Temptation

God hears and answers our prayers!

Remember, prayer is simply talking to God. Tell him about the battle you are in (temptation, doubt, fear, anxiety).

Here’s the hard truth. Whether the source is the world, the flesh, or the devil, at the end of the day we own our disobedience.

He, who was tempted fully, without sin, will give us all the mercy and grace we need to resist sin as well.

Don’t deny the temptation. Take steps, like Job, to live obediently.

Ask God to check your heart. Examine your sexual temptations that lead to the sins of lust, pornography, and adultery. Examine your materialistic tendencies that lead to the sins of greed and avarice. Examine your areas of personal pride that always go before a fall. Each part of the temptation is dangerous enough.

Our prayers are not for the alteration of the sun’s pattern, but they involve God’s miraculous work just the same - salvation of a loved one, physical healing, strength to be a good witness through an illness, the determination to resist a temptation or the restoration of a relationship. And the miracle is that the holy God hears and answers our prayers.

Jesus’ command to His disciples rings through the ages, “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.” Moment by moment, day by day, watch and pray. Temptation is always around the corner. A fall is only a step away.