Fighting Temptation - Introduction

Wow! It's been God all these while. I had so many revelations; (It's just two x_x) I thank God for His grace over me and YOU. Remember that God loves.

My first revelation was about if there was life after death; today in church - a verse was reviewed to me. Job 14:14

"If a human being dies, will he live again?"

Basically, Job was asking God questions about all His ordeal. This particular phrase will be best understood if read from chapter 13-14 of Job.

My second revelation, this was frightful; it's a case of arrest. Let me stop here and talk to my Maker more about it. :)

I got to church early as usual, working to make sure the house of my Maker is lovely, because I'm a back-door worker x_x (let's not talk about this, I've my reason). Suddenly a song came up through the sound engineer, am a first timer to that song; it's titled 'My Praise by Cobhams Asuquo, Gabriel and Joel Benson (it can be downloaded here) I love this song - every praise is to my God.

Fighting temptation, this is my 7-series have been talking about and it's been introduced now :D. We have so many challenges in living holy because we live in an unholy world. There are so many things that wants to stop your walk with God, most especially those things that you use to do before you gave your life to Christ.

Fighting temptation shows a battle that is as much spiritual as it is emotional or physical. Jesus was tempted! So don't be an exception of temptation. It happens when there is an opportunity to do wrong, whether negating God's wish, ours, or others. Everyone is tempted and at different levels.

Most people confuse temptation with God's testing of our hearts, but they are very different. Most times, it can be both! God's testing is the opportunity to do what please Him. Proverbs 17:3 (NLT) says, "fire test the purity of silver and gold, but the Lord tests the heart". When God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham was being tested - both his heart to obey God and his ability to trust Him (Genesis 22).

In Matthew 26:41 (NLT), Jesus said "keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak."

Hear what Paul was saying to the Corinth in 1 Cor 10:13 (NIV), "No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it."

My God is a faithful one, He will never put you there and leave you to suffer.

Do have a great week. To be continued....

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