Temptation: noun
a desire to do something, esp. something wrong or unwise.
10 Ways to Beat Temptation:1. Accept the responsibility for your own moral purity.-Girls, don't expect your boyfriend to do it for you!-Guys, same for you the girls aren't going to be pure for you.-It's a joint effort, if your boyfriend/girlfriend isn't willing to be pure, ditch him! 2. Recognize and remove the things that make you stumble.- If you are doing stuff that isn't pleasing to God, don't do it.- What Instagram hashtags are you following? Would you want everyone to know?- If something, or someone is making you stubble, then remove them from your life. For example: If you are having a hard time staying away from bad stuff on the internet when you get out of school, and your parents aren't home from work, recognize that and ask your parents to take the phone away for the time they aren't home. - You can't do it on your own! If you think you can, good luck, because it's not going to work! You need someone to help you.
3. Small compromises will lead to big trouble.-When it you get a really big snow, and you want to make the BIGGEST snowman ever! So you get a little bit of snow, pat it into a ball, and roll it in the snow, the more you roll the bigger it gets, and before you know it, you have a HUGE snowball, then when all the other snow is gone, that huge snowball is there, sticking out like a sore thumb. Just like a snowball the same is with relationships, that one kiss you had the other day may not be that big of a deal to you, but its just going to get worse from there, and there are consequences!- If you go off road you will wreck!
4. Be honest about the influences in your life.-The music you listens to effects you, you can say that it doesn't, but the fact remains, it does!It effects you a lot more that bible verses effect you, what is it we get tattoos of? What are we writing on our walls? In and on our notebooks and journals? Song lyrics! So you cant say it doesn't effect you. It effects the people you hang around, what you wear, the way you talk, dress, and act toward others. If you are listening to trashy music, you are going to be attracted to trashy people, and you will lower your standards. -The internet effects you a ton! The average teen spends 31 house a week online. You can't say that doesn't effect you!-And the average teen watches 30 hours of tv a week. - If something if influencing you in a bad way, you need to get rid of it! Even if it is your best friend...
5. Don't be the source of temptation for someone else.- Girls, don't be strutting yourself around like you're all "it" you shouldn't be trying to tempt other guys to want you.- Guys, don't show off to get all the girls attention.
6. Take your thoughts captive.- What are your thoughts? Are they pure and Godly?- Most of the time your thought become your actions.-Sometimes you get bad thoughts in you head that are from way off in left field, and you have no clue how they got there. But try and get them out, you may have to read a scripture, think of rainbows and ponies, you may even have to get out a red-back hymnal and sing old songs, what ever you have to do to get the thought out of your head! And not only get the bad thoughts out, replace them with healthy ones. -What if all your thought were played on a screen like a movie? Would you be proud of them?
7. Prioritize God's word.- If you aren't spending time reading scripture, you can't expect to be this great christian.- Like I said before, the average teen spends 31 hours a week online, and 30 hours a week watching tv, and according to a study done by Pew Internet and American Life Project, more than 75% of todays teens have a cell phone, that's up 45% from 2004. About 88% of all teen cell phone users are texters. More than half of teen texters report texting on a daily basis. In fact, 1 in 3 teens send more than 100 messages per day (that's about 3,000 messages a month.) About 15% of teen texters send more than 200 texts a day, or 6,000 texts a month! Some of these teens admitted to sleeping with their phones under their pillow so it will vibrate when they get a text. -Reading scripture is vital in being a christian! And beating temptation.
8. Visualise the consequences.- What would happen if you were caught???-What would your parents say if they found out?- Most importantly what would God think of your thoughts? He knows every thought you have!
9. Saving yourself should be top priority.-Saving yourself for the person you marry, the person you spend the rest of you life with, should be most important.
10. Forgive yourself and other key people in your life.- You can't hold grudges forever.- You have to move on from your past, it's done it's over, you can't relive it, so move on.
Here are some scriptures that go along with all of that.
Ephesians 6:10-18
10-12 And that about wraps it up. God is strong, and he wants you strong. So take everything the Master has set out for you, well-made weapons of the best materials. And put them to use so you will be able to stand up to everything the Devil throws your way. This is no afternoon athletic contest that we’ll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels.
13-18 Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it’s all over but the shouting you’ll still be on your feet. Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation are more than words. Learn how to apply them. You’ll need them throughout your life. God’s Word is an indispensable weapon. In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other’s spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.
1 Corinthians 10:13
13 No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he’ll never let you be pushed past your limit; he’ll always be there to help you come through it.
Galatians 5:16
16-18 My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God’s Spirit. Then you won’t feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness.
James 4:7
7-10 So let God work his will in you. Yell a loud no to the Devil and watch him scamper. Say a quiet yes to God and he’ll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin. Purify your inner life. Quit playing the field. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, really serious. Get down on your knees before the Master; it’s the only way you’ll get on your feet.
James 1:14
The temptation to give in to evil comes from us and only us. We have no one to blame but the leering, seducing flare-up of our own lust. Lust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to adulthood, and becomes a real killer.
Romans 12:2
Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
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