“If we do not abide in prayer, we shall abide in cursed temptations. Let this, then, be another direction: abide in prayer, and that expressly to this purpose, that we “enter not into temptation.” Let this be one part of our daily contending with God-that he would preserve our souls, and keep our hearts and our ways, that we be not entangled; that his good and wise providence will order our ways and affairs, that no pressing temptation befall us; that he would give us diligence, carefulness, and watchfulness over our own ways. So shall we be delivered when others are held with the cords of their own folly.”
- John Owen (“Overcoming Sin and Temptation“)
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