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Nevertheless the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you. (Deuteronomy 23:5 NKJV)

We are not controlled by what the devil does or does not do, we are controlled by our faith - Jesus said it is to us according to our faith. Here again in Isaiah:

It shall not stand,
Nor shall it come to pass
...If you will not believe,
Surely you shall not be established
- Isaiah 7:7,9

Above all else, guard your heart
For it is the wellspring of life
-- Proverbs 4:23

Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord your God be a faithful witness against us if we refuse to obey whatever he tells us to do!

Whether we like it or not, we will obey the Lord our God to whom we are sending you with our plea.

For if we obey him, everything will turn out well for us.”
-- Jeremiah 42:5-6

‘Call to me and I will answer you 
and tell you great and unsearchable things 
you do not know. -- Jeremiah 33:3

The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”

Rom 4:15

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord : and I will turn away your captivity (Jeremiah 29:11-14 KJV)

And I will give them an heart to know me,
that I am the Lord : and they shall be my people,
and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
(Jeremiah 24:7 KJV)

"Is not My word like a fire?"
Says the LORD
"And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?"
-- Jeremiah 23:29

But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: 
therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: 
they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper:
their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
 
But, O Lord of hosts, that triest the righteous, 
and seest the reins and the heart, 
 let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
-- Jeremiah 20:11-12

For the LORD God is a sun and shield
The LORD bestows favor and honor
No good thing does He withhold
From those whose walk is blameless
--Psalm 84:11

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will guide you with My eye.
--Psalm 32:8

As for me, I have not hurried away from
being a shepherd who follows You
--Jer 17:16