Excerpt from Get It or Get Got . . . Fighting temptation takes courage. Temptation is only temporary, and there are consequences for our every action, whether good or bad.

Temptation has a way with our feelings; therefore, we must be careful not to walk in our feelings because our feelings and emotions can get us into some things that are easy to get into but so hard to get out of.

It’s up to us to make the choice to walk in the Spirit, to rebuke temptation.

Galatians 6:7 (KJV) – be not deceived, God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Ephesians 6:12 (KJV) – for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Matthew 26:41 (KJV) – watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

James 1:22 (KJV) – but be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Galatians 5;16 (KJV) – this I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

When harm is done to us, we don’t often think that we will prevail, or that the wrong done to us is actually our blessing.

God catches our tears and puts them in a bottle. And when we cry out to him, he turns those that have wronged us away from us. Not only that, but those things that are meant to do us wrong, God turns them for our good, and into beauty.

Therefore, give thanks and praise to our Father!

Psalm 56:8-9 (KJV) – thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

Genesis 50:20 (KJV) – but as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

Isaiah 61:3 (KJV) – to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

Psalm 92:1 (KJV) – it is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High.

He is risen!

We are saved by grace, through faith. The resurrection of our Lord and Savior dying on the cross for us, and proving that He is the Messiah, by raising from the dead, has promised us eternal life

This is the day the Lord has made, rejoice in it! He lives and reign forever and ever!

Ephesians 2:8 (KJV) – for by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.

Acts 24:15 (KJV) – and have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.

Psalm 118:24 (KJV) – this is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Revelation 11:15 (KJV) – and the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

When we pray, most of us wonder if God hears? Or wonder if we will be delivered from out circumstances.

When we cry out to God with a pure heart, a righteous heart, He hears us. And when he hears us, He delivers us out of our troubles.

Believe it, because God cannot tell a lie. What God speaks, happens, and His word does not come back void.

His word says, the righteous will have many afflictions, but God will deliver us out of every last one of them.

Be transparent with God, tell him all your true thoughts, and your true feelings, and watch him answer your prayers and deliver you.

Psalm 34:17 (KJV) – the righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Isaiah 55:11 (KJV) – so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Psalm 34:19 (KJV) – many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth Him out of them all.

Psalm 62:8 (KJV) – trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

There are some that profess to know it all, but we will never know it all, no matter how much of God’s word we read. If we knew it all, we would have all the answers, and we wouldn’t need God our Father.

God made everything perfect in its form. His work is perfect. His way is perfect. He is perfect, who also wants us to be perfect through him.

We will never know all the answers, and we will never know all of God, from beginning to the end.

Deuteronomy 32:4 (KJV) – He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

II Samuel 22:31 (KJV) – as for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.

Matthew 5:48 (KJV) – be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (KJV) – He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

God is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. We are not so. Our attitudes change like the weather. Today, we’re happy, tomorrow we’re sad or mad, and who knows what mood we’re going to be in the next day.

Our moody attitudes comes from the flesh, because we walk in the flesh, and when we walk in the flesh, we can not please God. We are to walk in the Spirit to fight off our fleshly ways.

Be conscience of how you’re walking, either in the Spirit, or in the flesh. Either one has consequences to your advantage or disadvantage.

Hebrews 13:8 (KJV) – Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Romans 8:8-9 (KJV) – so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Galatians 5:16 (KJV) – this I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

In every circumstances when you are confused, it’s not of God. It’s satan trying to move you in a direction away from what God wants for you. But, when your spirit is not quiet about something, it’s God trying to get your attention.

When you’re confused, speak the word of God, speak His promises, and He will give you peace. He will guide you in the way He wants you to go.

When God is trying to get your attention, be still and know that He is God. He will open your eyes to what He is trying to show you.

When your mind is at peace, you will know, it is of God.

I Corinthians 14:33 (KJV) – for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV) – for I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Psalm 32:8 (KJV) – I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

Psalm 46:10 (KJV) – be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

II Thessalonians 3:16 (KJV) – now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.

We always got our hands stuck out for something. Give me this, give me that. Give me, give me, give me.

God said, He will supply all our needs. He knows what we are in need of before we ask it. Some things we don’t have it’s because we don’t ask, or we ask with the wrong motive.

The one thing we fail to do so often, is to be thankful. Don’t just always ask, but to give thanks to our Father. There’s nothing wrong in asking for things, but he wants us to be thankful in our asking, and in everything. When I say everything, I mean everything!

Ask so that you can receive, and ask with the right motive, the right intentions. Most importantly, give thanks, it is God’s will for us.

Philippians 4:19 (KJV) – but my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Matthew 6:8 (KJV) – be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

James 4:2-3 (KJV) – ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

I Thessalonians 5:18 (KJV) – in every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.