@humanearl, I know you must have experienced this, but from my experience too, I have found out that the devil has no good intention for me. Satan tempts people to sin against God.
This is what he did unsuccessfully to Jesus in the wilderness — he wanted him to abandon the path of suffering and obedience.
This is what he did successfully to Judas in the last hours of Jesus’s life.

2 Corinthians 11:3 : “I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.”
Paul warns against this for all the believers, that they should not be ignorant of the devils schemes.

To resist the devil, James says,
“Resist the devil, and he will flee from you!” (James 4:7). How do we do that? Here is how they did it according to Revelation 12:11: “They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.” They embraced the triumph of Christ by his blood. They spoke that truth in faith. They did not fear death. And they triumphed.