Keep Watch!

Keep Watch!
We understand that our flesh is weak and it's predisposed to selfish behavior. We are instructed to pray and resist all temptations. We must keep watch over our heart, soul, and mind.

Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak!”
Matthew 26:41

Like in many other places throughout the bible, the words 'keep watch,' does not instruct us to look for an external threat, rather an internal threat. Keep yourself in check (aligned yourself in God's truth). Jesus instructed us to make the kingdom our priority in life and then all things will be added.

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“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”​

Matthew 6:33-34
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Have you set your priorities in life in order. You must seek the Kingdom of God and all of its righteousness as your number one priority. Once you have God first then you have indeed stood watch over your heart, forever changing it along with your priorities.

We must not succumb to temptation.
"Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." James 4:7

Be strong. Pray to God for strength.
Keep watch!

 

[beauté de l'intérieur]

I remember feeling overwhelming heaviness and temptation when I starting trying to walk with God. I prayed to be able to just see above the waters, keep my head above the waves. Now I pray that my family will walk on water. When we watch and pray, our confidince in God increases as we see Him rescue us from temptation over and over.

 

[Brother in Christ (JC)]

I remember feeling overwhelming heaviness and temptation when I starting trying to walk with God. I prayed to be able to just see above the waters, keep my head above the waves. Now I pray that my family will walk on water. When we watch and pray, our confidince in God increases as we see Him rescue us from temptation over and over.

Amen Beauté de l'intérieur. My life was such a mess and I struggled with Christianity back in the day. I was put through the proverbial pressure cooker but through the Love of God, I came out a better person. Resist the devil and he will flee! Thank you for sharing.
❤❤❤

 

[Wylandadh]

Thanks for the reminder. I still find it so hard to resist temptation of smoking tobacco and find it extremely hard to fast. I have been trying to walk seriously with Jesus the last year or two and He has helped me overcome sexual desire, marijuana, i have fallen back into alcohol a couple of times but im feeling more prepared for that now and i no longer have any desire for secular music or television but i still feel so bound especially also with my thoughts. I have schitzophrenic demonic oppression still but have experienced some degrees of deliverance thank God. I thought I was lost forever a couple of years ago because it was years before that that I experienced a big miracle in my life. I can't explain it in words but one day suddenly I just knew without a doubt that Jesus was real. He didn;t appear to me or speak to me audibly but I just knew with certainity He was real and He promised me somehow that He would free me from heroin and methadone and He did within days. I gave up the heroin straight away after about 20 years and cut the methadone down over about 5 days. It was so easy, thank and praise the King. But i went so far astray straight away even before i got free of the methadone, i never got born again and still havent. I started smoking marijuana a lot because i believed in the rastafari religion - you know the Jamaican started religion that Bob Marley used to sing about with the dreadlocks and believing smoking marijuana is a sacred ritual. They do believe in Jesus and the Bible but they also believe King Selassie the dead Ethiopian emperor was Christ in His Kingly Character. I got awoken a few years ago and just thought Jesus would never forgive me especially as I also dabbled in other fake religions, being so double mindeded i still believed in Jesus but the demons I still had were telling me He was in all religions and i was so proud and rebellious i thought it was divine guidance. So as you probably guessed i really need to humble myself with fasting. I did fast a lot a few months ago, I tried to do 21 days but didnt make it but done lots of lesser fasts i lost too much weight and had to stop but Jesus still rewarded me with His presence but it didnt last forever. I dont know if it was meant to increase my faith to encourage me that He will return for good if I continue to seek His face or if He has left for ever. Sorry to write so much I just wanted to give Jesus some praise, no matter how i feel now doesnt change the fact I have a lot to be grateful and He is kind.

 

[Brother in Christ (JC)]

Thanks for the reminder. I still find it so hard to resist temptation of smoking tobacco and find it extremely hard to fast. I have been trying to walk seriously with Jesus the last year or two and He has helped me overcome sexual desire, marijuana, i have fallen back into alcohol a couple of times but im feeling more prepared for that now and i no longer have any desire for secular music or television but i still feel so bound especially also with my thoughts. I have schitzophrenic demonic oppression still but have experienced some degrees of deliverance thank God. I thought I was lost forever a couple of years ago because it was years before that that I experienced a big miracle in my life. I can't explain it in words but one day suddenly I just knew without a doubt that Jesus was real. He didn;t appear to me or speak to me audibly but I just knew with certainity He was real and He promised me somehow that He would free me from heroin and methadone and He did within days. I gave up the heroin straight away after about 20 years and cut the methadone down over about 5 days. It was so easy, thank and praise the King. But i went so far astray straight away even before i got free of the methadone, i never got born again and still havent. I started smoking marijuana a lot because i believed in the rastafari religion - you know the Jamaican started religion that Bob Marley used to sing about with the dreadlocks and believing smoking marijuana is a sacred ritual. They do believe in Jesus and the Bible but they also believe King Selassie the dead Ethiopian emperor was Christ in His Kingly Character. I got awoken a few years ago and just thought Jesus would never forgive me especially as I also dabbled in other fake religions, being so double mindeded i still believed in Jesus but the demons I still had were telling me He was in all religions and i was so proud and rebellious i thought it was divine guidance. So as you probably guessed i really need to humble myself with fasting. I did fast a lot a few months ago, I tried to do 21 days but didnt make it but done lots of lesser fasts i lost too much weight and had to stop but Jesus still rewarded me with His presence but it didnt last forever. I dont know if it was meant to increase my faith to encourage me that He will return for good if I continue to seek His face or if He has left for ever. Sorry to write so much I just wanted to give Jesus some praise, no matter how i feel now doesnt change the fact I have a lot to be grateful and He is kind.

I see fasting as the ability to deny oneself. Albeit we associate fasting to food but it can also be anything that denies self. Prayers are effective with fasting, as you deny self and promote God.
Thank you for sharing!
❤❤❤

 

[Steven Bobb]

"the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"

 

[Brother in Christ (JC)]

"the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"

The trick is to fall forward and getting back up again.

2 Corinthians 12:9​

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

 

[Steven Bobb]

The trick is to fall forward and getting back up again.

2 Corinthians 12:9​

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Like the bumper stickers say,"Christians aren't perfect ,, just forgiven".

 

[Brother in Christ (JC)]

Like the bumper stickers say,"Christians aren't perfect ,, just forgiven".

Amen. By His grace we are forgiven.

 

[BrotherAllen]

With God all things are possible. Sin and evil surround us wherever we go and the devil is ready to make us fall and miss our way that leads to heaven. Do not let him do this to you. Keep the faith, keep believing. Jesus is right there to lead you on to His heaven. Without faith, it is impossible to please God.