Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

Notice we don’t watch to prevent temptation, as temptation is a part of our spiritual development, but we watch that we enter not into temptation (Matt. 26:41). This means to watch and pray that we do not enter through the door and perform the acts and actions that the tempter is throwing at us. By watching you will say, “I am not going there,” and by prayer you will sense the movement of the enemy before he arrives on your doorsteps. Watching and praying lead to the second important instruction. 2. Pray that you will not be led into temptation. One of the significant lines in the Lord’s Prayer, which Christ instructed us to pray, is: And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. —M ATTHEW 6:13, KJV When was the last time you prayed, “Lead me not into temptation, and deliver me from evil”? This line of the prayer may seem to be a contradiction when we read that God is not tempted with evil and does not tempt any man (James 1:13), and yet we read where the Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness to be “tempted of the devil” (Matt. 4:1). In Christ’s instance He was required to be tested with the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life and to overcome Satan’s testing by using the Scripture and resisting the adversary. The first Adam