Matthew 26:41<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWatch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s a battle that will never end on this side of eternity and that\u2019s the battle against seduction from the flesh life. Our flesh is weak and that\u2019s why it\u2019s essential that we fortify our spirit man lest the flesh becomes the traitor that lets the enemy into our camps. The spirit\u2019s willingness is not as important as the spirit\u2019s strength. To be willing and yet being unable to execute your willingness is irrelevant in the practical scheme of things. Wishing away temptations is also a wild-goose chase. Temptations will remain for as long as we live in the flesh, and the secret passage of entry into our lives will always be the weakness of the flesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If we are diligently prayerful and watchful, our spirits will be empowered to withstand the seductions from the flesh life. Satan is not our problem. Our real problem is the weakness of the flesh, and if we insist that the powers of the flesh are repeatedly crucified by Christ and in Christ, and if we progressively grow our spiritual inner content, then we are sure to walk in constant victory. Otherwise, we will easily fall into temptation and be slain by Satan through the flesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGrant me the strength, Oh Lord, to consistently build my inner life, so that the tempter will never have access to me through the weakness of my flesh. In Jesus\u2019 name. Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew 26:41 \u201cWatch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.\u201d There\u2019s a battle that will never end on this side of eternity and that\u2019s the battle against seduction from the flesh life. Our flesh is weak and that\u2019s why it\u2019s essential that we fortify our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-matthew"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Matthew.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4539,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions\/4539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}