Intimacy with God intimidates the devil, that is why worship is so important.
We make the enemy tired and weary by our joy, we depress him with our grace and mercy and overwhelm him with the fruit of the spirit. We discourage him with our goodness, he doesn’t know how to handle people moving in Jesus. He can’t cope, everything that he is doing to us is only making us bigger and stronger. There is a place set aside for us in the spirit were we rise above everything