MATTHEW 6:9-13
- AFTER THIS MANNER THEREFORE PRAY YE: OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME. THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD. AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS. AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL: FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY, FOREVER. AMEN.
- TODAY WE ARE LOOKING AT MATT 6:13
- “AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL, FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY, FOR EVER, AMEN.”
- TEMPTATION IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMILIAR EXPERIENCES OF EVERY TRUE CHILD OF GOD
- BUT SOME OF US SEEM TO BE MUCH MORE TEMPTED THAN OTHERS.
- NO ONE CAN ESCAPE FROM TEMPTATION, EVEN CHRIST WAS TEMPTED.
- THAT’S WHY THE LORD TAUGHT US TO INCLUDE THIS PETITION IN OUR DAILY PRAYER,” AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL”
- TO BE TEMPTED IS NOT A SIN, IT’S YIELDING TO THE TEMPTATION THAT IS SINFUL
- THAT’S WHY YOU NEED TO PRAY MAT.6:13 EACH DAY, FOR EVERY DAY IS LOADED WITH ITS OWN DOSE OF EVIL.
- IF YOU DON’T REMEMBER TO DAILY QUOTE THIS VERSE JUST MAKE SURE THAT YOU SPEAK IN TONGUES DAILY FOR AT LEAST ONE HOUR
- YOU WILL BE STRENGHTENED WITH MIGHT BY THE HOLY GHOST IN YOUR INNERMAN
- JUDE: 20-21 BUT YE, BELOVED, BUILDING UP YOURSELVES ON YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH, PRAYING IN THE HOLY GHOST, KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD, LOOKING FOR THE MERCY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST UNTO ETERNAL LIFE.
- AGAIN JESUS TOLD THE DISCIPLES IN MATT 26:41
- WATCH AND PRAY, THAT YE ENTER NOT INTO TEMPTATION: THE SPIRIT INDEED IS WILLING, BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK
- ALSO IN LUKE 26 JESUS WAS WARNING US ABOUT THE THINGS WE ARE NOW EXPERINCING ON EARTH.
- HE WAS WARNING HIS DISCIPLES ABOUT THE END OF TIMES.
- AND AT THE END OF THAT TEACHING HE EMPHASISED THE NEED TO BE WATCHFUL AND PRAYERFUL
- LUKE 26:31-36 SO LIKEWISE YE, WHEN YE SEE THESE THINGS COME TO PASS, KNOW YE THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NIGH AT HAND.
- 32 VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THIS GENERATION SHALL NOT PASS AWAY, TILL ALL BE FULFILLED.
- 33 HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY: BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY.
- 34 AND TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES, LEST AT ANY TIME YOUR HEARTS BE OVERCHARGED WITH SURFEITING, AND DRUNKENNESS, AND CARES OF THIS LIFE, AND SO THAT DAY COME UPON YOU UNAWARES.
- 35 FOR AS A SNARE SHALL IT COME ON ALL THEM THAT DWELL ON THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH.
- 36 WATCH YE THEREFORE, AND PRAY ALWAYS, THAT YE MAY BE ACCOUNTED WORTHY TO ESCAPE ALL THESE THINGS THAT SHALL COME TO PASS, AND TO STAND BEFORE THE SON OF MAN
- JESUS CONSITENTLY TEACHES US THAT THE SOLUTION TO THE CONSTANT TEMPTATION TO WHICH WE ARE NOW SUBJECTED ON EARTH IS CONSTANT WATCHFULNESS AND PRAYING ALWAYS
- PAUL ALSO SAYS IN 1 THESS,5:17 THAT WE SHOULD PRAY WITHOUT CEASING ,
- THEN IN VERSES 23-24 HE SAYS
- AND THE VERY GOD OF PEACE SANCTIFY YOU WHOLLY; AND I PRAY GOD YOUR WHOLE SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY BE PRESERVED BLAMELESS UNTO THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
- 24 FAITHFUL IS HE THAT CALLETH YOU, WHO ALSO WILL DO IT.
- IF YOU WOULD DAILY PRAY AGAINST TEMPTATION ,NOT ONLY WOULD GOD DELIVER YOU,HE WILL SANCTIFY YOU SPIRIT SOUL AND BODY
- WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? IT SIMPLY MEANS YOU WILL ACQUIRE THE POWER TO RESIST ALL SATANIC TEMPTATIONS
- YOU WILL HAVE POWER OVER THAT SIN YOU ARE NOW STRUGGLING WITH SIMPLY BY PRAYING DAILY IN TONGUES
- YOU WILL ALSO BE READY FOR RAPTURE.YOU WILL BE LIKE THE 5 WISE VIRGINS WHO WERE STRONG AND CONSTANTLY ANOINTED
- WHEN YOU PRAY DAILY AGAINST TEMPTATION, YOU ARE RESISTING SATAN ON A VERY REGULAR BASIS,EVEN BEFORE HE COMES TO TEMPT YOU
- JAMES.1:12 – DO YOU WANT THE CROWN OF LIFE? YOU MUST RESIST THAT DEVIL’S TRICKS EVERY DAY
- APOSTLE PAUL SAYS I DIE DAILY,YOU DARE NOT RELY ON YESTERDAYS VICTORY,YOU WILL BE TAKEN BY SURPRISE
- AS YOU RESIST HIM DAILY, YOU BECOME A VICTOR AND PROGRESSIVELY,YOU WILL BECOME MORE THAN A CONQUEROR.
