Today's
Gospel Truth ~ "For this cause, when I
could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the
tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain." 1 Thessalonians 3:5
Before the act of sin
a seed is sown, before the seed is sown there must be an environment for it to
take root and grow in, which comes through a thought of negativity that has
been embedded in the mind. As Believers,
we will not only have days filled with hope and joy but we will experience
challenges and we will face temptations.
Just as having a negative thought, temptation is not the sin but it
becomes sin when we act on the thought or the temptation. We can avoid committing the sin of temptation
by resisting it, after a period of time such thoughts won't even occupy space
in our minds because of our immediate response to resist it.
Temptation is a very
subtle trick the enemy uses on everyone, his purpose is to increase doubt in
your heart and decrease your belief of what God has said to you and what the
Word says about you, so that you will take your eyes of God who has given you his
promise. Satan's objective is to
actually see every Believer broken and destroyed because they stand for and
love God instead of him. Nevertheless,
the power to overcome temptation is within each of us which we received thru
the Blood of Jesus. Jesus gave us the
easiest method for overcoming this conniving scheme which is to simply resist
it using the Word. When we use the Word
of God to combat temptation it frees us from failure and at the same time it
will restore us into wholeness. When you
feel like temptation is getting the upper hand on you, remember the good you
have invested for God and resist it so that your labor won't be in vain. **AMEN**
"Watch
and pray, that ye enter not into temptation:
the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." Matthew 26:41
"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from
you." James 4:7
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