The Battle of Temptations
Proverbs 4:23 (NLT)
Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.
“God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:5)
Satan used the same appeal with Jesus. “IF you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” (Luke 4:3)
4 Ways to Protect against Temptations
1. Ask the Lord to Protect Your Heart
Proverbs 4:23 (NLT)
Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life
2. Establish Openness with God
Psalm 139:23-24 (NLT)
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
3. Keep Short Accounts with Each Other
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NLT)
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
4. Stay Accountable
Mark 10:7-9 (NLT)
7 ‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, 8 and the two are united into one.’ Since they are no longer two but one, 9 let no one split apart what God has joined together.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NLT)
9 Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. 10 If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.
Your marriage and your legacy depend on winning this crucial battle for your heart in order to affair-proof your marriage.
Proverbs 4:23 (NLT)
Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.
“God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:5)
Satan used the same appeal with Jesus. “IF you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” (Luke 4:3)
4 Ways to Protect against Temptations
1. Ask the Lord to Protect Your Heart
Proverbs 4:23 (NLT)
Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life
2. Establish Openness with God
Psalm 139:23-24 (NLT)
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
3. Keep Short Accounts with Each Other
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NLT)
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
4. Stay Accountable
Mark 10:7-9 (NLT)
7 ‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, 8 and the two are united into one.’ Since they are no longer two but one, 9 let no one split apart what God has joined together.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NLT)
9 Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. 10 If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.
Your marriage and your legacy depend on winning this crucial battle for your heart in order to affair-proof your marriage.