What is the book, chapter and verse that states the Devil can hear you pray?
That makes him omnipresent & omniscient and he is not.
I'm not even omnipresent & omniscient and when I hear people speakie the language I speak (broken English)... I can understand what they are saying so we know the devil can to.
The devil was able to understand what Jesus was saying during his attempts to temp Jesus so he can understand what you and I are saying which does not require him to be omnipresent & omniscient.
And, it most likely isn't satan himself standing there listening to us... it's one of his minions who seek to act against us in any way they can so if they can hear what we say, that gives them a heads up on what we are doing.
Well this is something new, so people pray in tongues so that the devil does not understand the prayer.
Is there a scripture for that?
Why, yes... yes there is:
Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:14, "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." This lack of discernment or comprehension would apply even more to the devil. When you speak in tongues you speak TO GOD in a "mystery." In 1 Corinthians 14:2, For he who speaks in a tongue does not SPEAK TO men but to GOD, for NO ONE UNDERSTANDS HIM (including the devil) however, in the spirit he speaks MYSTERIES."
1 Corinthians 2:7-12 says, "But we speak the wisdom of God in a MYSTERY the HIDDEN WISDOM which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which NONE of the RULERS (including the devil) of this age KNEW; ...For what man knows the things of a man EXCEPT THE SPIRIT OF THE MAN which is in him? Even so NO ONE KNOWS the things of God EXCEPT the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God."
Mystery in Greek is "bathos." It also means "deep." It means it cannot be judged or discerned outside the spirit of man. God only reveals mysteries to our spirit.
Reminds me of people who used to wear amulets tucked in their clothes to protect them from evil spirits.
Is there a scripture for that too?
Not sure, but there is scripture for stupidity!
No scripture, only Suggestionen
And. there's one demonstration of ignorance... ignorance as in choosing to not beloeve what God's Word says!