Dont Forget To Be Grateful

Temptation Pt 1

Genesis Chapters 2&3
Hey Guys! Thanks a lot for joining me again! Whether this is your first time or you've viewed each of my previous post i appreciate you and I truly hope these post are a blessing to you.Lets start with a quick prayer.
    Our father who art in heaven, we come to you now humbling ourselves and our hearts in your presence.God we know that your word says when two or more gather in my name i shall be in the midst.We thank you..for your mercy, for your grace, for forgiveness, for your favor God. I pray that every heart reading this will be humbled and open to accepting your word God in the name of Jesus.AMEN!
Lets get right into it guys! As i began to reflect on temptation and how prevalent it is not only in todays society but in the bible i tried to put myself in the shoes of the one tempted. Now I studied whether that person passed or failed "the test" and through praying and seeking God i tried to come up with why they passed or failed. There was one thing that stuck out to me. GRATEFULNESS. I noticed that those who passed almost every time were grateful for what God had done or just who God was. And vice versa, those who didnt passed I often noticed a lack of Gratefulness..im here today to tell you "Dont Forget To Be Grateful."     Lets Go Waaaaay back to the Garden of Eden! Everyone knows this story so I wont beat a dead horse but what i want to talk about is What they had to be grateful of

• God created Adam from "THE DUST OF THE GROUND" and breathed into him the breath of life.
• God created Eve by putting Adam to sleep, taking out his rib and constructing her FROM THE RIB.
• In Gen ch 2 v16 God said "You are free to eat from ANY TREE IN THE GARDEN"

Sounds like some AMAZING things only God could do right? I believe if they had remembered what God did for them and Been Grateful for that, nothing would have been able to get their mind off God. I'm reminded of the story of Joseph.When tempted by Potiphars wife he turned her down saying my master has put me in charge of everything in this house i could not sin against him or my God in such a way.He was Grateful for the position the King had put him in.
Chapter 3 v1 says "Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made.."I wanna stop there for just a second. The hebrew word for "crafty" and the Hebrew word for "naked" have nearly the same meaning.We know that in the time of Adam and Eve to be naked was to be shameless.In other words "It wasnt no shame in the serpents game." Most people see the serpent as flat out deceiving and the enemy but did you know that the serpent was one of Gods good creatures.God created the serpent. When v1 explains that he was more crafty than any of the wild animals it merely explains ONE of the characters that GOD had given the serpent.So since we can associate the word crafty in hebrew with naked in hebrew and naked is associated with being shameless I myself like to think someone who is shameless is someone who's strong.I saw a quote that said "The enemy doesnt fight us because we are weak, he fights us because we are strong." this is true...However the enemy attacks at the point of our weakness to make us see less of our strengths and to convince us that the only thing we are is that weakness. If we focus on being grateful for our strengths we might then be reminded of Gods love and his plan for us and this will warrant obedience in the area of our weakness. Obedience in the area of our weakness will produce STRENGTH where we WERE weak.BUT...it all began with being Grateful.
   The serpent was a good creature until "the great deceiver" clothed himself as a serpent insinuated a falsehood and portrayed rebellion as clever. Today i wanna ask you...Who in your life is just a deceiver dressed up as the serpent?Its important that we seek God and ask him to Identify those "deceivers" in our lives and to prohibit them access into our Garden. Its also important that each day we reflect on the things we are grateful to God for. A grateful person will be stronger in the face of temptation..If you roll out of your bed and check twitter,your bank account,txt your gf/bf etc BEFORE thanking God you ought to recondition your mind because the devil will use those things that you put before God to take your focus off of the things that God Has given you..In other words God has promised you the ENTIRE GARDEN and if you forget to be grateful you can become vulnerable to attacks to eat at the ONE WRONG TREE...Dont eat at the wrong tree...tell him thank you today...thanks guys I hope it was a blessing to you and tomorrow we'll be talking about arming up for the war..the bible has given us ammunition to use against the enemy when tempted we just have to seek it and we'll talk about that tomorrow but thanks so much for your time.Be Blessed.and Dont Forget To Be Grateful