TEMPTATIONS

Can you remember the last time you were tempted and fell?

Try remembering the last time you equally were tempted and did not fall.

Have you noticed the two striking words?-STAND AND FALL.

It’s the same person, possibly same issues with different results.

There are two interests at war within you, Good and Bad or God and the Devil.

There’s a tussle for the ownership and lordship of your soul, of which the devil will do anything to possess it. Main while God has done all there is to possess your soul.


Imagine the concept of buying and selling, you have offers ranging from bread, the world, its glory within and all glossy protection proposals coming from the devil were as God offers everything the devil will not and cannot offer: Son ship, relationship and fellowship amidst eternity all at the cost of believing that Jesus is Gods son and is come in the flesh, died and rose the third day. Now living forever. All expense paid in full at his cost.


This offers are placed before you, choice is necessary and you are responsible for your choice.

What do you do?
I define choice as an interest highlighted above other options by an individual. When people make choices, they consider the commitment that comes with it. We all know that human nature prefers anything cheap above difficult. This gets us into another phase, how do you define cheap and diccicult?

Is it cheap because it looks good and appealing to your sight or is it because it seems to meet your immediate emotional and sensational needs? If so then Eve should have received a pat on the back for eating the apple against all instructions.

Or is it difficult/expensive because you can’t understand why you should undergo such a rigorous process when there are seemingly cheaper options. Well if so then the children of Israel need not run round the wilderness for frothy years just to get into cannan.Or a better example could be that you could refuse to wash your dirty hands before eating.

The idea of cost in the things of the Spirit can be very slippery, most times, Gods gift and ways never look as good as we expect. God says that my ways are not your ways neither are my thought your thoughts. But as far as the heavens are from the earth, so are Gods ideas about life different from ours and I bet you that the same applies to the devil. The many gifts and interest he seems to have in you is an attempt to entice you to destruction. Be careful.

As a child of God the only way to stand against the devil in the days of temptation is to dwell in the secrete place of prayer, that’s the presence of God.

If you study the scriptures properly, you’ll see that before the arrest of JESUS he insisted on several occasions that his disciples pray to avoid falling into temptations but as usual, they slept. Similarly most of us are sleeping away our life and falling to every form of temptations.

Most time, we tend to brag to be able to do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Peter had barely finish declaring how he will die with Jesus when a little girl that could possibly do him no harm asked to know if he was one of the disciples of Jesus and he vehemently denied. You and I deny Him every day because we refuse to heed the master’s advice.

A Christian that will have dominion must be prayerful at all times. The bible says draw near to God and he will draw near to you. As you pray regularly, your thinking and your mind is transformed and with that comes a newness of purpose and choice pattern thereby making it possible to overcome temptations.

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