{"id":12704,"date":"2026-06-14T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12704"},"modified":"2026-06-13T18:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:25:21","slug":"give-not-to-enticement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12704","title":{"rendered":"GIVE NOT TO ENTICEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong> Avoid the enticement of the devil so as not to become a victim of the devil.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Luke 4<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See in the Word of God to gain the presence of God.<br \/>A failure not to be occupied by the presence of God will have room to be occupied by the enticement of evil.<br \/>The weapon of evil is enticement to deceive for deception.<br \/>The master of deception that has been around long enough to draw one into the sin of destruction.<br \/>Jesus experienced the enticement of the devil, but could not become of the devil.<br \/><em><strong>Luke 4:1-4<\/strong><\/em> documents the failure of the devil in his enticement of Jesus:\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cThen Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward when they had ended, He was hungry. And the devil said to Him, \u201cIf You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.\u201d But Jesus answered him, saying, \u201cIt is written, \u2018Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Enticement to sway Jesus failed.<br \/>One filled by the Word of God will avoid sin.<br \/>Today, be warned and wise to know that if Jesus experienced enticement of the enemy, no man is above the cunning devil with enticement activity to lure man into sin.<br \/>King David, a man after the heart of God, could not escape but fell into sin.<br \/>Samson was blessed with strength by God, but could not avoid the enticement to become a victim of the devil.<br \/>Samson was a miracle child with special instructions from God, but not an excuse to escape the device of enticement.\u00a0<br \/>The Bible documents in\u00a0<em><strong>Judges 13:5, \u201cFor behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Samson ended his life blinded because he could not see the instruction of God to deliver him.\u00a0<br \/>As strong as Samson was, he became a victim of the enticement of the enemy when he failed to obey according to the Word of God.\u00a0<br \/>The enticement of the enemy brought down Samson from where God had placed him. The Book of\u00a0<em><strong>Judges 16:5\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>records,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cAnd the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, \u2018Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Samson could not avoid the cunning of the enticement of the enemy of man.\u00a0<br \/>God answers prayer today, pray and ask for the deliverance hand of God in every area of your life, so as not to become a victim of the enticement of the devil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Pray that you will not be a victim of evil devices.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE: Avoid the enticement of the devil so as not to become a victim of the devil.&nbsp; Luke 4 See in the Word of God to gain the presence of God.A failure not to be occupied by the presence of God will have room to be occupied by the enticement of evil.The weapon of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12704\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GIVE NOT TO ENTICEMENT<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12705,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions\/12705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}