Can Satan manipulate your thoughts?

[In_Training]

Interesting thread.

I have a hard time believing Satan is controlling. I know there’s temptation to disobey God, but I pretty much chalk it up to the fact that I’m an idiot…in other words, I’m:

Impulsive, reckless, violent, inconsiderate, sneaky, selfish, obnoxious, dishonest, sarcastic, rude, foulmouthed, blasphemous, and hurtful.

But all of that…that’s my fault. I’m working on becoming more peaceful, but the slip-ups are my fault. I’ve never felt controlled by something, just out of control. I gave what little control I have left to God, and I feel better. I don’t see it being possible to give control to Satan though. I don’t know why, I just don’t. Or maybe I don’t want to give him all the credit for my mistakes.

 

[Michael_Mayo]

…in other words, I’m:

Impulsive, reckless, violent, inconsiderate, sneaky, selfish, obnoxious, dishonest, sarcastic, rude, foulmouthed, blasphemous, and hurtful.

Probably a lot of fun to hang out with though.

 

[AlanFromWichita]

All I know is this, and allllll to well cause I deal with them personally. Satan and the other fallen angles speak to you on a level beyond normal sound. So when they talk to you, their words get stuck in your head, and they hit that area of the brain that causes you to obsess over them. So you end up constantly repeating them over and over in you head, and they are hard to get rid of because your brain is forced to be severely addicted. It’s like dealing with a sever addiction of repeated words that won’t go away.

Btw, I know personally because I deal with them constantly. Please consider this, and not brush over.

I hear you. When “spiritual forces” spoke to me, they were not in words but in intents or urgings or longings. It seemed it was up to my false self to give them a voice in terms of actual words and verbally described behavior. So wherever I was weak, when I got one of these urgings, they would single it out.