- 1 COR.10:13 SAYS THAT GOD IS AWARE OF THE REALITY AND DANGER OF TEMPTATION
- AND HE IS WILLING TO HELP YOU ON A DAILY BASIS.
- BUT ARE YOU WATCHFUL? ARE YOU DAILY WATCHING AND PRAYING THAT GOD WOULD KEEP YOU FROM FALLING INTO ANY TEMPTATION?
- IN JOB.1:12 AND JOB 2:6 GOD GAVE SATAN PERMISSION TO TEMPT JOB, BUT STILL NOT BEYOND WHAT HE COULD COPE WITH.
- GOD WAS IN CONTROL OF THE LIFE OF JOB ALL THE TIME.
- JAMES.1:13 TELL US THAT THOUGH GOD CAN ALLOW TEMPTATION, HE IS CERTAINLY NOT THE AUTHOR OF TEMPTATION.
- GOD SOMETIMES ALLOWS TEMPTATION TO TEST OUR FAITH AND OUR OBEDIENCE, TO TEST THE DEPTH OF OUR LOVE AND SINCERITY FOR HIM
- ALSO TO GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO RUN TO HIM FOR RESCUE AND THE DRAW CLOSER TO HIM
- MINISTRATION
- IF YOU HAVE NOT GIVEN YOUR LIFE TO JESUS CHRIST YOU CAN BE SURE THAT YOU CAN NEVER ESCAPE FROM ANY SATANIC TRAPS OR TEMPTATION
- PRAYERS OF SALVATION LET US PRAY
- NOW FELLOW BELIEVERS WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT YOU ARE CONSTANTLY TEMPTED TO DO WHICH YOU HATE TO DO? ROMANS 7:15-25
- Romans 7:15-25
- 15 FOR THAT WHICH I DO I ALLOW NOT: FOR WHAT I WOULD, THAT DO I NOT; BUT WHAT I HATE, THAT DO I.
- 16 IF THEN I DO THAT WHICH I WOULD NOT, I CONSENT UNTO THE LAW THAT IT IS GOOD.
- 17 NOW THEN IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT, BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME.
- 18 FOR I KNOW THAT IN ME (THAT IS, IN MY FLESH,) DWELLETH NO GOOD THING: FOR TO WILL IS PRESENT WITH ME; BUT HOW TO PERFORM THAT WHICH IS GOOD I FIND NOT.
- 19 FOR THE GOOD THAT I WOULD I DO NOT: BUT THE EVIL WHICH I WOULD NOT, THAT I DO.
- 20 NOW IF I DO THAT I WOULD NOT, IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT, BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME.
- 21 I FIND THEN A LAW, THAT, WHEN I WOULD DO GOOD, EVIL IS PRESENT WITH ME.
- 22 FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD AFTER THE INWARD MAN:
- 23 BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW IN MY MEMBERS, WARRING AGAINST THE LAW OF MY MIND, AND BRINGING ME INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN WHICH IS IN MY MEMBERS.
- 24 O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! WHO SHALL DELIVER ME FROM THE BODY OF THIS DEATH?
- 25 I THANK GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. SO THEN WITH THE MIND I MYSELF SERVE THE LAW OF GOD; BUT WITH THE FLESH THE LAW OF SIN.
- ALSO HOW OFTEN ARE YOU TEMPTED TO DOUBT GOD HEB.3:18-19
- AND TO WHOM SWARE HE THAT THEY SHOULD NOT ENTER INTO HIS REST, BUT TO THEM THAT BELIEVED NOT?
- 19 SO WE SEE THAT THEY COULD NOT ENTER IN BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF.:
- HEB 3:7-12
- 7 WHEREFORE (AS THE HOLY GHOST SAITH, TO DAY IF YE WILL HEAR HIS VOICE,
- 8 HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS, AS IN THE PROVOCATION, IN THE DAY OF TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS:
- 9 WHEN YOUR FATHERS TEMPTED ME, PROVED ME, AND SAW MY WORKS FORTY YEARS.
- 10 WHEREFORE I WAS GRIEVED WITH THAT GENERATION, AND SAID, THEY DO ALWAY ERR IN THEIR HEART; AND THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN MY WAYS.
- 11 SO I SWARE IN MY WRATH, THEY SHALL NOT ENTER INTO MY REST.)
- 12 TAKE HEED, BRETHREN, LEST THERE BE IN ANY OF YOU AN EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF, IN DEPARTING FROM THE LIVING GOD
- WHATEVER THE PROBLEM ,JESUS IS THE ANSWER.DONT LET THE DEVIL TEMPT YOU WITH FEAR DOUBT AND UNBELISF ANYMORE