The power to say no to sin.

The power to say no to sin seems almost impossible to attain, It though is the power of God it is easy for us to tell our children not stuff they want, we can say when we don’t to support something. But that one thing that has us bound just that something we like, seems so very hard to walk away from.

Everyone has one thing/something that makes he/she fall. It’s like the enemy have our number, and yet it is up to us to choose where we want to be and what we want to do.

God has set before all of us options, and the power we need to say no to sin, lies in how much we trust God and take Him at His word. Integrity is the watch word here, we may do thing in the right way when people are watching us, but as soon as the eyes are off we tend to behave as we really are.

“Satan offered Jesus good reasons to do bad things: (1) prove that You are the Son of God, (2) give God a chance to demonstrate His power by saving You, and (3) save Yourself the trouble and the pain of saving the world by accept­ing this easier way. Each offer, however, required that Jesus compromise His integrity. Even when Satan sugarcoated the offer with Scripture, Jesus failed to take the bait. Jesus could have given in and excused His failure on hunger or something else. Excusing our shortcomings is what we often tend to do.

We also tend to excuse our moral failings by blaming others or particular cir­cumstances: “If Dad hadn’t treated me this way . . .” Or “I grew up in the ghetto and just did what everybody else was doing.” Or “I never would’ve done this if I’d been sober.” Or “I didn’t do it. I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.” If ever there was a person who could have excused moral failure on dis­mal circumstances, it was Joseph. Instead we see in Genesis 39:6–12 the record of a young man who overcame family rejection, kidnapping, and enslavement to leave for posterity a sterling example of sexual integrity.

While the temptation to commit wrong acts may be strong, the stronger temptation is often to omit good ones. Paul did not confront Peter because he had made derogatory remarks about Greeks; instead, Peter simply found it inconvenient to eat with them. He could have excused this faux pas on his calling to reach out to the Jews and said that it was Paul’s work to reach the Greeks. Rationalize his acts all you will, but at the end of the day Peter had compromised his integrity by omitting the good. Contrast this incident with the story of Daniel (Dan. 6:1–10). Daniel could have changed his prayer life, conducted it privately for a month, simply become too busy for a brief period, or gone out of town to make it difficult to be observed. It would have been a brief omission, not a permanent arrangement. Daniel, however, refused to compromise his witness for even a day and was willing to die for his convic­tions. He, too, left a legacy of integrity.”  (SDA Study Guide)

Integrity is not a tag that you put on and take off; it’s the stuff that made up of moral fiber; wholeness of character and wanting to lead other by example to know Jesus better. All too often we se people in high office sell out to the enemy for temporal things that all vanish when Jesus come again. There are examples in the word of God of men and women who chose to take God at His word and lift Him up by their stance for truth and righteousness and by doing so have lead many to God. John 12:32

It’s by beholding we become changed, so time spent with God is very important and necessary, we give too much of our time and attention to the world and not enough to God, so that power we need, that victory we have been striving for, for so long seems never to come, and we wonder why am I not beating this thing? We can if only we let God take full control of our lives.

The whole world believed Obama when he said “yes we can”, but God have been saying this to us for thousands of years and we don’t believe Him.

John 14:8, 9

13:8   Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 

  14:9   Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then], Show us the Father? 

Need we to look any further for our power than the word of God? John 1:14 says, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” He walk and talk the father’s will and leaved for us an example of how we can live without sin in our lives. My friends time spent with God and in His word with total surrender to Him is the power to say to sin, Jesus said it I believe it and that settles it…..Bless!!!