You cloak external forces with a power they do not possess when you blame them for your state in life. Life does not happen to you. Life reacts to you. Think about it. If at all evil people and circumstances have the ability to stop people's progress, there will be no successful people on Earth. They do not have that authority. The only power they have is the power that you willingly submit to them. If satan appears before you and you refuse to be afraid, he will run. Without fear, he cannot harm you, just as God will not intervene in your situation without faith. You are the one with the power. It is in your mind. As the mind goes, so goes the man!