Hey everyone, thanks for joining us here on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.

Today we're continuing with the series called Growing in the Seasons of Life.

And in these messages, Rick's going to share biblical wisdom that you need to live your best life,

no matter what stage you're in.

And now here's Rick with part two of a message called

The Season of Temptation. Now you need to call on God for help. Many of us don't call on God for help

because we use what we call willpower. And we think, you know, if I just tough it out, then willpower will

will power will make the day. But willpower doesn't work. Willpower works for a while,

but it doesn't work permanently. It's not the permanent solution. Oh yeah, you can

tough it out to do anything for a little while. But the whole time you're trying to change through willpower, you're under stress.

You see, inside of you is a basic, well, let's call it a automatic pilot.

And this automatic pilot is your natural tendency to fall for certain things,

certain sins, certain temptations, and weaknesses.

And just like a boat, if it had an automatic pilot, and if the automatic pilot was moving

the boat north like this, there are two things I can do. I can either change the automatic pilot,

or I can, by sheer willpower, grab the steering wheel of the boat and force it to turn around and go south.

Now, the whole time I'm forcing this boat to go south, I'm holding on the steering wheel,

I'm under tension because everything in the boat wants to go that direction by nature.

And so I'm holding on to this steering wheel, forcing by willpower the change in the boat, in the direction.

And finally, what happens is I get tired of the tension, and I let go, and I go off the diet.

Oh, you're listening.

Yeah. And I'm going to quit listening. Yeah.

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