Satan whispers to us

Are we really to sacrifice nothing? Are we really not supposed to feel the pain of depriving our flesh? Is life with Christ truly supposed to be all fun and games? Satan will make following Christ seem IMPOSSIBLE! Satan will pull out ALL stops to get us to give in to Him. Satan wants us to STOP fighting the fight. Satan wants us to STOP warring against our own flesh. Christ's yoke IS easy, Christ's burden IS light! But Satan would have us believe Christ's yoke is the hardest yoke upon earth. Satan would have us believe the burden of Christ is heaviest burden of all. Satan will slip into our lives whispering to us that we can never be enough. Satan will tease our thoughts with the lie that we must fight our flesh and bring it into subjection as we mortify all our evil deeds ON OUR OWN, OF OUR OWN ACCORD.  And when we fail because we DO inevitably fail as we fight the fight on our own, Satan is right there ready to guide our lives down his path to destruction.  Satan LIED to get man to sin and why mess with what works? Satan will lie to EVERYONE of us!  Yes, we are to KEEP under our bodies and bring them into subjection-- THROUGH CHRIST. Yes, we must be temperate in ALL things- THROUGH CHRIST. Yes, we are to mortify the deeds of the body- THROUGH CHRIST.

If we read all the following verses I've collected and leave out the comprehension that we only succeed in Christ, then we are completely and utterly lost.

As someone who battles many flesh lusts, as someone who has many deeds to mortify, as someone who needs to bring their body under subjection- I UNDERSTAND!  I WAR DAILY!  I AM A WRETCHED HUMAN BEING!  And I must NEVER forget that CHRIST ALONE can save me from myself!

There is a VERY good reason we are told this--

Mat_6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Truly there is enough evil in each day as it comes, we don't need to borrow on tomorrow's evil. 

We need to pray for DAILY BREAD, not weekly bread.

PLEASE FATHER IN HEAVEN, please forgive us! We are weak wretched creatures with weak wills. Be all for us that we cannot seem to be whether by will or not. Please! Be our ALL in ALL.  Through the grace and mercy of our SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, by the HOLY SPIRIT in US! PLEASE, save us from ourselves! Please!  THANK YOU!  Amen!

1Co 9:27  But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

1Co 9:25  And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

1Co 8:13  Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

Rom 8:13  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live

2Co 6:4  But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

2Co 6:5  In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fasting

2Co 11:27  In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Col 3:5  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry

2Ti 2:22  Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

1Pe 2:11  Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul

1Pe 4:1  Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

1Pe 4:2  That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

1Pe 4:3  For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

1Pe 4:4  Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you

Luk 21:34  And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Luk 21:35  For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

Luk 21:36  Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Rom 8:11  But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Rom 8:12  Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Rom 8:13  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Rom 13:11  And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Rom 13:12  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Rom 13:13  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Rom 13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Gal 5:16  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Gal 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Gal 5:24  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Amen.