When afflicted or oppressed, Satan uses many tactics to add to your burden and keep you in the grip of affliction. When you are afflicted Satan will tell you that you are being punished for your sins. He will go back into your life and pull out every skeleton he can condemn you with. He will condemn you with things that you may have confessed and have been cleansed from. We must know how to answer Satan when he falsely accuses us. I John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

He knows that when you are acutely depressed your mind is open to his negative suggestions.

Perhaps Satan’s most common and successful tactic is to accuse or blame someone else for your trouble. More