God’s modus operandi is through wisdom (His Word) through words.  Satan’s modus operandi comes by thoughts, images (imaginations) that bypass your spirit.  His plan is to occupy your time, through your thoughts and feelings and render you hopeless in your circumstances. God’s Word is generated into your spirit as a seed and when it germinates you begin to process thoughts.  God’s wisdom is activated and creates faith realities causing you to triumph in situaions of life.  The spiritual realm influences the wisdom of man.  The wisdom of man has to feed on either the wisdom of satan (thoughts) or the wisdom of God (words).  You will find that most of satan’s wisdom will come from the outside fueled through the soul.  Thought: fueled or filtered?  Your spirit filters what comes to your soul or your body…but your soul is fueled.  When the soul is  fueled by something you will find it can rarely process the filter by your spirit.  2 Corinthians 2:11 warns us not to let satan take advantage of us through our ignorance of his devices.  This is an imperative in the Greek, do not allow satan to dupe , defraud, outwit, or exploit you!  How do I resist the devil? Ephesians 6:10 Stand: resist, oppose, push back…this is a spiritual exercise.