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Originally posted by FeeFee
On the flip side, when things don't go the way people wanted them to, or if they find themselves in a predicament, they tend to always want to blame the devil. "The devil is trying to attack me, the devil this and the devil that". Sometimes bad things happen to us because of our own foolish actions. If a person has diabetes or hypertension and doesn't change their eating habits and continue to get sick, it's not the devil attacking you! What you need to do is check what's on your plate and make the necessary changes!

If you ask God for his guidance and help, He will do so, but He will not always do the work Himself. Sometimes you have to meet Him halfway. Like the saying goes, "God helps those who help themselves". You can't ask God for example, to help you pass your final exams if you showed up for class only five times in one semester. It just won't happen like that.

Yes Ma'am, yes ma'am. Faith without work is dead, if you don't do what you need to do on your end, He can't help you on His. If God just did it all for us, what would be the point of us being here at all? Don't use "the Devil did it" or "God didn't will it" as an excuse for laziness and inactivity. "God didn't will it" only applies when you try to do something and you work at it and it doesn't come true. For example, in high school, my best friend wanted SO BADLY to have this one position, and he ran TWICE for it and lost each time, he was heartbroken, but I told him that maybe that was not what he was meant to do, so he ran for another postion that he didn't really think of before, but is actually a higher postion. He ran and won, and he loved every minute of his job. So sometimes that statement is valid, but not as an excuse for lazy people.