Proverbs 5

Proverbs 5. Temptations! Where would we be without them?

Chapter 5 is a MUST read!

"1 My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
2 that you may keep  discretion, and your lips may  guard knowledge.
3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil..."


This entire chapter focuses on 'temptation' and how to not follow it to our destruction!
Note verse 3 and the word, "forbidden!"  Why is it that which we know is wrong, bad for, and forbidden has such a powerful allure?  A proverb we will come to later openly declares, "Stolen bread eaten in secret is sweet indeed!"  A relationship we know is wrong, has such a dynamic, obsessive pull in us because it has a demonic anointing on it that feeds our flesh and our soul nature to have that which has been declared off limits!

Lucifer did it! Eve did it, and if honesty prevailed, we have all gone after that which we knew was "forbidden!"

How do you not give in to the physical, emotional and mental powerful pull of temptation?  At first, it will probably the greatest struggle of your life; the parts of you that has been feasting on the forbidden will cry out, demand and justify that the need is legitimate!  Demonic spirits will feed these ungodly flames and begin to torment your thought life. But God is more powerful than any temptation, temptress, or tormentor!

1. Study the Scripture. They will guide and strengthen you.
2. Flee places and people who you know are temptations to you
3. Pray!  Be honest with God about your struggles. He knows anyway but is waiting for you to ask and receive His strength
4. Get an accountability partner, someone who loves you but will address head on your walk and actions, as well as pray with and for you!
5.  Be in church every time the doors are open and live at the altar!
6.  Read the Word as a starving man. Gone are the times of picking and choosing what you want to read or listen to, you are in a fight for your eternal soul!
7. Finally, count the cost!  What will those brief moments of pleasure cost you?  Do not be deceived, they will cost you--and those you love!


This is Pastor John reminding you to Read the Word and apply it to your life!  You will be glad you did!

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