Grace and peace and welcome to the open Heavens Devotional Review, for August 30th 2020.
Topic: HANDLING TEMPTATIONS
Text: James 1:12-15
James 1:12 If your faith remains strong, even while surrounded by life’s difficulties, you will continue to experience the untold blessings of God! True happiness comes as you pass the test with faith, and receive the victorious crown of life promised to every lover of God!
James 1:13-15 When you are tempted don’t ever say, “God is tempting me,” for God is incapable of being tempted by evil and he is never the source of temptation. Instead it is each person’s own desires and thoughts that drag them into evil and lure them away into darkness. Evil desires give birth to evil actions. And when sin is fully mature it can murder you! (The Passion Translation)
Temptations are mere arousals to sin.
It’s the situation where you are drawn by a lust.(James 1:3)
Temptations are don’t just happen, but it is a situation where you are tested in an area of lust.
How do I overcome lust?
*** Submit to the discipline of the spirit of God (He will help you.)
[Romans 6:13-14]
*** Don’t set the affections of your heart on this world or in loving the things of the world. (But on the Love of God) The love of the Father and the love of the world are incompatible. For all that the world can offer us—the gratification of our flesh, the allurement of the things of the world, and the obsession with status and importance—none of these things come from the Father but from the world.( 1 John 2:15-16)
Don’t offer your body to sin but set your consciousness to righteousness
*** Don’t give room for the opportunity. Be principled and flee every appearance of evil (1 Thessalonians 5:22)
For we are His Expression, His Living Letters
(Alive2Christ//alive2Love)