James 1:12-14 NKJV
[12] Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. [13] Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. [14] But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
Beloved,
As we continue to examine how to avoid destiny falls, we continue our thought flow from yesterday on avoiding the completion of the chain of events that leads to a man. The starting point of the supply chain of a fall is lustful desire. After lustful desire comes enticement which conceives sin and inevitably, a fall.
If a lustful desire comes and you don’t yield to it, the fall won’t happen. But when you allow it to conceive, it will give birth to sin. Lustful desires comes from what you expose yourself to; what you read and watch and listen to. Now when a believer is tempted by a lustful desire, there should be a reaction in his spirit. Divine signal lets you know when you are about to be involved in something that you shouldn’t be involved in. That is the voice of the Holy Spirit letting you know through your conscience that what you are about to do is wrong.
If you receive that communication yet deliberately ignore the voice of your conscience, then you are killing your conscience gradually. When a man’s conscience is no longer alive, there is nothing for the Holy Spirit to work with in that man’s life. Don’t allow the devil to complete that chain of fall in you. King Saul shouldn’t have disobeyed divine instruction if he yielded to Samuel’s warning. David committed more atrocities, but he didn’t need to be corrected more than once about the same thing. His repentance was sincere every single time.
Beloved, train your spirit to respond to the signals and the warning of the Holy Spirit. When you do, the devil will have no way of completing that fall in you.
I commend you to God and to the word of His grace.
I call you blessed. I call you NATIONS.
