God For Teens

How to fight sin and temeptation

How to fight sin and temptation

As teenagers,  sometimes it might feel like temptation is constantly staring us in the face. Whether it be being tempted to spend more time on social media than you do conversing with God or even being tempted to abandon God Himself,  so that we can fit in with the popular people at school who aren't Christians, temptation is everywhere.

Let's be honest, fighting temptation is not the easiest thing in the world but here's the great thing about it, the Bible tells us exactly how to fight sin and temptation.

'Submit to God, resist the devil, and he WILL flee' -James 4;7

It's as simple as that. Resist your sin, focus on God and the urge to sin will go away. Crazy I know, but it's completely true. It might not happen instantly, in fact it might take a while but all you really have to do is ask the Holy Spirit to give you strength the to get past your temptation and ask God to take the sin out of your heart.

Here's another mind blowing thing

'Count it all Joy my brethren when you fall into various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience' James 1:2-3

You can actually get something out of your sins and trials. Patience. Whilst you wait for God to help take the sin out of your heart, have joy. Praise Him. Maybe He hasn't answered your prayers yet because He's trying to teach you how to be patient or something. God uses every trial and temptation we have to mold us and make us BETTER. SO SMILE.

One important thing though, don't ever think that God is the one tempting you

Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed -James 1:13-14

God might use your tempting to your advantage but never EVER think that God is tempting you

One of the most important ways to fight sin is to stop associating yourself with the thing that makes you sin. If it's your friends trying to tempt you to drink alcohol, get new friends because if your friends try to tempt you, they aren't really you friends. If your social media is tempting you to spend more time with it than God, delete your social media( trust me I tried it and my relationship what God grew SO MUCH)

Now let's recap
How to fight sin and temptation
1. Submit to God( like COMPLETELY, God deserves all of you not just 99%)
2. Be joyful ( trust me the devil hates it when you praise God)
3. Stay away from things that make you sin( it will make your life so much easier

I really hope this helped some of you. These are just a few of the things I do when I battle sin and temptation. Other helpful things are reading you bible (obviously) and listening to worship music( listen to higher by unspoken it really helps me)

Special thanks iorine for suggesting I do this. God bless you. If anyone has other suggestions of topics don't be shy to share

One last thing( I'm sorry if I'm rambling) but remember that Even Jesus went through temptation so you're not alone. He clung onto Gods word the whole time and you should to

Have a Great day 😊😊😊😊