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STRAY TEMPTATION Saturday 14 July

Open Heavens Devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye

Memorise: Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure. 1 Timothy 5:22

Read: 2 Samuel 11:1-5

It will shock you to know that it is easier to manage lack and hardship than to manage abundance and pleasure. If you live in a single room in a “face-me-I-face-you” building (building with multiple tenants of low-income class), it is easier for you to wake up and pray even at night than when you live in an expensively furnished bedroom with water bed in a mansion overseeing the sea. When you want to get up to pray in such a house, the comfort of the bed will motivate you to sleep some more. Before you know it, it will be dawn. Let us take the case of David as an example (2 Samuel 11:1; 12:14.) While David was being chased from cave to cave, he had no time to think of committing adultery, but after being crowned king and baptized into comfort, when he should have been at war, he was resting and so he saw what he should not have seen and got into trouble.

It is important to be where God wants you to be always. During evangelism, He expects you to be in the field witnessing to souls. During rehearsal time or Sunday school preparatory class, God expects you there if you are a teacher. He expects you in service during the time for service. Any time you are not where God expects you to be, you open yourself to see or encounter what you should not, and you may find yourself in trouble. Do you know what the devil could have planned for one of David’s servants who stayed in the palace to be the one to see the naked Beersheba? But because David was in the wrong place, he got trapped by this temptation. Many people, like David, have entered into trouble not planned for them and became victims of stray temptations. One way to avoid this is by being where God wants you to be at every point in time. But even when confronted with such temptations, know that God’s grace is sufficient to overcome all temptations. Ask God to guide your steps aright from today.

PRAYER POINT:
Father, order my steps according to your will and Word. Let me be where you want me to be at every point in time.
 
Bible in one year: Luke 22-24

Comments

  1. Mr LanceJuly 14, 2012 at 7:05 AM

    As Christians we shuold try to forget our God either when things are bad or not. Staying in d house of God or doing things in d right way will bring us closer to God and keep us away from sins.Thank u

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  2. DebbieJuly 14, 2012 at 7:17 AM

    Lord, help me!

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  3. AnonymousJuly 14, 2012 at 7:57 AM

    Each time we fall, if we fall, we should remember that we have an Advocate with the father and ask for His help. Never remain in a fallen state for too long, the times are evil. God wil kip us all in Jesus Name Amen!

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  4. athekame josephJuly 14, 2012 at 8:14 AM

    lord, other my step to the place you have prepared for me ijn amen.

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  5. AnonymousJuly 14, 2012 at 8:40 AM

    Order my steps o lord according to ur word and deliver me 4rm my past and present mistakes IJN Amen.

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  6. anigwe ngoziJuly 14, 2012 at 11:14 AM

    Lord plz help us not 2 fall n2 avoidable sins n Jesus name. Amen

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  7. AnonymousJuly 14, 2012 at 2:40 PM

    Lord have mercy on me! For I have sinned

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  8. AdekemiJuly 14, 2012 at 4:07 PM

    Lord please don't let me depart from Your presence for once please order my step IJN Amen.

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