Is the devil real?

How has life been for you lately? The world has gotten so depressing that most of my friends resort to watching reality garbage on T.V. to keep their mind off their own troubles. Is THIS all there is? I used to read my horoscope thinking I could find an answer to what my purpose in life was.  Let me tell you…this stuff ‘innocent stuff’ is nothing to joke with.  Your eternal future is at stake. Even when you ‘have it all’, according to the world’s standards, there is an emptiness inside that screams for more.  Do not try to fill it with ‘innocent entertainment.’  Fill it with substance.  Fill it with the truth.  “Be sober.  Be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour.”1 Peter 5:5 If what we invest in the natural will reap returns, why do we question that the same will not happen in the spiritual? “Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Gal. 6:7 Playing with the occult is placing a curse upon yourself and your family and their future.  I did this, and I became demon possessed.  God saved me, but what I went through was hell on earth.  I would not wish this on anyone, even a stranger I have never met. (you) “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Rom. 6:23 The despair of feeling so hopeless and disabilitated by severe health conditions the demonic realm brought upon me, caused me to desperately search the very Bible I had mocked in the past. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  John 3:16  I decided that ‘my way’ was not working for me anymore.  I chose God’s way.  I chose life.  I confessed my sins, turned from continuing to do things that I knew in my heart were wrong, and I am now free from the bondage of possession, depression and a life threatening illness.  The most awesome part of it all is that I have an understanding of what life is all about now…it is NOT about me.  It is about following the plan of life that God laid out clearly for all of us in the greatest book of all, the Bible.  I highly recommend that book of wisdom over any flaky horoscope reading.  It is your choice, your life…your ETERNAL destiny. Choose wisely.  You cannot do a ‘do over’ after you die.