PRAY TO NOT BE TEMPTED!
Jesus tells us to pray “DAILY” asking God “DO NOT LEAD US
INTO TEMPTATION” [Mt 6:11-13 NKJ]{Lk 11:4}. Jesus
understood how important this request can be as He was led by
God’s “Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil”
[Mt 4:1 NKJ] at the beginning of His ministry. Yes, Jesus
overcoming being tempted helped Him be stronger in His ministry
but we should not seek such testing when it is not initiated by God
or we may risk offending God by putting “GOD TO THE TEST”
[Mt 4:7 NI]. God can help us from temptation many ways such as
not realizing we have an opportunity to sin or not being in a
situation where we could sin or simply not having a desire to sin or
preventing others from encouraging us to sin, etc. Later when we
realize we were prevented from sin by lack of realization or
awareness or desire etc we need to praise God for keeping us from
temptation and answering our “DAILY” prayer and for delivering
“US FROM EVIL”, instead of regretting missing the opportunity
to sin. One of simplest acts of showing our love for Jesus is by
obeying His “TEACHING” [Jn 14:23 NI] and praying the daily
prayer He teaches us to pray. Do you pray against temptation?
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