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PREVENTION

Text : Psalms 119:11. 

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

 *Prevention they say is better than cure. Sin will ultimately lead to death, yet sin can be prevented.* 

Any wise man will do anything to prevent himself from any deadly disease, especially when such Prevention is in public domain.

The Bible is full of the records of mere men like you and I who by the wisdom of God lived and prevented themselves from sin.

Their stories were documented not so they could become tales by moonlight, but so we could be encouraged and learn how to live right.

One of such men was the man Joseph. Obviously, his story was such a popular one but its inherent lessons are indeed ageless.

As a young man who had been betrayed by his own blood brothers and sold into slavery, ordinarily,  he should be a bittered fellow. 

When Mrs Potiphar, tried to seduce him, it shouldn't really take much work before he would succumb, considering the fact that he has a lot to enjoy.

But Joseph found the courage to resist this temptation consistently to the very end. He was able to do this because he had learnt how to use sin's prevention before the temptation came.

There's no other prevention to sin opened to you as a child of God other than the word of God.

Psalms 119:11 says "your word I  have hid in my heart that I  might not sin against you".

Joseph told Potiphar's wife that how can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? 
Notice that he didn't say he would sin against Potiphar but against God. 

His intent was to be sure he's not offending God. It takes a man who has respect for God's law to shun sin.

 *When you have respect for God's laws, you will live above man's laws.*

 *Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for His seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.* 
 1Jn 3:9. Note that this man will not sin only because God's seed (word) remains in him.
 
Bible reading:Gen.39:1-23.

PRAYER FOCUS

1.) Father God, help me to abide in your word and cause your word to abide in me  very richly. 


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