At the moment of Prayer in temptation, do we find relief from temptation.
Failure to pray in temptation results in being overcome by temptation, and how the Devil delights in that stronghold over us. But in saying, "no" in temptation and praying to God do we find the power of God strengthening us in temptation and does the devil ever flee and vanish from our presence when we submit to God in prayer in temptation--then we find true relief and victory over temptation as we resist and pray!
When thinking of Jesus in the wilderness--Did he ever submit to His heavenly Father in prayer in temptation. And It is not so much the temptation, He was tempted like us in everyway being 100% human, but He was without sin! However, in our old self there is the desire and craving to be tempted to sin that lingers through out our life. And the Devil seizes to use that to draw us away from God. But when the day of evil comes, and it will always surely approach with vengeance, we indeed, must be ever so vigilant to fight and pray—the more we pray, we can have confidence that he will flee away, until he seizes the next opportunity to attack. My Concern is this, sometimes we are so numb and paralyzed that we do not Pray in temptation; we try to handle it in our own strength, and as a result we always fall.
James 4:6-7
6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”[a]
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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