Enticement

Dear Lord please be with us this day and may the Holy Spirit be with us in every thought and deed as we travel the paths of this day. Please guide and protect us from the traps and snares along our way that might entice us and entangle us in lusting to be popular with the world at the expense of virtues that we know to be righteous. Please show us opportunities to strengthen others who would be caught up by these enticements only to smother in the disappointment of the failure of false promises of happiness and grandeur. Help us please to find the paths that this day may bring us closer to Thy Kingdom, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen. 

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Ps 10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Ps 10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. 

Pr 10:28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

Lu 18:13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. 

Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Jas 4:5  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Jas 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.