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S.E.E.D. For Today_Temptation

 Scripture "Pray that you will not give into temptation." Luke 22:40 NLT

 Upon arriving at the Mount of Olives, Jesus exhorts the disciples to pray that they not enter into temptation, probably because of His earlier discussion with Simon Peter, that He has prayed that the devil not swift him as wheat. Jesus knows that the disciples will deny Him, a very real danger since Satan is trying to lead them to defect. Prayer will protect them from unfaithfulness and will encourage them to be faithful and persevere. Prayer is important and this is the constant attitude that Jesus needs the disciples to have. In 22:46 "Jesus ask them why are you sleeping, get up and pray that you will not fall into temptation". In Matthew 26:41 He tells them again to "pray so that they will not fall into temptation. "The spirit is willing, but the body is weak." In Mark 14:38 He tells them the same, it is repeated in the tree gospels repeating the call to pray that they will not fail when temptation presents itself.

   Example To be entice or lured, attracted or seduced into something, especially to evil and drawn by our lust or desires.


   Exercise Read Luke, 22:3-40, Matthew 26:41 and Mark 14:38, compare all three and take in the message that they are all trying to tell the reader. Jesus concern for His disciples was knowing their frailty at a very crucial moment in all their lives. Jesus our Intercessor pleads for us in prayer that our faith not fail us as He did for Peter. "There is no temptation that is not common to man, that with it God will make a means of escape". Prayer warns us, it speaks to us, instructs us for our improvement.


   Devotion Lord today lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil and the evil one. I pray that my faith not fail me for I know that Satan desires to sift me as wheat. Strengthen me that I not be lured or enticed by my lust and my desires. I pray that I not sleep, but remain awake and alert in prayer that temptation will not overcome me and have its way, prayer be my attitude in Jesus Name Amen.








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