--THE DEVIL IS REAL! / JEHOVAH GOD IS KING!
[Choose for yourselves today who you will serve, as for me and my house we will serve the Lord." --(JOSHUA 24:15)~~]

--WATCH OUT!
"Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world."
---(1 Peter 5:8-9)--

--I grew up in warm southern cities, so when I moved north, it took me a while to learn how to drive safely during the long, snowy months. During my first hard winter, I ended up stranded in a snowdrift three times! But after several years of practice, I began to feel comfortable driving in wintry conditions. In fact, I felt a little too comfortable. I stopped being as vigilant. And that’s when I hit a patch of black ice and skidded into a telephone pole on the side of the road!

Thankfully, no one was hurt, but I learned something important that day. I realized how dangerous it can be to feel comfortable. Instead of being watchful, I had gone on “autopilot.”

We need to practice that same kind of vigilance in our spiritual lives. Peter warns believers not to glide thoughtlessly through life, but to “be alert” (1 Peter 5:8). The devil is actively trying to destroy us, and so we too need to be active, resisting temptation and standing firm in our faith (v. 9). That’s not something we have to do on our own though. God promises to be with us in our sufferings and, ultimately, to make us “strong, firm and steadfast” (v. 10). By His power, we learn to remain watchful and alert in resisting evil and following Him.

"Father God, keep me from growing lazy or too comfortable in my spiritual life. Help me to remain watchful and alert so that I can resist temptation! In Jesus Name, Amen.~"
--ODB/AP
[ --- Friends, today we hear many people say, "Oh, I don't believe in the devil." They are seriously opening a door for him to enter into their lives. Jesus came and died specifically to defeat the devil. Jesus died on the Cross for the forgiveness of our sins. When Jesus said, "It is finished", He was saying to the Father, that He had come to conquer death, by dying on the Cross, yet rose from the grave. Jesus is ALIVE right now! He is with us in Spirit and Truth. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." -(John 14:6)
There is no other way to come to the Father. Because He is holy, righteous, and just, Jesus came to Earth to pave the Way for us to approach the Father, through Him. Please, if you have not yet asked Jesus to come into your life, confess your sins, repent and ask the Lord Jesus to come into your life. Tomorrow may be too late. We sincerely see the signs of the times all around us. "No one knows the day or hour the Son of Man will return." --(Matthew 24:42, 43, 44).

"That if you confess with you mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved:
"For with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation." --(Romans 10:9-10) ]