Quotes about Resistance

1. List your own top three lust triggers. How can you avoid them? 2. What time of day or week are you most tempted by lust? What can you do to prepare for those times? 3. Which locations are the most tempting for you? How can you limit your time in those places? 4. What five little battles do you need to be fighting more faithfully? Describe in detail what it looks like for you to fight—and win—these battles.

We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.

Be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted.

Satan wants to lure us into his traps, and he knows exactly what kind of "bait" will appeal to us. He knows what we're like, and he will attack us exactly where we are the weakest.

Neither the devil nor the world, nor even our own evil heart can compel us to sin. It must be by our own consent and will.

In a decadent society the will to believe, to resist, to contend, to fight, to struggle is gone. In place of this will to resist, there is the desire to conform, to drift, to follow, to yield, and not give up.

We live in a hostile world that constantly seeks to pull us away from God.

I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard—I must keep armed.

Today—and every day—put on the full armor of God to fight Satan's attacks, so you can and "be strong in the Lord" (Ephesians 6:10).

If we are at peace with this world, it may be because we have sold out to it and compromised with it.

The Bible teaches that you have three enemies . . . the devil . . . the world . . . the flesh.

We can't flee from temptation in our own strength—but God will give us the strength we need, if we'll only seek it. A friend of mine says, "When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door!