FIGHTING AND CONQUERING TEMPTATIONS.

Not everybody that fights a temptation eventually conquers that temptation. Many people have battled and struggled with various forms of temptations for years without overcoming them.
Whenever the temptations come they always fall for it. They have even started believing that it is impossible to overcome such temptation.
How I wish you will understand that temptations are not to punish you, but to promote you. Every time you are tempted, it is just an indication that a major promotion is on the way, it means you are about to be lifted up, but you must overcome that temptation first so as to enter the next level.
Even Jesus Christ before He was empowered, he was tempted three times in Luke chapter 4 vs. 3 to 13.
The exam of life is the exam of temptations.  It is this test that produces your testimony; it is the trial that brings about your desired triumph. The problem is not the temptation but it is in falling for the temptation.
I know that there are some temptations you always fall for, the temptation of anger, the temptation of lust that may lead to fornication/ adultery or masturbation, the temptation to lie your way out as a form of escape, the temptation to forge figures in the office that are not true, the temptation to take what does not belong to you, the temptation to gossip and backbite, the temptation of pride, all to mention but a few.

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