From the song 'The Weakness In Me' by Keisha White:

Why do you come here when you know I got troubles enough?
Why do you call me when you know I cant answer the phone?
Make me lie when I don't want to
and make someone else some kind of unknowing fool
You make me stay when I should not.
Are you so strong or is the weakness in me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlGYSiym0us

"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say ’no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ’yes’ burning inside. The enemy of the ’best’ is often the ’good.’"
- Stephen Covey

"If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist."
- Tim Tebow, Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey: Young Reader's Edition

"I once faced a temptation that was so persistent and so overwhelming that I literally believed my whole world would go dark if I refused to give in to it," he said. "All I could do was scream to the Holy Spirit to keep me from it."
- Wesley Hill, Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality

"The Word of God has always been our best defense against Satan’s temptations..."
- Gotquestions.org, What are the keys to resisting temptation?
http://www.gotquestions.org/resisting-temptation.html

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How do you deal with temptation? Maybe the secret is in how you prepare for and react to temptation.

How difficult is it to resist temptation?......

"Temptation, temptation, temptation
I can't resist"
- From the song 'Temptation' by Diana Krall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J9bwNLRiJU

"The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there."
- Israelmore Ayivor

"A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in."
- C.S. Lewis

"You never know what you're made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I've given in to is to have one more slice."
- Donna Lynn Hope

"For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
- Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Do you believe that temptation is more of a problem for some people and not others? In other words, do you believe some people are easily tempted while others are not?

From the song 'Tempted To Touch' by Rupee:

I lose all control when I see you
Standing there in front of me,
Your style, your clothes, your hair
You fair woman, you look so sexy,
De way you wine and de way you dance
And de way that you twist and turn your waist,
Leaves me wanting, leaves me yearning
Leaves me feelin' for a taste.

Before the end of the night,
I wanna hold you so tight,
You know I want you so much,
And I'm so tempted to touch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziaQwqm7VkQ

“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”
― Will Rogers

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
― Mark Twain

“The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island 

“Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.”
― Steve Maraboli

MainMessageForToday
Temptation causes people to sin.

7 Deadly Sins:
http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/beliefs/the_seven_deadly_sins.htm

"These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren."
- Holy Bible (KJV), Proverbs 6:16-19

Theme for the week 2/28 - 3/5: Temptation, which follows last week's theme Doing Good Rather Than Evil.