God is counting on you...if not you then who...remember no temptation has over taken you that is not common to man.2cor 10:13..i don't care what it is...there are others facing the same lure of the dark one...DOn't give up. Jesus was tempted in every way...everyway...yes every way says Hebrews .He knows what you are going through and the battle you face. For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.heb2:18 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. (kjv) This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same temptations we do, yet he did not sin. (nlv) Hebrews 4:15 You see he knows what you are going through and intercedes on your behalf and so you can also pray for others with a true passion who are facing the same temptations you face. touched with the feelings of their infirmities...moved by compassion...when Jesus was moved by compassion healing power flowed and so it will with you...faith is activated by Love. God will use what you've been through to be another's break through!

Don't give up Pilgrim...You will progress and the Image of Christ you soon will reflect !

    Faith is a fight for the word says fight the good fight of faith...Yet the fight works our Faith! fight will make might...we will only grow stronger and as Joshua said...the enemy is our bread.. read Ipeter1:6,7 James 1:2,3 for a season we are going through many temptations but we will not fail.. Take Peter as your example...Jesus told him the devil desires to sift you like wheat (as he does us) but i am praying that your faith would not fail and when you come back strengthen your brothers. You see he may have lost a battle but not the war and so we may have lost a few battles but we will never surrender and we will win the war! He came back in the power of the Spirit and preached with boldness the one he a few weeks earlier had vehemently denied, cursing Him while he stood close by...wow the love and mercy of Jesus brings tears to my eyes. Rejected He went to the cross...destiny isn't always easy...Peter went from denying to boldly proclaiming seeing 5,000 saved in one day!

       Jesus is praying that your faith will not fail. He is for you not against you. .Surrender your struggles to Him cry out for His strength...He has entrusted us with so much...so much depends on our destiny as Frodo in tlotr was given a great task with so much at stake yet the struggle with the power and lure of the ring (evil and the desires of the temporal world) was great. So it is with us but God will give us strength for the battle psalm 18:39 Let me be your Sam and encourage you young Frodo...never forget why you fight .See as God. see the end from the beginning. see the tree from the seed. see the good in all and the treasure to be. That will give you the strength to endure Heb 12:2 For the joy set before him Jesus endured the cross and its shame...Love endures all ..stay in Love with Jesus...like a hot drink once you put an ice cube in it it becomes look warm...Stay away from the ice of the world and stay aflame with the fire of Love...beat your body ..drag it ..cast the devil out if need be but don't give up...Hebrews 12 tells us not to grow weary not to faint but to lay aside the destiny distracting sin ..weights that easily beset us...it tells us to be encouraged to consider Christ and the struggle he faced...we have not yet resisted sin to the point of shedding our blood...think about it .the greater the destiny the greater the opposition.

   He died (and rose again) to give us the power over sin. Stand in that power and don't back down...Romans 8 you by the power of the Spirit put to death the deeds of the flesh.. ( to be continued) love you...tiavi