1. Your Adversary
And how to defeat him.

2. Your Adversary
1 Peter 5:  Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9  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.

3. Give No Opportunity
Ephesians 4:  BE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27  and do not give the devil an opportunity.

4. The Thief
John 10:  "The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.

5. The Schemes of the Devil
Intimidation – Goal: compromise Source: Focusing on the problem, painting a picture of your impending failure, reminding you of your past.
Isolation – offence, disappointment, shame and guilt and pride.
Insinuation – uses circumstances to get you to believe things about God that are not true.

6. God of No Deviation
James 1:  Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

7. The God of Choice
Deuteronomy 30:  "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,

8. You Make Your Way Prosperous
Joshua 1:8 8  "This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.

9. No Evil
Psalm 91:1 1  He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalm 91:  For you have made the LORD, my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place. 10  No evil will befall you, Nor will any plague come near your tent.

10. What I Fear, Happens
Job 3:  "For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread befalls me.

11. God Has Given The Earth To Us
Psalm 115:  The heavens are the heavens of the LORD; But the earth He has given to the sons of men.

12. The god of This World 2 Corinthians 4:4 …the god of this world ...
John 12:31 …the ruler of this world ...
John 14:30 …the ruler of the world…
John 16:11 …the ruler of this world...

13. The devil’s Boast
Luke 4: And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said to Him, "I will give You all this domain and its glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.

14. Whatever You Bind
Matthew 16:  "And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it. 19  "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."