Disciples Must Be Watchful And Praying

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: Disciples Must Be Watchful And Praying

TEXT: Matthew 26:41 says, “Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Our Lord Jesus Christ, in His last hour, taught His disciples something important: they needed to be alert and have a prayerful heart in their daily life.

By the grace of God, we are born again and are filled with the Holy Spirit. The “old man” within us is gone (he has been crucified with Christ) and we have become a “new man” in Christ.

However, even though we have become new men, we still have our flesh in us. Our new man’s desire is to please God. However, while the new man seeks heavenly things, the flesh’s desires are earthly achievements and material things. Because of our flesh, we will always have a “pull” and temptation to obey our fleshly desires and commit sin.
The apostle Paul, a mature man in God, is seen struggling in Romans 7:15: “For what I am doing, I do not understand, for I am not practicing what I would like to do but I am doing the very thing I hate.” He talks about his struggle with his flesh.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, the most spirit-filled man to have ever lived on this earth, asked his disciples to pray for him because while His spirit was willing to do the will of God, his flesh was weak. Staying alert, watching, and praying against satisfying the desires of our flesh should be integral parts of our everyday lives until we have taken our last breaths.

LET US PRAY
FATHER IN JESUS NAME, HELP US LORD TO OVERCOME EVERY FLESHY DESIRE IN JESUS NAME