WHEN TEMPTATION KEEPS KNOCKING

  Thu Sep 22, 2022  

Memorise:
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:1 Peter 5:8

 

Read:   1 Peter 5:8-10

 

Bible In One Year:
Ezekiel 48 - Daniel 2

 

Hymn:
O Worship the King

 

Action Point:
What is that temptation that has been knocking on the door of your heart? Take a bold step today to ensure that you don't fall for it anymore.


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Message

The devil is a very crafty being. When he senses the glorious destiny of a person, he does everything in his power to ensure that the fellow does not fulfil that destiny. He however cannot succeed except the person commits a sin and God leaves the fellow alone. When he heard the dream that Joseph had, he knew that the boy had a glorious destiny so he planned for his brothers to kill him, but somehow God intervened and he was sold into slavery. The devil then arranged for a woman to tempt him, and he said that woman should be no other than Mrs. Potiphar who lived in the same house with him and was not under his control. Everywhere he turned to in the house, the madam was there smiling at him. Many people have lost their destinies this way. The devil arranged for a woman close to them to keep tempting them continually until they fell. The devil did not use the woman they only saw once in a while, he used the one they would see every day because he wanted to take no chances in ensuring that they wouldn't fulfil their glorious destiny. If that temptation keeps knocking, recognise that the devil is up to something and run for your life like Joseph did.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it 1 Corinthians 10:13


Maybe there is a man or lady eyeing you somewhere around your office, or maybe you are constantly tempted to visit pornographic sites; no matter how intense the temptation is, God has provided a way of escape from it. The only problem is that your attention is on the temptation and not on the way of escape. There are people who can help you get out of that tempting situation. There are decisions you can take, though drastic, to free yourself from that temptation. There is always a way of escape.

Don't be too shy to ask for help, don't be too timid to do what has to be done in order not to fall. You must escape the temptation in order to reach your goal. From experience, I can tell you that the more of those temptations you overcome, the closer you will get to your goal.


King James Version

1 Peter 5:8-10

1 Peter 5:8-10
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: [9] Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. [10] But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
RCCG Hymn

O Worship the King

  1. O Worship the King,
    All glorious above,
    O gratefully sing
    His power and His love;
    Our Shield and Defender,
    The Ancient of Days,
    Pavilion'd in splendour
    And girded with praise.
  2. O tell of His might,
    O sing of His grace.
    Whose robe is the light.
    Whose canopy space.
    His chariots of wrath
    The deep thunder-clouds form.
    And dark is His path
    On the wings of the storm.
  3. Thy bountiful care.
    What tongue can recite?
    It breathes in the air,
    It shines in the light.
    It streams from the hills.
    It descends to the plain.
    And sweetly distils
    In the dew and the rain.
  4. frail children of dust.
    And feeble as frail;
    In Thee do we trust,
    Nor hnd Thee to fail;
    Thy mercies, how tender,
    How hrm to the end.
    Our maker. Defender,
    Redeemer, and friend!
  5. O measureless Might!
    Ineffable Love!
    While angels delight
    To hymn Thee above.
    The humbler creation.
    Though feeble their lays.
    With true adoration
    Shall lisp to Thy praise.

 


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