Can Satan Hear our Thoughts and Prayers?

[Guest Calamity]

Wanted to get some opinions no this. Satan is not everywhere all the time, like God is, so can he hear our private thoughts in our heads, and our silent prayers that we do not pray out loud?

Personally, I don't think that this is something to worry about. Sometimes, I believe, we give Satan more credit than he is due.

Jesus is the victor, and He has given us the power and authority to overcome.

This, IMHO, is all we need to know.

OK?

Thanks, neb. I know this, and am not worried, but just curious as to what others thought, and why. Greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world......

[Guest dove2]

I don't know of a verse to back this up. I don't believe he can hear or know our thoughts. I believe he can only give us thoughts if we let him.

[angels4u]

I don't think satan can read our mind and our silent prayers, but he can hear them if we pray out loud.

And I doubt he is is able to act on those.

Why I think that? Because Jesus promised to answer all our prayers and in Him is our faith.

The devil might try to imitate God and pretend to give you false answers, but God will not allow him.

If we stay close to Gods word He will stay close to us and we don't have to worry and worry is fear and fear is sin .

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1:7

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." Psalm 23:4

"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" Psalm 27:1

"In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee." Isaiah 54:14

Remember the devil can't do anything without God allowing him.

Angels

[eric]

Hi Calamity,In the book of Daniel, chaptr 10, without quoting verse by verse, Daniel tells of how he prayed and fasted fo 3 weeks without even washing or shaving. Anyway he had this vision and fell flat on his face,, after which the angel helped to his feet and told him what happened.

The first thing to note was the fact that the angel told him that God had heard his prayer and had answered on the very first day that Daniel had started and on that very first day the Lord sent the angel to meet him. But for twenty one days the evil spirit of the king of persia blocked his way and Micheal came to his aid.

That's a pretty rough traslation of what transpired, but you can read it your self. The point I'm trying to make here is that it seems that satan in this instance couldn't or would't interfere with the prayer going out, but did interefere with the answer, which as the angel told Daniel, was heard on the very first day.

Admittedly this from the OT,but it's the same God that we worship and pray to so you can draw your own conclusion after you read the passage yourself.

It appears ,to me at any rate, that satan does hear your prayer or he wouln't have had the evil spirit there to block the angel's mission.

Just something to muse over.

blessings.

eric.

[Guest Calamity]

Hi Calamity,In the book of Daniel, chaptr 10, without quoting verse by verse, Daniel tells of how he prayed and fasted fo 3 weeks without even washing or shaving. Anyway he had this vision and fell flat on his face,, after which the angel helped to his feet and told him what happened.

The first thing to note was the fact that the angel told him that God had heard his prayer and had answered on the very first day that Daniel had started and on that very first day the Lord sent the angel to meet him. But for twenty one days the evil spirit of the king of persia blocked his way and Micheal came to his aid.

That's a pretty rough traslation of what transpired, but you can read it your self. The point I'm trying to make here is that it seems that satan in this instance couldn't or would't interfere with the prayer going out, but did interefere with the answer, which as the angel told Daniel, was heard on the very first day.

Admittedly this from the OT,but it's the same God that we worship and pray to so you can draw your own conclusion after you read the passage yourself.

It appears ,to me at any rate, that satan does hear your prayer or he wouln't have had the evil spirit there to block the angel's mission.

Just something to muse over.

blessings.

eric.

Aha! Thanks, eric. I remember that, but not word for word, but never thought of it pertaining to this question. Do you know if Daniel was praying aloud, or silently? I'll try to find the passage. Thanks!!

[Guest Calamity]

In Daniel 10, I couldn't find where it said he was praying aloud or silently, but in Daniel 9, it says this:

Dan. 9

The Seventy "Sevens"

20 While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the LORD my God for his holy hill-

However, I do not know enough about the book of Daniel to know if this is the same prayer mentioned in Chapter 10, or another one. This prayer here, sounds like it was aloud.

[Hvnly1Rose]

I personally believe that satan knows human nature and we are creatures of habit so it is very easy for him and his minions to cause trouble for us without having to spend every waking moment with us. The rest I think we like to blame on him because hes a good scapegoat and we don't know who else to blame. Now I do believe that he has a hand in things that have to do with interfearing with your faith....like when you become a leader/teacher/pastor you have more spiritual attacks then when you are only responsible for your own spiritual well being...but even as you become stronger in the Lord the attacts become more frequent.

I found the first Screwtape letter online if anyone wants to read it, now remember this is the point of view of the enemy.

"The Screwtape Letters - Letter I

My dear Wormwood,

I note what you say about guiding your patient's reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialist friend. But are you not being a trifle naif? It sounds as if you supposed that argument was the way to keep him out of the Enemy's clutches. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier. At that time the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was not; and if it was proved they really believed it. They still connected thinking with doing and were prepared to alter their way of life as the result of a chain of reasoning. But what with the weekly press and other such weapons, we have largely altered that. Your man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous

[eric]

Hi again Calamity, I have to agree that it does sound like Daniel was speaking aloud as stated in chap 9, which is the same prayer as in chap 10' so it still leaves the question , does satan know our thoughts? Well nowhere in the word does that satan have the omnipitence, omnecience or omnipresence as the Father, so I doubt that he would know our thoughts.

My thoughts about anyway.

Calamity, you have a beaut day in the word.

eric.

[nebula]

My concern is that people are going to be so concerned about "Satan hearing my prayers" that they become afraid to pray.

[Guest Calamity]

Thanks, eric. I agree. Neb, I never thought of that - about causing someone to be afraid to pray. Eric is right, though, and we should not be worried about praying. Even if the devil could here silent prayers, he couldn't do anything to stop them, and God knows what we are going to be praying about before we even do it, anyway.