WHAT SATAN IS NOT...

..:: As wise, powerful and experienced Satan is, he is still finite. And makes all the difference ::..

1.) Satan can only be in one place at one time.
He is dependent upon lines of communication with his troops. Experience, based on Bible teaching, has demonstrated that we can pray and server those lines of communication to great effect.

For thou art great, and doest wondrous things:thou art God alone.
Psalm 86:10

Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be
bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be
loosed in heaven.
Matthew 18:18

2.) Satan is not all-knowing.
Since he must depend upon his demon lackeys to convey information to him, such conveyance can be dealt with through intercessory spiritual warfare.

Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from
the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all the things; that stretched
forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Isaiah 44:24

3.) Satan does not know the future.
Satan does know the Bible. He has probably forgotten more about Bible prophecy than any ten seminaries full of Bible scholars will ever known. Beyond that. "prophecies" that his servants (false prophets, psychics, etc.) make wich come true, do so because they are contingent upon plans that Satan, himself, has laid. But God can over-rule his plans. This is why many psychic predictions fail, whereas the Bible's predictions are 100% accurate.

Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together:
who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that
time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a
just God and a saviour; there is none beside me.
Isaiah 45:21

4.) Satan has comparatively little power...
Especially as dar as Christians are concerned. Though he is more powerful than any human beign, and can work lying signs and wonders, he is on a very short leash with children of God! He can only touch us to the extent that our sins give him access points or that God permits him. A little five-year-old girl who is Born Again and understands who she is in Jesus can toss Satan around (through the name of Jesus) like pin-pong ball.

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, ALL power is given
unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matthew 28:18

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they
cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up
serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they
shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Mark 16:17-18

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee
from you.
James 4:7

5.) Satan is unoriginal.
This is because God is the source of creativity. Most of what Satan does is a twisting of the good things wich God has given us, wheter they be spiritual, physical, intellectual or emotional. He also keeps recycling the same old tired lies he was using hundreds of years ago, knowing that humans tend to not read church history.

For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that
formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not
in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none
else.
Isaiah 45:18

6.) Satan is an ego-maniac.
His pride makes him overplay his hand in many areas. That's why it pleases God to continually humble Satan through His weak human instruments. Satan actually thinks he can win. in spite of the Book of revelation, and in spite ogf the fact that every time he has opposed God he has gotten the brimstone seriously kicked out of him.

That pride, originally his downfall, will be his doom again and again. He has made the ultimate mistake of believeing his own lies!

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will
exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the
mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend
above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isaiah 14:13-14

7.) Satan cannot comprehend compassion, brokenness or self-sacrifice.
That's why those are the very areas in wich God continues to thwart him. Gos uses our weaknesses coupled with His grace to overthrow the plans of Satan. Since Satan cannot comprehend these unreadable areas of human nature to predict. He is continually amazed by what the Holy Spirit can enable mere Christians to do who are surrendered to the Lord.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness
of God is stronger then men.
1 Cor. 1:25

8.) Satan is NOT God!
This may be self-evident, yet it makes more difference then all other eight factors put together. There is more power in one drop of Jesus Christ's blood than in all of Satan's legions. And that drives Satan absolutely mad wih rage.

I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me:
I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know
from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no none
beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
Isaiah 45:5-6