HELP LORD, I AM HEAVILY TEMPTED

Post date: Sep 4, 2015 12:08:10 AM

These days you do not need to go too far before seeing temptation staring right at you without blinking or intent of walking pass you; you need not belong to any group or gang before seeing temptation on your door steps knocking as if it owns the house with you; you need not to be involved in any shady deal before you experience what is meant by temptation in the real sense; you need not travel to any other remote country or community before temptation confronts you and challenge everything about you and what you are doing. Temptation has the audacity to share your bedroom, your sitting room, your children’s room, your private room, your visitor’s room, kitchen, and your heart without feeling bad about it or expressing remorse of any kind or apologies to you.

You do not need to be a true or false Christian, an active or partial pagan, a traditionalist, or an athirst before you are severely tempted. Temptation has no respect for your level of education, political or social affiliations, marital status, gender, knowledge, race, nationality, profession and your location. It has no respect for your level of wealth or poverty; it has no respect for the office you occupy, the number of titles before or after your name, and the name or names that you are known and called daily. It had no respect of age whether you are old or young, strong or weak, healthy or sick, whether you are under any form of influence or not. All that temptation seeks to do is to challenge everything in you, everything about you and everything with you. It wants to assess you moral thinking now and use the information it gathers to assess the potentials of your future; it wants to assess your religious beliefs and use it against your God and against your chances in His presence. It wants to assess your level of fidelity, faithfulness, obedience, level of submissiveness, loyalty and commitment to the curse you are pursuing in life and use such information to work against you now and in the future.

The bad news about temptation is that it has rendered many people irrespective of their religious beliefs or affiliation very weak, incapacitated, guilty, fearful, condemned and frustrated in ways they never imagined. The good news about temptation is that there is and will always be a divine way out through the intervention of Christ Jesus our Lord at the times of temptation. In Christ, there will always be a way to deal with temptation rightly without being hurt by it; there will always be a way to overcome its intent in your marriage, home, desires, finances and profession; and there will always be a way to confront it without becoming a victim of its craftiness. It is quite certain no one can run away from being tempted, and it is also certain that we can all have victory whenever we are tempted.

This is how Jesus Christ handled His own temptation. “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil. For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry. During that time the devil came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread. But Jesus told him, No the Scriptures say, People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Then the devil took him to the holy city, Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple, and said, if you are the Son of God, jump off. For the Scriptures say, He will order his angels to protect you. And they will hold you up with their hands so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.  Jesus responded, The Scriptures also say, You must not test the Lord your God. Next the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. I will give it all to you, he said, if you will kneel down and worship me. Get out of here, Satan, Jesus told him. For the Scriptures say, You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him. Then the devil went away, and angels came and took care of Jesus.” Matthew 4:1-11. For prayers, Click here For 2015 Praise and worship Click Here