Take Off the Headband of Hell

Be self-controlled and alert, vigilant so you don’t end up a victim. The enemy would like to eat your life for lunch and if you’re unaware you’re the perfect prey. He seems to be satisfied and consuming in crisis and feeding on fear. Beware of strife because it will slice like a knife and drain your life. You adversary has an agenda and vision to cause division so he can gobble up the pieces. But don’t you know he’s a defeated foe. But even a lame lion gets to sup on the slothful. His saliva is subtle so those who are spiritually sleeping don’t even know until it seems like “suddenly” they’re missing a piece of their soul. If you listen to his lies the toxins of his tongue will maim you mind and make you feel cheated and mistreated. When you begin to lash out at those you love you know something is wrong. You’ve been poisoned, injured and infected by the constrictor’s ill will - put under pressure, overwhelmed with trials and tribulation, it feels like you can’t get any air and you want give up… BUT WAIT! There is an answer!
Call upon God and He will come to your aid. Wake up! Take off the headband of hell. Shake off the affects of a delirious and demented foggy brain designed to restrain. If you think and act like the enemy then the outcome is evil but if you imitate God glorious and victorious. God Himself lives a life of love and will impart His goodness into your heart. By receiving His nature and paying attention to Him you become free form sin and the effects of strife and the wicked life. By God’s grace the enemy has no place, no right to bite, resist him in “steadfast in the faith” and He’s put to flight. To the slithering subversive snake don’t yield but to God’s wonderful Spirit submit and be fulfilled. It’s a choice you make many times a day, good or evil which is your way?

1 Peter 5:8-9
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith…
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1 Peter 5:8-9
8 Keep a cool head. Stay alert. The Devil is poised to pounce, and would like nothing better than to catch you napping. 9 Keep your guard up. You're not the only ones plunged into these hard times. It's the same with Christians all over the world. So keep a firm grip on the faith.
MES

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

1 Peter 5:8
8 Be careful-watch out for attacks from Satan, your great enemy. He prowls around like a hungry, roaring lion, looking for some victim to tear apart.
TLB

1 Peter 5:8-9
8 Be well balanced (temperate, sober of mind), be vigilant and cautious at all times; for that enemy of yours, the devil, roams around like a lion roaring [in fierce hunger], seeking someone to seize upon and devour.
9 Withstand him; be firm in faith [against his onset — rooted, established, strong, immovable, and determined]
AMP

James 4:7-8

7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
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James 4:7
7 Be subject with implicit obedience to God at once and once for all. Stand immovable against the onset of the devil and he will flee from you.
Wuest

James 4:7-8
7 So let God work his will in you. Yell a loud no to the Devil and watch him scamper.
MES

Rom 16:19-20
19 For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil. 20 And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
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Rom 16:19-20
19 And so while there has never been any question about your honesty in these matters — I couldn't be more proud of you! — I want you also to be smart, making sure every "good" thing is the real thing. Don't be gullible in regard to smooth-talking evil. Stay alert like this, 20 and before you know it the God of peace will come down on Satan with both feet, stomping him into the dirt. Enjoy the best of Jesus!
MES

Rom 12:21
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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Eph 5:1-2
5 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
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