Bible verse trials and temptations

Are they different? How does God use them in our lives? Solve the following puzzle: You are running away from home. You make three left turns and return home.

Who are the two masked men standing there? My point is, when taking tests, we need to pay attention. Too much is at stake! The purpose of temptation is to bring out the worst in us… and for us to learn to overcome.

Fortunately, God is our partner; He promises to bring us victory in the midst of our temptations — if we so choose. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. How we handle our temptations is a good indicator of our level of spiritual development.

And it helps to come up with a plan. For example, I'm thinking of how many men struggle with lust. I found that a good coping mechanism when we are tempted to lust after a beautiful woman is to immediately pray for her rather than lust for her. Remember, we cannot keep the birds from flying overhead; but, we certainly can keep them from nesting in our hair.

The purpose of trials is to refine our lives and leave us with a purer, stronger faith , as well as a character that God can bless and use. Intent means everything. If I as a leader demanded that my followers run until they threw up, forced them to work for me in grueling circumstances to the detriment of their bodies, and humiliated them continually to destroy their hearts, I would be a monster.

If I did it for their best interests, I would be a drill instructor. If I did it because the person asked me to, I would be a dermatologist performing a chemical peel. If I dropped heavy items on you that could crush you, only to force you to catch them and push them back up, I would be a tormentor.

If I did it for the good of your body, I would be a personal trainer in the gym. If I withheld your normal food for days on end and then only gave you small amounts of berries and vegetables even though there was a bounty of food around, you would call me selfish.

If we listen to Satan, we assume the worst of God; if we know who God is, we assume the best — and that changes everything about how we respond. Satan seeks to harm. He wants to take us down. He wants us to turn our back on God 1 and sin. He promises that every situation will have a way out — an escape hatch that can be utilized through obedience.

God will never do that. This means that difficult, messy things are not always sin. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive? A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,.

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.

The great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So will the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord , plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.