Love, 1 John 3:23-24.

In every situation we must ask ourselves, “Am I fully committed to the teachings and principles of the Lord Jesus and am I walking love?” Love will always express the characteristics found in 1 Corinthians 13. 3. If I have properly asked these things, I have no fear of the devil. He has no power over me. He is a defeated foe. I am only subject to him when I operate in the principles of his system. When I walk in God’s love I cannot be deceived. I have a new tape set entitled “Spiritual Warfare: The Last Stand.” You would probably find answers to many of your questions in that set. I have received many great testimonies from people who have developed a greater practical understanding of our freedom in Christ and our absolute victory over the devil as they have listened to this set.