1Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Satan s most successful scheme is convincing most people that he doesn t even exist!

Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Isaiah 14:12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!

Revelation 12:3-4 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. 4 His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth.

John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy ;

Satan is neither funny nor phony. He is real.

1Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

1Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. We are in a battle.

1Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. We are in a battle. We have a clear and identifiable enemy.

1Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. We are in a battle. We have a clear and identifiable enemy. Our enemy has a battle plan.

THREE STRATEGIC RESPONSES Be self-controlled and alert 1Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

1Peter 5:8 Keep a cool head. Stay alert. -The Message

THREE STRATEGIC RESPONSES Be self-controlled and alert 1Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Matthew 3:17 And a voice from heaven said, This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Matthew 4:1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.

THREE STRATEGIC RESPONSES Be self-controlled and alert 1Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

THREE STRATEGIC RESPONSES Be self-controlled and alert Resist him 1Peter 5:9 Resist him,

Colossians 2:15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

James 4:7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

THREE STRATEGIC RESPONSES Be self-controlled and alert Resist him Stand firm in the faith 1Peter 5:9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith,

Matthew 4:1-3 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.

Matthew 4:4 Jesus answered, It is written: Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.

Matthew 4:5-6 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6 If you are the Son of God, he said, throw yourself down. For it is written: He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

Matthew 4:7 Jesus answered him, It is also written: Do not put the Lord your God to the test.

Matthew 4:8-9 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 All this I will give you, he said, if you will bow down and worship me.

Matthew 4:10 Jesus said to him, Away from me, Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.

1Peter 2:23 When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.

Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.

Galatians 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

1Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Ephesians 6:13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

1Peter 5:9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

1Peter 5:10-11 And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 11 To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.