We try to do everything in our own strength.

Be strong in the Lord and in his power.

Not your own.

Ephesians 6:10 (KJV) – finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Your whole job is to fear God in reference to him, and be obedient by keeping His commandments.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 (KJV) – let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

King Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived.

He asked God for discernment, and God gave it.

There was none wiser before him, and will be none wiser after him.

I Kings 3:12 (KJV) – behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

Its bad enough, we want to hate our enemies, let alone like them.

You are to love them.

Luke 6:27 (KJV) – but I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.

We put our faith in man’s wisdom.

Your faith should be in the power of God.

I Corinthians 2:5 (KJV) – that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Satan is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

He will look like what you think you want . . . but it’s not.

Hebrews 7:15 (KJV) – beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Many say, it’s okay to tell a little white lie.

But it’s not.

There’s no truth in a lie.

I John 2:21 (KJV) – I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because you know it and that no lie is of the truth.

If you don’t know Jesus, you can’t get to the Father.

He’s the only way to the Father.

John 14:6 (KJV) – Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

We try to handle things on our own, without God.

He is the one that makes things happen.

Be still and know who God is.

Psalm 46:9-10 (KJV) – He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

If you’re walking with Christ, the things you once did, you won’t do anymore.

You’ve become a new person.

I Corinthians 5:17 (KJV) – therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.