"...give no opportunity to the devil." Ephesians4:27
The 2nd chapter of Ephesians explains our seat with Christ. We are seated, present tense, in the heavens with Christ. Obviously, this is not our physical bodies, but our spirit. This is why Paul always directs us to live by the Spirit and not the flesh; because it's much better to acknowledge our position in Christ than our position in this world.
The enemy's attacks are in attempt to get us to relinquish our position with Christ in the heavenlies. He attacks our flesh to get us to respond in the same way; the flesh. He knows that if we will respond on his terms, we give up our heavenly positioning to fight on his terms, where we have no power over him.
We have to be watchful, giving him no opportunity in which to catch us off our post. Often it is a storm aimed to blow us physically off our post. Other times there are distractions and curiosities that lure us away, seemingly harmless, but they cause us to relax our watch.
Then there is the secretive attack on reason when the enemy uses "good sense" to reduce our perspective back to earth and dethrone the Almighty God in our minds. This is a most covert attack, and is often the most effective. Be careful how much thought you give to reason. Reason cannot accept the dead risen to life.
In all these things, the natural response is that of the flesh: fear, worry, sickness, stress, arguments and dissensions. Whenever we respond in the flesh, our post is abandoned, giving opportunity to the devil to take yielded ground. He cannot take ground unless he is offered it by our flesh. Resist him and he will flee from you. Stand your watch, using the Sword of the Spirit as your weapon.
"So I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh." (Galatians 5:16)
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