Awsome! We all know the struggles of temptation but to have the gift of having a verse at hand(in our mind) is wonderful warfare!

I don't know what your struggle was but here is one of mine: don't laugh!

Yesterday I was very careful with my eating so that I would be able to have some of my son’s birthday cake after dinner. It was really good, I might add! In the middle of the night I woke up to a terrible craving for more of that cake! I knew it was just sitting on the counter waiting for me to get a fork and take a bite (and then probably more bites). My flesh really wanted that cake but my spirit said “no”. I was like, “Lord, help me fight this craving”. Right away this verse came to me and I had to repeat it several times during the course of the night: “But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I preach to others, I myself should become disqualified.” 1 Cor.9:27

I honestly had to fight it all night with this verse. It did not take the temptation away but it gave me the strength to fight it. I also thought about how I would feel more tired in the morning and it would be harder to get myself on the treadmill.

I have found that fighting the flesh is harder than spiritual warfare against the enemy. The enemy and I already know that he is defeated. But the flesh, on the other hand...we just have to keep crucifying it a little at a time. But I will press on toward the prize, as Paul says.

~Chanin

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Chanin