Overcoming Temptations, Tests, and Trials

ZChurch service for November 12, 2022 See full service here

We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us! Are you struggling to experience that reality in areas of your life? In this message Pastor Larry shares how to overcome temptations, tests, and trials.

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Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

James 1:13-15 KJV 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

Psalm 139:1-4 O Lord, You have searched me and known me. 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. 3 You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.

2 Peter 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

John 1:16 And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.

Philemon 1:6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.

Matthew 4:1, 3 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

Mark 1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

Luke 4:13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.

Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Hebrews 2:18 KJV For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

Hebrews 2:18 AMP Because He Himself [in His humanity] has suffered in being tempted, He is able to help and provide immediate assistance to those who are being tempted and exposed to suffering.

James 1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience (perseverance, moving forward, putting one step in front of the other) 4 but let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Acts 16:25-26 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one\’s bands were loosed.

2 Corinthians 13:5-8 KJV 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

Ask yourself:

• Am I really in faith? Faith is believing what the Word says.
• Am I losing focus of who I am in Christ?
• Am I behaving wrong? Am I in unforgiveness? Am I thinking wrong? …believing wrong? …speaking wrong?
• Am I praying wrong? Pray in the Holy Ghost instead.

2 Corinthians 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.