When you call on the Lord in distress, He hears you and answers you.

Psalm 118:5 (KJV) – I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.

You believe you have love . . . That’s God.

You don’t believe you have power . . . God gave it to you.

Yet, you have fear . . . God didn’t give you that.

II Timothy 1:7 (KJV) – for God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

God wants us to live a life of abundance.

Jesus came so we can have it.

John 10:10 (KJV) – the thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

God gave us free will.

The choice to choose right from wrong, life or death.

Yet, He loves you enough to tell you the right choice to choose . . . . LIFE!

Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJV) – I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

When satan is attacking you, remember . . . He can handle you.

He can’t handle God.

James 4:7 (KJV) – submit yourselves therefore unto God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Whoever your father is, you will believe and do what He says.

Who do you believe, and who are you obeying? God or satan?

John 8:44-45 (KJV) – ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not.

We all want to see change – something better.

Stop trying to be like the world and change your thinking.

Then, you can prove to others what God’s will is . . . TRANSFORMATION!

Romans 12:2 (KJV) – and be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

We, the people, try to find ways to reduce or stop crime

It’s simple, yet hard in the flesh.

RENEW YOUR MIND . . .

Ephesians 4:22-23 (KJV) – that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

We try to fight off satan ourselves – in our own strength.

We don’t have the power to do that.

Submit to God, and he will provide you the power to fight off Satan.

James 4:7 (KJV) – submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Envy aches for something someone else has.

It steals your joy from appreciating what you already have and puts bitterness in your heart.

Envy is rotten to the bone.

Proverbs 14:30 (KJV) – a sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.