Can the Devil Read My Mind? BY Adriel Sanchez for Core Christianity
We have to remember that Satan is limited. He’s not omniscient. He’s not like God; he’s a created being. While the Lord sees and knows all things, the devil—Satan—and his minions don’t. So no, I don’t believe that Satan can read our thoughts.
It does seem to me that, in Scripture, he can plant external ideas and temptations into our minds. I think about what we read in John 13. This is right after Jesus has started to wash his disciples’ feet. We read in verse 2: “During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him.” In other words, this is something that Judas is doing under the influence of the devil himself, the evil one. These temptations—these influences or thoughts can come from the outside, but I don’t think that that means that Satan can read our thoughts now.
The evil one does have some kind of supernatural power. You see this all over the place, like in the book of Exodus where you have Pharaoh’s magicians replicating the miracles that God was doing through Moses. This was probably some sort of supernatural demonic power. Or in Acts 16 there’s a slave girl who’s possessed by a spirit of divination. We’re told that she brought her master much profit through fortune telling. In other words, she had this sort of supernatural ability that was given to her by the evil one. Satan is limited, but he does have this supernatural power, though I don’t think it’s a power to read your mind or to look into your mind.
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