Alright! I finally came up with a topic for a good post. The idea came when a friend of mine asked what is a good way to deal with temptation. That question is going to be the basis of this post.
I gave two ways, 1. Pray for strength from God. Most people would see that as a good start. But where it becomes more difficult is number 2. For the 2nd way, I said memorizing scripture, now I'm sure that most of you will agree it's difficult to take the time. But the usefulness is so abundant. Memorizing scripture especially verses dealing with what your fighting against will greatly aid you. The Bible says " For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12) 2 Timothy also says " All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." "How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word." Psalms 119:9 There you have it people, take up your sword, because that's what gift God has given us to battle temptation with.
Now all of you read that, please oh please do pester me constantly to make sure that I'm doing what I've written, because I don't want to be a hypocrite.
And don't worry I'm not going to leave you guys with just "memorize," there are ways of making it easier. However I don't have the time to write it all down, so here are a couple of links.
http://www.geocities.com/johndavidmueller/Scripture_Memory.html
http://www.fbcdurham.org/writings/Scripmem.htm
I hope this blesses you all!
8 comments:
yay new post! and a very good one. so true all of that, but one thing i might add is accountability. find someone who knows you very well (perhaps your parents or best friend) and confide your struggles in them. then they can be there as a constant reminder that someone is helping you and watching your progress. sometimes it is hard to just be accountable to God because he does not always speak audibly, or whatever reason someone could come up with.
sorry that was long ;)
Thank you, "you know who" It doesn't really matter if it was that long. But I just want to make a shout out to William. Today, the 21st of July is his birthday! So.. Happy Birthday William!
happy birthday! how old are you?
Thanks, Stephan.
And Bri, I'm 18.
All that you said is very true. Too often we try to resist sin on our own. Trying to think of something else,keeping busy... etc. But our thoughts will keep coming back to thing thing we know we shouldn't do or think about, if we don't take the temtation to Our Father in prayer.
Thank God we can do nothing on our own!! That keeps us wanting HIM always!!
An aside peoples I found Linda Cochran's blogger it is: http://arrowsvbspiker12.blogspot.com
so let her get lots of new comments. And go Katina for giving her the advice to get one. She's given you the credit for why she has one!
Linda needs to make her blog where anyone can commen't on it...
luv ya jessi! if its ok with stephan, you can say hi once and a while here.. im doing ok, but of course i miss everybody like a crazy lot! =)
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