We hope you enjoy this re-post from August 30, 2013. Be blessed! The Today’s Quote From God Team

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot perform it. [I have the intention and urge to do what is right, but no power to carry it out.] – Romans 7:18, AMP

It is at the moment of temptation that faith and folly collide. At the moment of temptation we are faced with a choice – either to call on the power of God to overcome the folly, or to let the folly overpower us as we attempt to resist it in our own power.

Many of us have one or two life-dominating sins that we cannot seem to gain regular victory over. The reason we cannot have victory is because each time we face the temptation, we face it alone rather than arm in arm with God Almighty. The Apostle Paul, like the rest of us, desired to do right but ended up doing wrong when he faced temptation without Christ. Unable to resist his natural tendency to sin, Paul exclaimed in Romans 7:24 (AMP):

O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from [the shackles of] this body of death?

His deliverer was not “will power” or “medication” or some “program” but God Himself (Romans 7:25). He expounded on this idea in Philippians 4:13 (AMP) when he wrote:

I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency].

In his own power, Paul was a sinful failure. With God’s power flowing through him, he was a holy success.

So, how do we access God’s supernatural power to overcome our irresistible, natural tendency to sin? We ask God for it, each and every time we run into temptation.  Every time we pray for something that is in God’s will, God WILL supply that thing. As 1 John 5:14, 15 (AMP) states:

14 And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us.

15 And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.

It is ALWAYS God’s will for us to resist temptation, so if we ask God to give us the power to do so, He will supply that power, each and every time.

Sin is devastating. It is life-sapping. And, it is irresistible when we face it solely with human will power. If we want victory over that which habitually defeats us, we must call on God to supply us with His supernatural power to say “No!” each and every time we encounter the temptation. If we don’t, then the sin will continue to have its way with us, and life will continue to be devoid of the peace that God intends for all of His children to possess. (Jeremiah 29:11)