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Luke 22:40 b - Pray that you may not enter into temptation.
Temptation from without would not endanger us if there were not evil in our hearts. We ask to be delivered from it, draw us away from the evil. We say,
quite away from it, away from evil of every kind, away from the power of the evil one, away from the defiling contact with evil in the world, away from the snares of those sins which so easily beset us.
There is evil all around us. The evil one is always alluring us with his accursed temptations. The world is very evil and wicked. Our own heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, our will is weak an corrupted. There is a need for a greater than our own to draw us away from the dominion of the strong arm man, there is a need of a mighty counteracting attraction to draw us away from the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eye, and the pride of life.
That Power is the grace of God, His is the Kingdom and the Power. That attraction is the love of Christ, the constraining influence of the cross, "Draw me" we will run after thee. This prayer pledges us to follow the drawing of God, to enter into the Lord's battle against the devil, the world, and the flesh.
We pray daily to be delivered from evil, we must strive against it, fighting the good fight of faith.
Be Careful for nothing
Be Prayful for everything
Be Thankful for anything
In His Service
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Temptation from without would not endanger us if there were not evil in our hearts. We ask to be delivered from it, draw us away from the evil. We say,
quite away from it, away from evil of every kind, away from the power of the evil one, away from the defiling contact with evil in the world, away from the snares of those sins which so easily beset us.
There is evil all around us. The evil one is always alluring us with his accursed temptations. The world is very evil and wicked. Our own heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, our will is weak an corrupted. There is a need for a greater than our own to draw us away from the dominion of the strong arm man, there is a need of a mighty counteracting attraction to draw us away from the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eye, and the pride of life.
That Power is the grace of God, His is the Kingdom and the Power. That attraction is the love of Christ, the constraining influence of the cross, "Draw me" we will run after thee. This prayer pledges us to follow the drawing of God, to enter into the Lord's battle against the devil, the world, and the flesh.
We pray daily to be delivered from evil, we must strive against it, fighting the good fight of faith.
Be Careful for nothing
Be Prayful for everything
Be Thankful for anything
In His Service
Doc
