The Hunter's Temptation
Friday, February 10, 2023
The Pleasure Principle
Hunters hunt by using bait--the pleasure principle. Worms are gourmet for fish. Another temptation is sex; a hunter blows a horn imitating a duck call. The male duck, looking for a good time, gets caught. That's not just true for animals and hunters, it's true of the enemy, the hunter of your soul. He uses the pleasure principle to trap you, to get you away from God, into temptation, out of God's will. It doesn't matter what it is, whether you have a hard time with other believers, that's the pleasure/pain principle. He will offer something to get you away from fellowship. To overcome that, stop living by pleasure and stop avoiding the uncomfortable. Seek God and His righteousness. Refuse the pleasures of sin and embrace the hardness of the cross. When the enemy's bait has nothing to connect to, he can't touch you. The enemy's worm, the enemy's horn will not lure you. Reject the pleasure principle for the God principle and the righteousness principle. Do what is right. Forget about pain or pleasure and you will end up a victorious believer and not a dead duck.

Today's Mission
When you face temptation today, try something new - look to the end of that temptation, where it will take you, the pain it will bring - and resist It!

John 10:10
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Jesus told this simple story, but they had no idea what he was talking about. So he tried again. “I’ll be explicit, then. I am the Gate for the sheep. All those others are up to no good—sheep rustlers, every one of them. But the sheep didn’t listen to them. I am the Gate. Anyone who goes through me will be cared for—will freely go in and out, and find pasture. A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.

HAVE A BLESSED DAY AND WEEKEND

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The Undipped
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Whelmed
A Greek myth tells of when Achilles was a baby; his mother dipped him into the "River of Immortality." But the heel by which his mother held him wasn't dipped into the water--leaving him vulnerable there. Thus the phrase: "Achilles heel." He died when an arrow struck his heel. Achilles was dipped in a myth, but we are dipped for real. We are baptized in Messiah, completely submerged in Him in salvation. You won't have victory where something is not covered. The enemy can still touch you where you are not submerged under Messiah's headship, leaving you vulnerable. The enemy will have a foothold or heel hold of anything that is out of the cross; anything out of His Lordship. Submerge yourself into Him. Dip everything in your life: that sin, that thing, that ambition, that habit under His Lordship, and it will be covered. The enemy will be defeated in your life, and there will be no more strongholds, footholds; or heel holds. You'll have victory, and no Achilles heel. Submerge your spot so there will be nothing left in your life that is undipped.

Today's Mission
Give the enemy of your soul no room in your life. Cover every weakness, every temptation with the blood of Yeshua. Immerse yourself in Messiah to be completely His.

Psalm 62:2
2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
God, the one and only— I’ll wait as long as he says. Everything I need comes from him, so why not? He’s solid rock under my feet, breathing room for my soul, An impregnable castle: I’m set for life.

HAVE A BLESSED DAY AND WEEKEND