Stay Spiritually Ready for Temptation - Love Worth Finding - November 26
November 26, 2025 – Stay Spiritually Ready for Temptation
Sermon: 2025 How to Handle Temptation, Part 2
Pray Over This
“Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.”
Ponder This
Temptation can come from any place. Jesus is the last Adam. Jesus was tempted in the wilderness, and Jesus overcame. Adam was tempted in the garden, and Adam fell.
Satan doesn’t care whether he comes to you in a garden or in the wilderness. Don’t get the idea that somehow you can isolate and insulate yourself from temptation.
Sometimes people go all the way to a monastery to fast and pray and get off in some hole in the rock, but they find out there’s no holiness in the hole. You cannot escape temptation by location. Temptation may come to any person—it came to Jesus. It may come in any period—it came after His baptism, and He was filled with the Holy Spirit. It may come in any place, whether it be in a garden or whether it be in a wilderness. We need to be forewarned; temptation can come at any point. We have to live with spiritual readiness!
What does it look like to be spiritually ready for temptation?
When have you felt unprepared to face temptation? What did you do?
Practice This
Ask God to equip you to be prepared to face temptation and trials.
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