The first thing I learned from Professor Noble was that the thoughts that popped into my mind randomly but lately with greater frequency were from the devil and his demons that were assigned to me. The first temptation that the devil brought into Jesus life was ” if you are the Son of God” prove it. Their primary goal is to get me to turn my back on Jesus and run my own life, then they can own me. He assured me that I was normal and not bad nor weak, nor carnal for having the thoughts that I had. In fact it was a compliment to my potential because the Kingdom of darkness goes after those who will have the greatest negative impact on their evil plans. He gave me a book by C.S. Lewis who was an atheist but became a strong believer and follower of Jesus, and wrote books about his journey. In fact he ended up giving me five books over the next couple of months by Lewis all of which I still have on the book shelves of my office. The first book was “Screwtape Letters” a fictional story about a demon and his training to become an effective  tempter of people. It was a super funny and enlighting book that I enjoyed very much. We got together and talked about the book and he actually made my time with him and the reading assignments a class that I got credit for and also an “A” for a grade. I actually had a class on spiritual warfare before the term was popular. Professor Noble’s counsel to me was read the Bible a lot and memorize it even if you are having doubts about it. A quote from him was, ” Read the Bible as if you believed it was supernatural in it’s powers to change you, and it won’t be long before it is”. Jesus quoted scripture when He was tempted and the devil left Him. If I do what Jesus did it won’t be long before the devil gives up on me as well. (Part 3 tomorrow)