10 ways to overcome temptation

For the past three days now, we have been talking about temptations and how to overcome them, and i think it will be of a good gesture if we could use this whole week to talk about temptation.

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Without wasting much of your time, lets just go straight to the 10 ways to overcome temptation. temptation is one problem Christian's encounter everyday. whether you are in Europe, Asia, Afghanistan, Nigeria, U.S.A or any other part of the world, there are temptation of different kind.

if you would like to read the first two article on temptation, just click on any of this how to overcome temptations and bible verses to overcoming temptations .

10 WAYS TO OVERCOME TEMPTATION

1. Identify your temptations ( what type of temptation do you face? write it down)
2. What are the causes of the temptation? ( what bring about the temptation? is it when you are alone? when you are with peers? or when you are surfing through the internet? also note these too, put them down on the same paper).
3. Now that you know what kind of temptation you face, the next step is to Pray about it. asking for the help of God, to strengthen you.
4. Try to play sometimes and make fun with families and friends.
5. Avoid the temptations (1 Corinthians  6:18)
6. Use, quote and believe in God's word. ( we have an article on using the bible verses to overcome temptation you can read it here . )
7. Make friends of the same faith, and share things with your brothers in faith.
8. Believe that with the grace of God you can overcome.
9. Have faith in God
10. Flee from every form of temptation.   

i pray that with these few steps, you will overcome every temptation with the grace of God.
just believe in Jesus Christ and put your Focus on him, and he is faithful and Just to help you overcome.

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Bible Verses to overcoming Temptations

    The bible tells us to flee from every temptation that comes our way. It does not say stay with it you have the power to control it but it said flee from temptation. For those of you who have not read the first part of this article you can read it here .

If you're struggling with temptation in your life, take some encouragement from these verses and pray the prayer below, asking the Lord to help you deal with the temptations you face each day.

here are the list of bible verses to help your overcome temptations.

(psalm 119:9-10) 
 Where shall a young man cleanse his way?
but  by taking heed to thy word.  
 With my whole heart have I sought thee:  O let me not wander from thy commandments.

(psalm 119:11)
 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

(Mathew 4:1-4) 
  Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

(luke 11:14) 
And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

(james 4:7)
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

(james 4:17) 
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

(1 Corinthians 10:13)
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
   
 Dear Lord,
You know the temptations that I am facing today. But your Word promises that I will not be tempted more than what I can handle I ask for your grace to stand up under the temptation whenever I encounter it. Your Word also tells me you will provide a way out of the temptation. Please, Lord, give me the wisdom to walk away when I am tempted, and the clarity to see the way out that you will provide. Thank you, God, that you are a faithful saviour.
Amen

HOW TO OVERCOME TEMPTATIONS

       Temptations is one issue Christians faces today. No body is above being tempted just like the politicians will say, nobody is above the law.
Without any question at all, the biggest problem that Christians have is temptation. By far, it's the biggest problem. If you can eliminate temptation, you can eliminate sin, because succumbing to temptations is what produces sin.

If Jesus Christ had succumb to the devil, it would have lead him into sinning against God.Just like i said earlier, "TEMPTATIONS BEGAT SIN". Temptation, is not difficult to resist or overcome, infact it is a very easy thing to overcome temptation, when you know the word and what you are focusing on.

 A pastor once told his congregation, "I learned a great lesson from a dog." He said, "His master used to put a bit of meat or a biscuit or some kind of food on the ground, and he'd say to the dog, 'Don't eat that,' and the dog would run over and eat it, so he'd hit the dog. And he put another piece of meat on the ground. He'd say, 'Don't eat that.' The dog would go over and eat it, and he hit him again. Well, after awhile, the dog got the message: eat meat, get hit. So the dog decided he wouldn't eat the meat." But the man telling the story related how that the dog never looked at the meat. The dog evidently felt that if he looked at the meat, the temptation to disobey would be too great, and so he looked steadfastly into his master's face and never took his eyes off him, and thus the temptation never caused a problem.

And that is exactly how temptations works, you know one thing about temptation is that when you overcome it, it takes you to your promotion, and the other thing is you will be happy you didn't fall into it.

In other to overcome temptations, you have to focus you whole attention towards Jesus Christ. 
As long as we keep all of our attentions to that temptation, just like the Dog did in the above example before realizing what his master want it to do, it has gotten to stroke of a stick on its head. But when he got what the master needed it to understand, it became focused on not getting hit with a stick, so the Dog had to take its focus away from the meet and focused on its master.

WHAT TEMPTATIONS BRINGS INTO THE LIFE OF ITS VICTIM  
  
      These are some things temptations cause in the life of a victim.

• IT BRINGS CONDEMNATION AND REPROACH
• IT TAKES YOU FAR AWAY FROM CHRIST
• WHEN YOU FALL FOR A TEMPTATION, IT MAKES IT EASIER FOR THE DEVIL TO ATTACK 

N.B  ONE KEY THING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TEMPTATION IS THAT NO TEMPTATIONS IS BIGGER THAN YOU, THAT IS, ALL TEMPTATIONS YOU COME ACROSS, YOU HAVE THE POWER TO OVERCOME IT.

 We are told that Christ was also tempted: “For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15).

Where, then, do these temptations come from? First of all, they do not come from God, although He does allow them. James 1:13 says, “For God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.” In the first chapter of Job, we see that God allowed Satan to tempt Job, but with restrictions. Satan is roaming around on the earth like a lion, seeking people to devour (1 Peter 5:8). Verse 9 tells us to resist him, knowing that other Christians are also experiencing his attacks. By these passages we can know that temptations come from Satan. We see in James 1:14 that temptation originates in us as well. We are tempted when we are “carried away and enticed by our own lust” (verse 14). We allow ourselves to think certain thoughts, allow ourselves to go places we should not go, and make decisions based on our lusts that lead us into the temptation..

HOW CAN WE OVERCOME TEMPTATION?

  Yes! this is where we are headed to. how can we overcome temptation.
Firstly, you have to know that temptation is not from God, don't be deceive by what people say. Don't always give them 100% accuracy, the bible is there for you to check.







Now that you know this lets move to how you can overcome temptations.

1. have and put your total focus on Jesus Christ.
2. Believe that you have the power to overcome every temptation that come on your way.
3. when tempted, always say to your self "i am a child of God, i cannot do this to offend God.
4. learn to quote the bible.
5. always ask for the grace of God, because you can't do this alone.

thank you for reading this article, i will pile up some bible verse to help you conquer temtations in our next article. 

hope you have learn something today? you can drop your comments if i have missed out something, that you thinks might be  of help to us all.