Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.(Hebrews 3:12 – ESV)
When temptation comes, you will either dwell on the thought, or pray, as you ought. When you dwell on a thought, the thought dwells in you. The devil’s delight is for you to look at that thing and become intoxicated with it, or fear of losing it, or despair of defeat from it. Don’t let the devil have a place inside your head. Don’t magnify his words and let them develop into your will (James 1:14-16), magnify the Word of God in those moments of evil desire.
The longer you look at the giant the bigger he becomes, the longer you pray to God the closer He becomes. When the temptation comes and what is in front of you seems too big that is when you want to draw back, to let go, to give in to unbelief and feel temporal relief, to be rid of the pressure and to find temporary peace. But it is a false peace. Until you kill that thing it will come back time and again.
Most people will just let the enemy have an outpost as long as they don’t have to battle with him. You think you cannot overcome it and it is true in your flesh you cannot, just as the Israelites couldn’t overcome the giants in the natural unless God had enabled them to be able to. God was for them, and is for you if will but draw near to God when faced with the giant temptations to draw back. They should cause you to realize that you must draw near to God or you will be consumed by the enemy (1 Peter 5:8).
4 comments:
If we would spend a fraction of the time battling against sin instead of making provision for it we would have victory over it more often than not.
WOW! Good Post!
MrsEvenso - Right on. Kinda like witnessing. If we would only spend a fraction of our time witnessing, the fear would be completely gone.
Truth...the soil you till is in the garden that grows...
Very well written and great comments.
The only thing that comes to mind would be putting up an electrical fence to keep the lion out of the garden. :) IPeter 5:8
I'm glad your posting on this topic, JD, it gives me more encouragment.
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