The devil knows you have authority over him. What he's hedging his bet on is that you'll never find out, or if you do find out, that you won't dare confront him with it.
I see so many believers that know they have authority over the devil's junk, yet they won't use it for fear of attack from him!
Is that how a man or woman of God should act? We are to be overcomers, not "undercomers." Remember, the rewards of heaven are reserved for those who "overcome," not for those who would have, but....
My Bible says in 1 John 4:4, "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." Did you see that?
Read that verse over and over again until it sinks in! It says we are overcomers because greater is He, the Holy Spirit, that dwells in us, than he (the devil) that is in the world.
That means we're going over, not under. But so many people who write to me are in the "going under" mode. Hey, wake up! God doesn't want you to fail, He wants you to succeed. So you may say, "Brother Jerry, I believe God wants me to succeed, but...."
Please don't be offended if I tell you that your problem just may be your "but".... Why are you making the Word of God void by your word "but"? It doesn't say "Ye are healed by the stripes of Jesus, but...."
Nor does it say, "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me, but...."
You see, there isn't a "but" written there, so why are you putting one there? I'll tell you why; it's because you don't know who you are in Christ Jesus!
If someone were to ask your name, you would tell them, for example, "My name is Bob." You have no problem knowing who you are, and if someone walks by and calls out "Barbara," you wouldn't pay any attention, because your name is Bob.
But yet, as a Christian (that is, one who has put on Christ Jesus), you answer to a name far below that which God has named you. God has called you "Overcomer," and when the devil walks by and calls out "Loser," you answer like that's your name instead of "Overcomer."
You see, my friend, the devil will steal you blind if you let him get away with it. He will make his lies seem so very real to you that you may become willing to give up what God says about you in favor of the circumstances.
If he can get you to do that, he wins, and you lose.
Instead, call him a liar to his face. After all, that's what he is, and that's all he knows how to do. There is no truth in him at all. On the other hand, there is only truth coming from God, and no lie in Him at all.
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Jerry Baysinger was a twenty-one-and-a-half-year civilian employee of Missouri State Highway Patrol and operator of his own successful furniture repair business, when in 1993, he was diagnosed with five melanomas and liver cancer. Given a month to live, he resigned from the Patrol and went home to die. 
