No one is above temptation. It will come. So what do we do when it comes knocking?

Today I'll be sharing a few insights about temptation and how we can prove faithful when sin is

crouching at our door.

Welcome to the Sheproves Faithful Podcast, episode number 187, truth and encouragement to live

gospel-centered lives every day.

I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hi, everyone, welcome to the podcast.

My name is Lauren, and I'm so thankful you're listening today.

Summer is in full swing in our backyard,

and we have a peach tree. And this year, it has a bumper crop, which is exciting, but it also

means I've been picking off baby peaches in hopes of having good fruit at the end of the season

and that it won't tire out the tree because a few years ago we had a

bumper crop and I did not take any fruit off. I did not prune it at all. And we had hundreds of

peaches on our tree and then it just was so tired. It didn't produce any for like three years.

It was real tired. Kind of like a mom of tiny children. You're like, just need a few years of rest.

I love being a mom. Tiny children, it's just the truth. They just wear you off just like the

tree just had too many peach babies. Anyway, so I'm picking off the fruit today and my son asked

me why we had to take peaches off the tree. And it really does

seem counterintuitive and it's hard. You're like, oh, goodbye peach. You would have been so tasty.

But I got to talk to him about how we're like, Lord willing, we'll have healthier, bigger fruit

and future fruit. We're like we're thinking about the future with this tree. And then I got to tie it in with how God

prunes us to make us more fruitful. So it's been such a joy to study God's written word and a

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