Activities Demons Promote

1.     Disruption. Demons aggravate existing situations. They push, prod, tempt, and entice people to make poor or unwise decisions. They work to make bad things worse and get people to overdo good things so that once-good things are no longer positive.

2.     Temptation. Satan tempted Eve (Gen. 3:1–7) and Jesus (Matt. 16:21–23). It seems they can put ideas in people’s minds and tempt in areas of greatest vulnerability.

3.     Hiddenness. Demons like to stay hidden. They want people to think they don’t exist. Being aware that a problem is demonic is more than half the battle. 

4.     Fear. Demons want us to fear them. It keeps us under their control. Demons can be greatly weakened through repentance and inner healing. They are not to feared. 

5.     Deceit. Deceit is one of the primary strategies of the demonic. They lie about people and God. They also slander. Their lies can be direct contradictions or sometimes indirect questioning of truth. 

6.     Hindrance. Demons want to stop the advance of the gospel and the spreading of the Kingdom of God. They hinder Christians from effectiveness in ministry and non-Christina’s from receptivity to the gospel. They will attack Christians to keep them in church or attending Bible study, small group, or any place where grace is dispensed into their lives. They push to make our minds wander to distract from sermons or edifying messages. 

7.     Accusation. Demons cripple through accusation. They whisper accusations of others and undermine relationships. They especially make accusations about God (Gen. 3).

8.     Enablement. Demons enable compulsions. They delight in helping people to develop a compulsive approach to both good and bad behavior. They encourage harmful compulsive behavior as well as overdoing “good” things like work, study, doctrinal purity, family, achievement, etc. 

9.     Harassment. Demons want to disrupt our lives using whatever means possible. This includes traffic, weather, health, stress, relationships, sleep, eating habits, and even mechanical objects (cars, computers, etc.).