Hey there and welcome back to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Today Rick continues in his series called

Connecting with God, the Lord's Prayer. In this series, Rick shows us what it means to be truly

spiritually connected to God and to each other through the power of God's love and God's word.

Okay, here's Pastor Rick with the final part of a message called the Prayer of Deliverance.

And then number five, this is a real key on the six steps on the path to escape.

I turn my attention elsewhere. I turn my attention elsewhere.

I change the direction of my thoughts. I refocus on something else. I shift my attention.

If you're watching something on TV you don't like, you don't sit there and go, I'm not going to listen, I'm not going to listen, I am not going to listen, I am not going to listen.

No, you just, poop, flip the channel.

That's all you need to do.

Temptation.

Here's the little secret to temptation.

Don't fight it.

Just refocus.

Write this down. Don't resist refocus whatever you have in your life that you resist you're just nailing it harder into your life whatever you resist

persists i'm not going to have another cigarette i'm not going to have another cigarette i'm not going to have another cigarette.

I'm not going to have another cigarette.

I'm not going to have another, I'm not going to take another drink.

Whatever you resist, persist.

The key is not, did you know that in the Bible not once are you told to resist temptation?

We are told to resist the devil, and that's the whole different issue.

That's another sermon.

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