To influence or be influenced

"Satan uses whatever he can to influence us away from God."

Because.

"Man stood in the place of intimacy that he had lost."

"The devil is all about influence. His desires is to have us take our eyes off God and put them on ourselves.....Our enemy encourages and influences us to move into this same self-willed way. We are more concerned about "I will" than about God's will. So we spend our lives, inside and outside the church, getting what we will."

".....If they can, Satan's host will divert us from giving glory to God and cause us to believe that we are not as close to Him as we think we are."

"Satan lost his place and wants us to lose ours as well"

But.

"Those who have accepted God's grace cannot be separated from Him."

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:35-39