The test or trial in actuality benefits two individuals, first of course the enemy (he loses) and you are victorious.  God has already provided us with armor.  Paul says in Ephesians 6:11 to put on the WHOLE ARMOR of God.  God gave it to us to PROTECT us, so it is obvious that God does… Read More »

God has to allow the enemy to tempt/test and try you because satan is the “g”od of this world, and that is how the system was designed.  But God has made provision for us to overcome each temptation, test and trial.  So how do you overcome these things?  By counting them as joy, and by… Read More »

James 1:3, “Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”  Notice, not the trying of YOU, but the trying of your faith.  You can’t count it joy, if you don’t know this.  The word “trying” in the Greek is the word “proving.”  In a positive sense, “proving” is the same as testing something to make… Read More »

When you react to the temptation, the thing you are reacting to will OVERPOWER you.  However, if you COUNT IT AS JOY, that temptation will have no control over you.  In order to count it joy, in verse, you have to include verse 3, you have to read them together, which would then read like, … Read More »

James 1:2, “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”  Temptations means trials, and tests.  So, you can read it like, ……………..into divers temptations, tests and trials.  Notice that James very clearly says that temptations are not joyful.  God is not a sadist.  He is not telling you to feel good about… Read More »

The prayer of faith Mark 11:24, “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”  The Will of God, then, is that when I pray, I have to believe that I receive.  If I do that, then I shall have what I am… Read More »

You have to get into a position where you can’t turn back.  “Don’t throw away your confidence.”  Why?  Because it has GREAT RECOMPENCE OF REWARD!  What is the reward? “That after you have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”  Notice that the promise comes AFTER you do the will of God. … Read More »

The enemy will use every means possible to try and stop you from standing on the Word of God.  Hebrews 10:35-36, “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.  For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”  DON’T QUIT, DON’T BACK… Read More »

The enemy will put pressure on through your family or the co-workers at your job, as well as other people and circumstances.  Perhaps you are living a holy life now, and not laughing at the dirty jokes at the office any more, and the people you work with are putting pressure on you.  If you… Read More »

Continuing on with the preacher’s testimony, “I had to do two things.  I had to ACT LIKE the Word was true, and in order to act like the Word was true, I HAD TO HOLD FAST TO MY CONFESSION.  I made my commitment.  I decided that I had the tumor anyway, that if I did… Read More »