In a Forest Service tower a lookout watches for smoke. Once seen, he calls it in to the Forest Dispatch Center. A small Forest Service engine might be sent to monitor the fire, if the area is still wet from a storm, if the cause is from lightning.
If the engine crew sees the fire spreading too far and too fast, it will call for additional fire crew and begin to suppress it.
This last week I listened to one of Pastor Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s newly discovered sermons. He’d titled it Watchfulness. Just as a forest lookout has various tools to employ, so has a Believer. Pastor MLJ gives us four: Reading and studying the Bible; don’t believe all spirits; pray to not faint—lose hope and courage—and pray for self; and to examine one’s self.
As to the devil’s strategies, Pastor says they are routes of attack that include: our minds, which is our knowledge; they are experiential, that is in the realm of feelings, emotions, desires; our practice, which is the things we do and don’t do.
According to Pastor Martyn Lloyd-Jones, the primary attack is through throwing us off balance. For instance, we begin to feel we aren’t doing enough, not involved enough, in Christian Service. We push to do more. We become out of balance in our lives by excluding other important things, such as family and friends. We may become exhausted, and then become ill.
https://www.mljtrust.org/sermons/book-of-ephesians/watchfulness/
Jonah’s Song 