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OVERCOMING TEMPTATION: LESSONS FROM SCRIPTURES

February 24, 2023UncategorizedChrist, christianity, Church, God, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Lordabarkley8

Temptation is a universal human experience. From the moment we are born, we are tempted by various desires, whether it is for food, comfort, pleasure, or power. The Bible, the holy book of Christianity, is filled with stories of people who faced temptation and overcame it. In this article, we will explore some lessons from scripture on how to overcome temptation.

Lesson 1: Recognize the source of temptation

The Bible teaches us that temptation comes from three sources: the world, the flesh, and the devil. The world refers to the sinful culture that surrounds us, while the flesh refers to our own sinful nature. The devil, also known as Satan, is a spiritual being who opposes God and seeks to lead people astray.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (ROMANS 6:1-23 “DEAD TO SIN, ALIVE TO GOD”)

October 24, 2022Uncategorizedalive, baptized, body, Christ, dead, death, delivered, died, dieth, flesh, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, grace, Holy Bible, indeed, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, life, live, living, Lord, members, Mortal, new testament, newness, obedience, obey, Old Testament, raised, resurrection, righteousness, Romans, Romans 6:1-23, servant, servants, Sinabarkley8

1.What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

²God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

³Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

⁴Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

⁵For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

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WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF MARRIAGE?

October 24, 2022UncategorizedAdman, bone, bone of my bone, Christ, creature, Eve, field, flesh, flesh of my flesh, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, hearts, her, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Version, Lord, marriage, married, marrying, Matthew, meet, name, new testament, Old Testament, oness, partnership, rib, serious, Symbolically, the Holy Bible, woman, womenabarkley8

God’s creative work was not complete until He made woman. And then marriage and family became the basis of society-the central organizing unit. God could have made woman from the dust of the ground as He had made man.

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SCRIPTURES OF THE DAY (PROVERBS 3:1-19)

September 25, 2022Uncategorizedbind, bones, chastening, Christ, commandments, day, days, firstfruits, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, happy, Heart, Heavens, jesus, Jesus Christ, law, Lord, Man, marrow bones, Matthew, Men, mother, navel, neck, new testament, Old Testament, peace, rich, riches, scripture of the day, Son, substance, table, wealth, wine, wisdomabarkley8

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

²For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

³Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

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WHAT ARE CITY STREETS FOR?

September 25, 2022Uncategorizedblessed, business, children, Christ, city, communication, cupboards, delivered, devil, evil, full, function, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, harm, home, hope, jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, playing, prey, priority, recreation, safe, satisfied, security, streets, vulnerable, workabarkley8

City streets serve the function of communication and commerce. Without streets, goods cannot be delivered, and people cannot conduct business. But there’s another function, perhaps even more telling.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (EZEKIEL 1:1-21)

September 22, 2022Uncategorized2 wings, animal, animals, beryl, bodie, bodies, burnished brass, Buzi, captivity, Chaldeans, Chebar, Christ, colour, creatures, dreadful, Eagle, earth, Ezekiel, fire, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, Jehoiachin, jesus, Jesus Christ, lamp, lamps, land, lion, live, living, living creatures, Lord, Man, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, ox, oxyn, rings, rivers, son of Buzi, spirit, two wings, visons of God, wheel, wheels, wings, woman, womenabarkley8

1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

²In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (JONAH 4:1-11)

September 18, 2022Uncategorized1000, angry, cattle, Christ, city, country, dead, death, died, east wind, Father, fish, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, gourd, great city, great fish, hand, Holy Father, jesus, Jesus Christ, jonah, Lord, mad, Man, Matthew, moon, new testament, nineveh, north wind, Old Testament, rose, south wind, sun, thousand, west wind, whaleabarkley8

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

²And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

³Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

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HOW’S YOUR SPIRITUAL MAINTENANCE?

September 16, 2022Uncategorized1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, cares, Christ, deceitfulness, entering, Father, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, Holy Ghost, jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord, lusts, maintain, Mark, Matthew, natural things, new testament, Old Testament, Pray, prayers, riches, spirit, spiritual maintenance, suffocate, worldabarkley8

Did you know that the seemingly innocent things in your everyday life can suffocate your spiritual life if you allow it?

A friend of mine said the Lord told her in prayer one day that this nation had become a nation of maintenance men. “You have so many things to maintain,” He told her. “You maintain your house. You maintain your car, your yard, your machines, your hair. . . .

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (PSALM 89: 1-11)

September 14, 2022Uncategorizedbooks of the Bible, Christ, enemies, Faith, faithfulness, feared, forever, generations, God, God of hots, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, great whale, Heavens, jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord, Matthew, mercy, mighty arm, mouth, new testament, ocean, Old Testament, Psalm, Rahab, reverence, saints, scattered, servent, singabarkley8

I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

²For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

³I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

⁴Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (JOSHUA 12:1-6)

August 16, 2022UncategorizedAmorites, Aroer, Ashdothpisgah, books of the Bible, Christ, Edrei, Gadites, Geshurites, giants, gilead, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Jabbok, jesus, Jesus Christ, Joshua, King of bashan, King of Heshbon, Lord, Lord of the children, Maachathites, Moses, moutains, new testament, north, Og, Old Testament, Reubenites, rising, rising sun, river, rivers, rule, ruled, salcah, scripture of the day, scriptures, sea, sea of chinneroth, Sihon, smote, south, sunabarkley8

12 Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:

²Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

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